Advocacy

Advocacy Ideas and Templates to spark your creativity or just give you a push.

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Newsletter Articles: Sample articles from various libraries. Grab one and customize it for your school. Try to get an article in every school newsletter.

Year End Reports Samples: Several librarians have talked about the power of creating a simple year end report to highlight the things that occured in the library. Sample reports are available which you may use as templates. Also check out [|Doug Johnson's] site. He has an entire section on budgeting that includes information on how powerful this type of communication can be for advocating for your budget. Click on Presentations, Workshops and Handouts.

Library Brochures

Signage

Activities: Month By Month Celebrations: Who knew there was a national Jelly Bean day???
 * Bagels and Books, Lunch with the Librarian etc. ||  || Poem in Your Pocket Day ||   || READ Posters ||
 * Turnagain Read-a-Thon (with instructions) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

Advocacy Ideas from Inservice August 18, 2008

• Lunch with your librarian –make soup and invite teachers to join you in the library during lunch. Here you can ask for their input for materials, how you can help them in their classes and what they are teaching. • PTA – PTSO – get involved join, participate in monthly meetings get on the agenda and become important present information keep them informed on what is happening in the library and your needs. • Curriculum Meetings • Curriculum Committees • Read-a-thons for money for books for the library • Attend grade level meetings in your school • Attend department meetings in your school • Meet with teachers during team time – middle school • Involve yourself in new teacher orientation • Have a yearly theme where students, parents, community members and teachers can bring in items to enhance this theme through displays or books or presentations • Brochure that presents what you do for your teachers • Introduce new books in collaboration with your principal – books and biscotti • Choose an area of the library to enhance for the year • Library Dolls – Traveling dolls with a notebook that says where they have been and what they did while they were there. • Regular additions to the school newsletter • Easels showing what is happening – Now showing in the library – new books, student work or class projects • Utilize the display cases in and around your library for students, teachers and parents to display materials • What’s happening in your library – Displays newsletters, brochures, morning announcements • Webpages • Wikis • Collection Development – yearly theme where students bring in stuffed animals and books and things to enhance this subject • Read-ins twice an year during conferences utilizing the PTA to assist with this • Monthly meetings with your principal to keep them informed with what you are doing, want to do and what you can do. • Become involved in staff meetings introduce new activities to your staff • Share lists of books you pull for teachers with your principal • Use the daily announcements to keep students and staff informed on what is happening in the library. • Library class of the month – specialists pick a class of the month – adds motivation and competition • Fundraising ideas – Book fairs, Barnes and Noble Book fair, Dairy Queen Day, McDonalds day support for the day activities gives a percentage of proceeds to your school or library • Birthday Book Club – parents pay for book at beginning of the year students come in and choose the book they want put their name plate in it and they get to read it first on their birthday • Get involved in district activities with other departments • Involvement on library committees • Books and Crumbs (Books and Brownies) - invite teachers to view new books and share cookies or brownies • Start a coffee club for your school