Library leaders have been trained to "do more with less" for so long that it’s become a virtue. Though talking about budgets is a challenge, library staff need better funding to provide the public with needed services and expertise. If your budget is stuck, and your board, staff and stakeholders are having a hard time talking about new taxes or levies, this webinar can help. Please join us for real-world, practical, actionable advice on how to overcome local political problems, negative feelings, and unmotivated stakeholders, to move your library toward a more financially secure future.

This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries and EveryLibrary.

Presented by: John Chrastka, Executive Director, EveryLibrary; Lee Hallberg, Executive Director, Mancos Public Library, CO; and James Ochsner, Director of Library Services, Sutter County Library, CA

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Related Resources and Links

• Association for Rural & Small Libraries
• EveryLibrary
• action.everylibrary.org including Training Guides
• Build Your Political Literacy Skills for Advocacy, 2017 webinar
• From Awareness to Funding, OCLC, ALA and PLA (2018)
• Libraries 2016, Pew Research Center
• From Awareness to Funding (2008), OCLC
• Aspen Institute: Rising to the Challenge and Action Guide for Re-Envisioning Libraries