A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building

by Kathleen de la Peña McCook

Book Overview

This volume challenges librarians to demand a place at the community planning and development table. Describing the experiences and insights of librarians who have blazed trails of community... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838907881
• ISBN13: 9780838907887
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Librarians Networking Guide

The author challenges librarians everywhere to get involved early and often in community planning and development activities. She shows how to build a grassroots campaign, strengthen the library's connections in the community by forming powerful partnerships, become involved in policy making early, and promote the library's tangible assets. (summary by South TX Library System) Librarians need to work on these partnerships and not just assume everyone in the community values their library. I personally have seen it pay off, when other agencies call and ask you to be a part of their grant project or want to give your library something. The connection must be there in the first place or they won't think of the library for this.