Good Ideas for Public Libraries
For me, library advocacy means celebrating achievements, asking tough questions, and sharing good ideas. I’ve tried to do that here. The blog archive has a number of essays, images, references and kudos that celebrate the contributions of American public libraries.
Here are the tough questions and good ideas I’ve come up with so far…
Tough Questions
- Libraries nurture citizens, not consumers
- Who is the Vivian Schiller for public libraries?
- Asking the right questions about public libraries
- Running our public libraries like a business
- A ‘do or die’ decade for public libraries
- We’ll get by with a little help from our ?
Marketing
- Libraries – protect that brand
- Are public libraries glorified babysitting services?
- Hmmm… if libraries remove computers
- What’s my social contract with public libraries?
- Idea for a national library campaign and Sing like The Honey Bees
- Photo Fridays
Funding
- An Inflection Point for American Public Libraries
- Libraries, help lighten our ecological footprint
- The actual cost of my library
- Better supporting materials for library funding
- Funding what we value
Services
- Libraries as hubs of civic discourse
- An Inflection Point for American Public Libraries
- Librarians moving up the value chain
- Being Better Than Free
- My town/library/school dream
- Order tracking & event search
- Fast food and haute cuisine
Process Improvement
