Library Advocacy is the staff, friends of the library and public acting for the benefit of the public library to increase funds and secure resources that are up to date. This will get the companies that the library are interested in to see the library as a company as albeit a nonprofit. This will cause them to be interested in funding and getting more people into the library so that the government provides the library with more funding as well.
The first advocacy resource to be presented is a primer created for an event called Library Snapshot Day. This program was created to provide a photographic representation of a day in the life of a library. They asked library staff to document in statistics, stories and photographs “a day in the life”
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While the second resource encourages both the staff and any patrons of the library to market the library. With the staff the article wants them to make the library interesting so that people will want to tell other people about it. For the patrons the article wants them to tell people about the value of their library. Both resources mention programs to promote the library in library snapshot day it is the pictures and in Engaging Your Library Community it is a story contest of experiences at the library.
After preforming the CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose) test these sites, qualify as being credible. They are current and relevant. The author of the first resource is an authority in libraries. The author of the second resource is an authority in marketing who has an interest in the library field. The resources both seem to be accurate the first is on the ALA website and the second was found from searching the EBSCO search engine. They both achieve the purpose of library advocacy.
With the program Library Snapshot Day if the event is on the same day as the concert event we could use this in the pictures to show the impact of the