[WLA-All] Fwd: [alacro-l] Rural and Small Library Advocacy tools

[Erin Kinney]

>>> "Don Wood" <dwood at ala.org> 10/23/2007 1:56 PM >>>
A Small but Powerful GUIDE to Winning Big Support for Your Rural Library reflects the responses to stated advocacy needs of small rural librarians, with clearly stated strategies, for self-advocacy and resources with the Association and elsewhere. It is the result of support from ALA members, members of the Association for Rural and Small Librarians (ARSL) and the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS), and others who responded to 1) a 2003 survey of advocacy needs and strategies, and 2) a solicitation for success stories from these same librarians. 
 
The Small but Powerful ONLINE TOOLKIT to winning Big Support for Your Rural Library http://www.ala.org/ala/olos/oloscommittees/rnt/ruralnative.htm also serves as a reflection to these responses with actual tools and downloadable templates to support these strategies. 

 
Both of these popular documents are accessible through downloads at  

http://www.ala.org/ala/olos/aboutolos/oloscommittees/rnt/advocacy.htm 

After an initial printing of 10,000 in September 2006, more are now available for sharing with small library staffs, boards of trustees and other stakeholders at olos at ala.org, the American Library Association's Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS).  

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Satia Orange
Director
Office for Literacy & Outreach Services 
American Library Association
40 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312-280-4295
sorange at ala.org 
http://www.ala.org/olos