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 * Helpful Links for the librarian who wants to do more: **

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=__Not sure where to start?__= Here's a handy pdf with tips on how to get your own advocay plan underway: [] For more information from this resource, go here: [] Or watch this helpful video:

**__Library Advocacy tips from eduscapes__**
[] Found on the "School Library Media Specialist" section on the eduscapes website.

[|http://eduscapes.com/sms/advocacy/promotion.html]
This site offers great suggestions on how to begin promotions for your library, how to market and what to market and getting your message to the masses. There are some great resources for further reading as well as a large list of Websites to explore promotion further.

__**Collaborative Planning**__
http://www.iowa-city.k12.ia.us/library/About/Collaboration.htm Good site from an Iowa district that gives information about the jobs of principals, librarian, and teachers in promoting collaboration within the school. Also includes collaborative planners for elementary, middle, and high schools as well as other relevant information (i.e.roles of the teacher-librarian). Posted by Jim Goffred

Principal and Teacher Librarian Collaboration
http://www.cal-webs.org/handouts07/Principal.pdf Allison Zmuda presented this powerpoint at the "Celebrate a Winning Team" meeting in November 2007. It is a great overview of why collaboration with the librarian is so important (which we librarians know!) It also gives some suggestions for improving collaboration in you school.

**Personal Public Relations:**
http://www.memoweb.org/conference/2007fallhandouts/GarlieMary.pdf Increasing the library's visibility in the school doesn't have to be difficult. This website offers a list of practical suggestions for increasing your visibility within the school. Includes suggestions such as posting your library standards and inviting people to hold meetings in the library.

Resources for School Librarians
http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/promote.html This website offers a collection of links to helpful online resources for librarians.

Marketing Your Library
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/marketing/ Gale Group offers free resources to librarians. In those free resources they include a link full of tips for marketing your library. This site includes downloadable bookmarks for a "get connected" or a "Find Yourself in the library" campaign.

**ALA's @ your library campaign**
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/advocacy/publicawareness/campaign@yourlibrary/schoollibrary/schoollibrary.cfm This handy, downloadable guide offers help with all aspects of marketing your library.There's the [|advocacy toolkit], sample [|slogans], downloadable marketing [|graphics], and a brochure to help your principal plan for the library while determining how the budget will be spent.