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Need a Task? Make a Quick Library Advocacy Video!

Elevator Pitch - The Noun Project

We want to put together a collection of videos. And not just any videos. We want to share information about libraries!

You are probably home anyway, so this is a great time to grab your phone and make a quick video.

And what are you going to say?

We want you to do an elevator pitch for libraries!

Spend 30 to 60 seconds, and tell us why you love libraries. Or something great about libraries. Or your very best story about your own library.

We just want you to quickly distill something great about libraries, and tell us about it!

Here are a few resources you can check out to get other ideas about elevator pitches. But the main idea is easy: in a concise way, make your point. And here that point is “Here is something great about libraries!”

check out this example of an advocacy elevator pitch!

We will put these video onto our YouTube page, all collected together. Then all library people can point to this collection of videos, to share a bunch of viewpoints about how great libraries are for their communities!

  • Need to tell a stakeholder how valuable your library is?
  • Need to convince a funder to keep funding your work?
  • Need to show your patrons about all your great stuff?

We want you to use this (future!) archive of videos for all of these uses!

You guys are in libraries. You work there every day. You know how wonderful and valuable they can be.

And now we want you to tell other people!

No need to make these look fancy – though of course if you want to, that’s fine too. We aren’t going to edit them. (Though, we will watch them, to be sure nothing gets posted that is not about libraries.)

You can share your videos with us at our administrative email: admin@cmle.org. Here are some directions on sharing videos using Google Drive. (We are new at videos! So have some patience while we get these things organized on our end.)