Every day is Advocacy Day…
…and everyone can be a library advocate! Spread the word about the vital role libraries play in our communities. Let decision-makers at the local, state, and national levels know what libraries need to continue their important and necessary work.
Library Advocacy Day is Wednesday, February 5, 2025.
Watch the Trustee Handbook Book Club Session on Advocacy (January 22, 2025)
Here’s what advocacy can look like:
- Visit and use your local library
- Join your library’s Friends group
- Serve on your library’s Board of Trustees
- Enroll as a New York Library Association Library Advocate and receive e-mail alerts when your action is needed to act on behalf of libraries
- Learn about libraries and understand their needs and history
- Learn about New Yorkers for Better Libraries, a political action committee working to elect officials who support library interests
- Donate funds, materials or time to your local library
Advocacy 101
- American Library Association – Getting Started with Advocacy
- American Library Association-Advocacy and Issues
- Library Advocate’s Handbook (ALA) 2008
- Advocacy In Action: Local Library Awareness Campaigns [Webjunction]
- Turning the Page: Building Your Library Community Online Advocacy Training [PLA]
- Advocacy Action Plan Workbook (2009)
- United for Libraries: A Power Guide for Successful Advocacy (2013)
- The Small But Powerful Toolkit to Winning Support for Your Rural Library (ALA)
- READCON: A Curriculum for Library Readiness, Advocacy, and Community Empowerment During Challenging Conditions (2025)
National
- Advocacy, Legislation & Issues [ALA]
- ilovelibraries.org
- United for Libraries
- ALA Allied Professional Association [ALA-APA]
State
- New York Library Association Advocacy Center
- New Yorkers for Better Libraries Political Action Committee
Local
Updated January 9, 2025 FL