Advocacy

Blog entry: Raise Funds. Raise Awareness

If your library holds fundraisers, you may want to consider having your next one be a green fundraiser. Initially marketed to schools, churches, charities, and sport teams, there is no reason libraries can’t join the bandwagon....

Posted August 13, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More

Feature: Reaching Undergrads: Recruitment via Internship

As interns, undergraduate students can cultivate a career in library and information science and technology

A woman shelving books.
By Sara D. Smith

When Noelle Rader, a junior at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, applied for a student job in the library’s music and dance department, she was mostly looking to earn some money to pay rent and...

Posted August 10, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More

Blog entry: Pollution: Scoping Out a Broader Definition

Know the Facts poster. Artist unknown, 1941, Silkscreen on board. Courtesy of th

Normally, when one thinks of pollution, the mind immediately thinks of air, water, or noise pollution. But what about adding inaccuracies to the list? Unlike facts, inaccuracies spawn faulty conclusions and misguided direction....

Posted August 10, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More

PIO News Release: Tips to green your routine, behind the scenes drama at Stephen Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio, I Love My Librarian Award featured  on @ your library website

at your library - The Campaign for America's Libraries

CHICAGO - An article by Rebecca Walden on realistic and surprisingly simple tips you can use to live sustainably and a story about the innovative new Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, which opened...

Posted August 10, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More

PIO News Release: Tips to green your routine, behind the scenes drama at Stephen Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio, I Love My Librarian Award featured  on @ your library website

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CHICAGO - An article by Rebecca Walden on realistic and surprisingly simple tips you can use to live sustainably and a story about the innovative new Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, which opened...

Posted August 10, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More

PIO News Release: Tips to green your routine, behind the scenes drama at Stephen Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio, I Love My Librarian Award featured  on @ your library website

San Fermines, Pamplona, Spain (matadors at a bull)1952 by Henri Cartier-Bresson

CHICAGO - An article by Rebecca Walden on realistic and surprisingly simple tips you can use to live sustainably and a story about the innovative new Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, which opened...

Posted August 10, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More

News Story: Camden City Libraries May be Rescued by the County System

Within four days of the Camden (N.J.) Free Public Library board voting August 5 to shutter the entire three-branch system and empty the facilities of their collections and equipment by the end of December, Camden Mayor Dana L. Redd...

Posted August 9, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More

PIO News Release: Friends groups: Fill out a survey for a chance to win with ALTAFF

PHILADELPHIAALTAFF is conducting a survey for Friends groups at...

Posted August 5, 2010 | Comments:  | Read More