Dear Colleagues,
The ACRL Chapters Council is working in partnership with the ALA COLA Ecosystem Initiative to better understand the advocacy needs of academic librarians in leveraging their individual ecosystem to develop useful tools that would assist ACRL members in their advocacy efforts. See more details below:
Are you curious about advocacy thinking across academic libraries? Could you offer a few minutes of time to answer a few questions to help us understand what the community of academic librarians think? What would help you develop stronger advocacy for your campus? How could you leverage the broader library community? This survey hopes to begin to answer some of these questions. Please answer from your personal experience. This is NOT meant to reflect official institutional thinking, but rather front-line library staff observations.
Advocacy is "an ongoing process of building partnerships so that others will act for and with you, turning passive support into educated action for the library program." (YALSA "http://www.ala.org/yalsa/advocacy. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/advocacy">Advocacy Resources." ; AASL, "https://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/definitions. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/definitions">What is Advocacy?")
The ACRL Chapters Council is working in partnership with the ALA COLA Ecosystem Initiative to better understand the advocacy needs of academic librarians in leveraging their individual ecosystem to develop useful tools that would assist ACRL members in their advocacy efforts.
The survey will close on Monday October 20.
Thanks for considering.
Leslin
Leslin H. Charles
Instructional Design Librarian
Liaison to the Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
James Dickson Carr Library
75 Avenue E
Piscataway, NJ 08854
848-445-4432 (O)