Format: Webinar, original date November 7, 2019
Hosted by: WebJunction and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries
Length: 1 hour
If advocacy is a scary word to you, this webinar may change your feelings about it. Advocating for increased support for your library is an action that promotes the library’s success and contributes to your own enhanced ability to do your job well, with improved resources. Join us for this webinar to help your library begin to build advocacy into your everyday routines. Learn about inexpensive ideas and activities, how to tap into the Friends of the Library and other groups, and how to figure out what matters to “them” (i.e. funding partners, community, grantors). Before you know it, you will be advocating like a natural.
Presented by: Lisa M. Shaw and Kate Brunner
Format: Webinar, original date August 13, 2015
Hosted by: WebJunction and Public Library Association
Length: 1.5 hours
This webinar highlights free, newly revised downloadable materials for public libraries distilled from landmark advocacy and awareness-building programs. Learn about two resources: updated curriculum from Turning the Page including tools, worksheets and training materials you can adapt locally to grow your team’s advocacy knowledge and abilities; and a new online guide that walks through each step of planning and carrying out a local library awareness campaign modeled after Geek the Library. Hear from library leaders who have put these ideas to work to build advocacy know-how, increase staff confidence, and engage more deeply with the community. Whether you are looking to get started, or seeking to maintain momentum following a recent advocacy effort, join us to discuss strategies to take your library to the next level.
Presented by: Lance Werner, Cathay Keough, Ava Ehde, Barbara McGary, Julie Meredith, and Mary Lou Carolan
Format: Webinar, original date April 25, 2017
Hosted by: WebJunction and and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries
Length: 1 hour
Advocacy efforts to sustain funding for your library are crucial in the best of times. Challenging times call for new ways to engage and activate advocates for your library. Level up your political savviness by taking lessons from successful campaigns. Whether or not you have a library ballot measure on the horizon, learn how to put these proven techniques to work for your library funding requests. Explore innovative options to energize, focus and build your skills and confidence. You’ll come away with actionable tips and tools to market your library to garner a wide base of support from your community constituents.
Presented by: John Chrastka and Carrie Andrew
Format: Webinar, original date June 18, 2024
Hosted by: WebJunction
Length: 1 hour
Storytelling is a vital strategy for communicating impact and justifying
future investments. Powerful and effective stories allow us to create a
roadmap that weaves together information and emotion. This webinar will
provide an orientation to storytelling that centers cultural humility
while leveraging storytelling dynamics, including how to practice and
refine an impactful story with a live audience. Participants will learn
the techniques of story construction based on three classic narrative
structures, with roots in folklore and narratology,
and explore examples of data stories told by and about libraries. This
is an opportunity to build confidence in the ability to recognize and
craft a meaningful and memorable story.
Format: Webinar, original date January 13, 2021
Hosted by: WebJunction and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries
Length: 1 hour
Rally the troops, consolidate the message, and get it out there! These common and important steps are all part of the response when there’s a crisis challenging the library. But what can we do the rest of the time, before a crisis arises? Using both outward and inward facing tools, there are simple steps that boards and library staff can integrate into their communication processes, to be better prepared for unknown changes. Learn about these tools and how they can set the stage for dealing more effectively with any crisis your library faces in the future.
Presented by: Lori Fisher
