(via Leslin Charles, ACRL Chapters Council Past Chair)
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 (“Leveraging Our Library Ecosystems to Communicate Our Value” slides), and will provide preparation for a second webinar in fall of 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“; AASL, “What is Advocacy”) 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. Please help us with your fully anonymous and individual response. It will take less than 10 minutes (mostly checkboxes).
The survey will close on Friday, September 5.