Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.

 

The first edition of this breakthrough book was a huge success, so FOLUSA (Friends of Libraries USA) has collected 101+ more terrific ideas and best practices to help you and your team connect with your community. Following an introduction which sets the stage for effective library/community partnerships, you’ll discover ideas for innovative programs, successful fundraising, strategic advocacy, powerful public relations, memorable membership campaigns, and more. As in the first book, each idea is presented with practical instructions, graphics, and implementation tools so you can adapt these programs successfully and creatively to match your library’s specific needs and opportunities.

 "Libraries owning 101 Great Ideas for Libraries and Friends will want to consider purchasing this title... Even More Great Ideas for Libraries and Friends is of value to school and academic libraries and is highly recommended as an essential purchase for public libraries."
-- Reference and User Services Quarterly; Vol. 49, Issue 2
 
"What a mother lode! Every public library should own at least one copy of this tool. In addition, every academic library affiliated with a library school needs this valuable resource...a copy belongs in the hands of an officer of every public library Friends group. Consider Even More Great Ideas for Libraries and Friends to be an investment in the life of your library."
-- Catholic Library World, September 2009
 
"Although the major audience will be libraries with friends groups, any library would benefit from the chapters on programs, advocacy, and awareness....If you wish to enhance your friends' projects or just develop library awareness, this is the tool to get you started."
-- Booklist, March 2009
 
"This book will be a useful purchase for any library looking for ideas for Friends groups and the library itself to enact."
-- ARBA, March 2009
 
"Even More Great Ideas for Libraries and Friends" should be considered an essential addition to all community library staff resource reference collections. Also very highly recommended is the companion title published by Neal-Schuman, "101 Great Ideas for Libraries and Friends".
-- The Midwest Book Review, November 2008
 

Sally Gardner Reed is the executive director of Friends of Libraries U.S.A. and the acting director of the Association of Library Trustees and Advocates--a division of the American Library Association. She speaks nationwide and worldwide about the critical role Friends play in ensuring that libraries are fully funded in the community and on campus. She is the author of eight books, including Making the Case for Your Library (Neal-Schuman, 2002). She works and resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Beth Nawalinski is the Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator of Friends of Libraries U.S.A. Although Beth completed her undergraduate studies in nuclear engineering, she has pursued her career supporting literacy and libraries as Community Relations Coordinator with Barnes & Noble and, before coming to FOLUSA in 2002, as Public Information Specialist with the Norfolk (VA) Public Library. She resides in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Both are the authors, with Alexander Peterson, of 101+ Great Ideas for Libraries and Friends, the predecessor of Even More Great Ideas for Libraries and Friends, also published by Neal-Schuman.

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