ACRL Chapters Council

Dear Colleagues,

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 to implement advocacy in their daily job activities. This survey is an extension of the February webinar included in that Chapter Council Membership Meeting (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iqER9p0QVDtp--pnj-tT93GcxMs1JfxNhi5PWmaqyFY/edit?usp=sharing. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iqER9p0QVDtp--pnj-tT93GcxMs1JfxNhi5PWmaqyFY/edit?usp=sharing">Leveraging Our Library Ecosystems to Communicate Our Value slides), and will provide preparation for a second webinar in Fall 2025.

To this group, 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 "Advocacy Resources." http://www.ala.org/yalsa/advpcacy. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/advpcacy"> www.ala.org/yalsa/advocacy; AASL, "What is Advocacy," http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/definitions. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/definitions"> www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/definitions) That the definition here comes from YALSA and AASL is further illustration of how the Library Ecosystem can work in concert to strengthen all library advocacy.

The survey is found here: https://forms.gle/FJmpNmUuSgZ5r3wH9. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://forms.gle/FJmpNmUuSgZ5r3wH9"> https://forms.gle/FJmpNmUuSgZ5r3wH9

Please help us with your fully anonymous and individual response. It will take less than 10 minutes (mostly check boxes).

The survey will close on Sept. 5.

Best,

Leslin