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Library Advocacy & Promotion

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Resources in this category:

Friends of Libraries USA
http://www.folusa.org/
Provides programs and publications to groups teaching citizens how to develop local library Friends organizations for fundraising, advocacy and promotion of libraries.
Library and Research Center (LARC) Fact Sheets
http://www.ala.org/library/larcfact.cfm
Fact sheets on topics like number of libraries in the U.S., building new libraries, combined libraries, and the largest libraries.
NYSERNet
http://www.nysernet.org/
NYSERNet is a nonprofit organization which facilitates networking technology and training for New York State research and education institutions, including libraries and museums.
OLC Diversity Awareness and Resources Committee
http://www.olc.org/diversity/
A resource maintained by the Ohio Library Council offering numerous diversity-related educational and service-oriented links, with topics including best practices, bibliography, children's services, and language resources.

What is the IPL?

The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web.
Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL!
Here are some of the partners in the IPL Consortium. A complete list is found on the IPL Consortium page.

The iSchool at Drexel Florida State University College of Information University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science Rutgers School of Communication and Information Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences Syracuse University School of Information The Information School - University Of Washington

The Internet Public Library is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology,
with major support from the College of Information at Florida State University.

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