It’s time for Advocacy Alchemy!!

Each week we will share one tip – usually something simple and easy to do – that will help you build your advocacy skills. Why Alchemy? Because libraries are wonderful and not enough people know about the breadth and depth of library work. When we mix together all the different small things we are doing to advocate, the result in library support will be worth its weight in gold!

To be a good member of the library profession you need to be advocating for yourself, for your organization, and for your profession. It does not matter one single bit what job you have, what your training in libraries may be, or what kind of library you are in. If you are in a library, we want to help you advocate!

You can implement each tip as it comes out, or feel free to browse back through these tips to help build up your skills and help your library!

This week we have a very simple advocacy task.

Go find someone who does not use a library – any type of library, or just your type of library. Tell them about a cool/wonderful/fun/exciting thing happening in your library. It can be a program, a service, materials – anything. Just go tell them.

It’s so simple, it feels like nothing. But literally, everything you do to help spread the word about libraries, and the cool stuff we have there, is good.

And when we all go out this week and talk to one person who doesn’t usually use the library, and tell them about a neat thing in the library? Well – that’s just going to be a wonderful bouquet of new people who know about library stuff!

Use #LibrariesTransform across social media, and share this week’s advocacy success!