A California Library Association four-part highly-interactive series of online Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training sessions kicks off on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 and continues on the second Wednesday of each month through December 2021.
Session 1, “The California Library Advocacy Landscape: Introduction to Advocacy,” is scheduled to run from 10 am – noon PT. It provides participants an opportunity to work with seasoned library advocates in surveying a variety of approaches to advocacy; introduces them to some of the key library-advocacy organizations; helps them understand how to reach out to library supporters and elected officials, and includes a brief primer on dealing with opposition to their ballot initiatives and other advocacy efforts.
Session facilitators include:
- Jayanti Addleman, Director of Library Services, Hayward Public Library; CLA President; and member of CLA’s Advocacy and Legislative Committee
- Deborah Doyle, Chair of the Sonoma County Library Commission and member of CLA’s Advocacy and Legislative Committee
- Mike Eitner, Deputy Director of the Solano County Library and member of CLA’s Advocacy and Legislative Committee
- Paul Signorelli, CLA Library Advocacy Training Project Manager and author of Change the World Using Social Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
Registration for the first session, free to members of the California library community, is currently underway at https://www.cla-net.org/
events/EventDetails.aspx?id= 1551820&group=. Information regarding subsequent sessions is available on the California Library Association Community Calendar at https://www.cla-net.org/
events/event_list.asp. The Ursula Meyer Advocacy Fund Training Series 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.
California Library Association’s Series on Advocacy
