Producing Results Through Sustainable Library Advocacy (Advocacy 101)

Thursday, June 1, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM PT

Location: A8

Paul Signorelli

Library Advocacy Training Project Manager
California Library Association
Deborah Doyle

Director
CA Public LIbrary Advocates
CM

Crystal Miles

Public Services Manager
Sacramento Public Library
Nichole Brown

Treasurer
California Library Association
Essraa Nawar

Coordinator of diversity and development
Chapman University

Advocacy is an essential skill and passion for you and other members of California’s library community at all levels. This highly-interaction session, facilitated by experienced advocates active within the California Library Association, is designed to help you hone your advocacy skills to the highest possible level. You’ll hear stories highlighting key traits and skills displayed by successful library advocates; learn how successful advocates combine effective storytelling, fundraising, marketing, social media, and collaboration skills to create the most dynamic, diverse coalitions possible to provide measurable positive change within the communities they serve; and have plenty of time to find ways to apply, to your own work, what you are learning.. The session will conclude with an exercise designed to help you develop a first-draft action plan you can use in your current advocacy efforts. (Please note updated list of presenters: Nichole Brown, Deborah Doyle, Essraa Nawar, Crytal Miles, and Paul Signorelli.)