GODORT (Government Documents Round Table)

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The mission of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) is to (1) To provide a forum for discussion of problems, concerns, and for exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents; (2) to provide a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase availability, use, and bibliographic control of documents; (3) to increase communication between documents librarians and other librarians; (4) to contribute to the extension and improvement of education and training of documents librarians.

Learn more about GODORT on the ALA website.

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Advocating in a Tough Economy: An Advocacy Institute Workshop

  • 1.  Advocating in a Tough Economy: An Advocacy Institute Workshop

    Posted Dec 06, 2010 10:04 PM

    Advocating in a Tough Economy Program at Midwinter Meeting to focus on rebranding, Library Snapshot Day

     Reserve your spot today for “Advocating in a Tough Economy: An Advocacy Institute Workshop” during ALA’s 2011 Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, California. The program will take place on Friday, January 7, 2011, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Advanced registration is priced at $50 and ends on December 29.  

    Attendees will learn how to advocate through repositioning or “branding” their libraries to meet the needs of patrons with Kerry Bierman, Director of Community Relations & Development, Columbus Metropolitan Library. A panel discussion will follow, focusing on how libraries of all types can reposition their offerings. Panelists include Dr. Camila Alire, ALA Past President & Dean Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University, Deborah Doyle, Friends of San Francisco Public Library, Advocacy Projects Manager, and Sara Kelly Johns, American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Past President & Library Media Specialist, Lake Placid Central School District. Michael Borges, Chair, Advocacy Training Subcommittee & Executive Director, New York Library will moderate.

    The workshop will also highlight the 2011 ALA Library Snapshot Day initiative. A founder of the initiative, Peggy Cadigan, Associate State Librarian for Innovation & Communication, New Jersey State Library, will discuss how to use snapshot day as an advocacy tool.  Rob Banks, Topeka & Shawnee County (KS) Library, will discuss how he has integrated snapshot day results and statistics to improve messaging to decision-makers

    For more information and to register, please visit, http://www.ala.org/advocacyinstitute. Those who register for the Nuts & Bolts for Friends and Foundations or Trustees will save $25 off Institute registration.

    Advocating in a Tough Economy: An Advocacy Institute Workshop is co-sponsored by the California Library Association. It is presented in partnership with the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) and organized by the Advocacy Training Subcommittee of the ALA Committee on Library Advocacy, in conjunction with the ALA Office for Library Advocacy.