Guide to Building Support for Your Tribal Library

Growing your Tribal Library

Ongoing advocacy is important for any library, whether you’re at the very beginning stages of developing a tribal library or you’ve already done the work to develop, maintain, and extend library services for the Native people of your community. With limited resources, how do you get the support you need to continue to meet the needs of the people and the tribe? This guide is designed to help you and the people who believe in the power of the tribal library become successful advocates.

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Toolkit Contents

• Advocacy
• Who are Library Advocates?
• Four Ways to Win Support
• Getting Started with an Official Campaign: Steps to Success
• Telling Your Library's Story
• Sample Message Sheet and Basic Tools
• Resources
• Additional Resources on Delicious

Ordering Printed Copies

Printed copies of "Guide to Building Support for Your Tribal Library" are also available for ALA members. Orders for under 20 toolkits will be sent free of charge (please include ALA personal or organizational membership number); for orders of 20 and over, the charge is $.50/toolkit plus a $7 flat fee for shipping.

Contact

For more information on this toolkit and other resources from ALA on library service to non-English speakers, please contact:

ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-2798
800-545-2433, ext. 4294
olos@ala.org