CSLA+Advocacy+Resources

This page will serve as a central, one-spot place to collect CSLA advocacy tools and actions.
CSLA page on the foundation: @http://www.csla.net/index.php/foundation

California Campaign for Strong School Libraries: http://librarycampaign.csla.net/

Bookmark series (free downloads):[| Bookmarks]

Product sales: @http://www.cafepress.com/csla

Best Sellers campaign: [] AND []

Podcast stories: [] AND @http://circulatethis.posterous.com/

Library advocate blog: @http://advocate4libraries.csla.net/ CSLA teacher librarian video: @http://youtu.be/QtFkeZPGRro

CSLA Library advocacy posters in two proportions:

Little advocacy "flyers":

@http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy []> CSLF is a member @http://www.ala.org/advocacy/ [|http://www.ala.org/united/powerguide] ALA videos: [] @http://www.ifla.org/alp @http://www.iasl-online.org/advocacy/ @http://www.iste.org/about-iste/advocacy Article and report: [] [|http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/scholastic/administrator_2014spring/#/22] @http://www.olaweb.org/oasl-hb-2586-and-continuous-improvement-planning [] Letter: @http://www.slj.com/2014/07/advocacy/letter-to-policy-makers-closing-school-libraries-does-not-make-sense/ [] South Carolina: http://slmimpact.wikispaces.com/Advocacy New Jersey: @http://www.njasl.org/page-1781787 AASL: @http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm/2015/showcase
 * Other advocacy sites:**

Principals Know: School Librarians are the Heart of the School: @http://youtu.be/bihGT7LoBP0 [] [] @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTtEc4_Tu4s @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN-snhOEDKw @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvPc2QjYe4k @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvPc2QjYe4k Michigan: [] Iowa: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEE_Wpz8gw New Jersey: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTslgjLEzLw Libraries Matter: Use Videos to Advocate for Libraries: Access the full video playlist:@http://www.districtdispatch.org/librariesmatter @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eilZJp3_h8 @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2pu8nsUtCQ @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWUUiDQ2rDE Power of Books (ALA has its own YouTube channel) Principals Know: School Librarians Are the Heart of the School @http://youtu.be/bihGT7LoBP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPOjqchFX18&feature=youtu.be Infographics: [] 
 * Library-friendly videos:**

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 * Relations with Bookdealers:**
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These resources support the Strong School Libraries Campaign:
===Campaign has to provide evidence that strong school libraries make a difference/have an impact/add value:=== - facts and fictures - case studies - stories - __#|surveys__

Projects should include:
- target audience - actionable deliverable - performance measure

**Grant eligibility:**
- Point person must be a current CSLA member - grant idea must be endorsed by a CSLA committee - grant must involve a partnership with a non-school organization/entity (e.g., LA Public Library., Calif. Arts Council, SF Chronicle) - grant must be used in a manner that follows the CSLF mission statement and promotes school libraries

We should build upon existing products:
Best Sellers: DB of guest speakers CSLA student posters: public awareness posters, images for publications, traveling exhibits Podcasts: add to websites, for voicemail messages, radio announcements, PSAs

Ideas for actionable grant proposals -- add your own ideas:
- Use of CSLA student posters: traveling exhibits - (No more ssh!): School Libraries Talk: ways stakeholders, including the public, can share their school library stories -- phone in, Tweet, record on computers, which can then be stored as a database repository to PR use - Videos (or animoto types) of model school libraries:to put on YouTube, websites, library blogs, - Public recognition of school libraries that meet the model school library standards

Hand out bookmarks, buttons, cafepress items.... give them a list of 'great reads' Include the parent brochure on why their kids need strong school libraries
 * -** __#|Sign up__ to have a booth at a local arts & crafts or other local festival.

- __#|taxi signs__ in Sacramento: 'strong school libraries build lifelong learners" - Los Angeles: 'does your school have a strong school library?"

- Traveling exhibit of winning CSLA student posters. - Samples of student done thanks to school libraries - Graphic novelists/artists speakers "tour" (within geographic area): Lesley has an "in" into that industry sector - More parent __#|training__: digital literacy, info literacy, reading promotion - TL list/DB/"bureau" as speakers, consultants, trainers - bookstore partnerships (sponsor poster contest, events at bookstores, bookstore owners as speakers, newsletter column)

Podcasts of compelling stories about school libraries/librarians: like StoryCorps, which would be used to raise awareness/support for school libraries/librarians Podcast stories/digital storytelling service online CLA conference theme for 2013: Let's make some noise

build upon the Circulate This! Stories from the School Library set of stories.

Database of sample student work (parallel to posters)

- Maybe a bit extreme? [|http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/08/managing-libraries/ny-library-to-adopt-ad-supported-toilet-paper/#_]

__ Letters from the HOSA kids 2013 Scholarship

was there one more???