The Library Ecosystem: ONE VOICE for Advocacy
Presented Live: June 7, 2023
Description
Need to strengthen your library advocacy at the local level, state level, or beyond? Learn about the ALA Ecosystem Initiative, an effort to strengthen library advocacy across library types through identification of shared priorities for action and unified messaging. The Ecosystem Subcommittee of the ALA Committee on Library Advocacy (COLA) is charged to promote and explain the initiative across and beyond ALA units, as well as to examine ALA's practices and policies to encourage alignment with and support for ecosystem best practices.Presenters
Dorcas Hand
is a retired school librarian who has been working on the Ecosystem
Toolkit since its start in 2017. She is also active on the Board of the
Freedom to Read Foundation, and the Texas Library Association Executive
Board, as well as ALA Council as the Texas Councilor.
Bryan Duran is
the Materials Manager of San Francisco Public Library’s Main Art &
Music / Business & Technology Department. He is a new to serving on
the Ecosystem Subcommittee. As a 2022 Emerging Leader, he worked with
United for Libraries on a project that examined diversity in Library
Boards, Friends Groups, and Foundations.