Wednesday, December 8, 2021

10 am – noon PT

CLA Members:           $25

CLA Non-members:   $35

Full-time Students:     $10

Registration is now closed

Description:

Libraries and the communities they serve face a number of challenges requiring top-notch advocacy skills. This two-hour highly-interactive session, part of a new “Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training” series, offers an opportunity to explore five of those challenges—broadband access, lifelong learning; 21^st-century literacy, supporting diversity and equity, and promoting intellectual freedom—with an eye toward opportunities to become involved in advocacy efforts to foster support for each of those challenges.

Goals:

Upon completing the session, you will be able to:

• Describe at least two key contemporary challenges that are attracting the attention of library advocates
• Name at least three advocates or library-advocacy organizations that can serve as resources for you in your advocacy efforts responding to contemporary challenges
• Cite at least one action you will take, as a library advocate, within the week following your participation in this session

Session Facilitators: 

Paul Signorelli, CLA Library Advocacy Training Project Manager and author of Change the World Using Social Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

Others to be announced

About the Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training Series

This program, the fourth of four monthly online sessions organized and to be offered initially through the Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training Series from September through December 2021, honors the memory of Ursula Meyer, 1977-78 CLA President, California Library Hall of Fame inductee, longtime director of the Stockton-San Joaquin Public Library, and fierce advocate for library services and intellectual freedom. The Ursula Meyer Fund was established to provide for the training of librarians in all stages of their careers, and library supporters, in political advocacy and political action, in honor of Ursula’s belief that librarians need effective political skills to advocate for library support at all levels of government.