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= Frontline Advocacy for School Libraries Toolkit =

**Based on:**
**Where School Is Cool! Frontline Advocacy for School Libraries Toolkit** includes definitions, strategies, worksheets and checklists, and recommendations for specific activities..

**Powerpoint:** Frontline Advocacy: Promotion+Marketing=Advocate s [[file:NassauPPT.ppt]]
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**MORE RESOURCES:**
American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Advocacy Toolkit

Library Advocate’s Handbook (PDF)

The YA Advocacy Action Plan Workbook (PDF)

School Library Systems Advocacy Toolkit

National Council for the Social Studies Toolkit

AASL School Library Program Health and Wellness Toolkit

AASL Crisis Toolkit

[|New York State School Library Media Program Rubric (SLMPE)]

[|Knight Commission Report] (Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age)

School Libraries Count survey and previous years' reports

// **NEW!!! Position paper from Ross Todd and Carol Gordon from CISSL.** // It cites five decades of research proving that school libraries help boost student achievement: //School Libraries, Now More than Ever//. Download it from: @http://cissl.scils.rutgers.edu/index.html

//** Instructional Classification Toolkit ** to support the classification of SLMSs as educators. //

//**From ALA and NYLA:**//

 * **LEGISLATIVE ACTION CENTER- direct link to contact your Senator: []**


 * **Add It Up** Research and statistics to help advocates make the case for libraries at every stage of youth development and education.


 * **Advocating in a Tough Economy Toolkit** includes talking points, outreach activities, checklists, and resources.


 * **School Library Funding Press Kit** includes links to Google Map of library cuts, current news/articles, tweets, etc., plus talking points to use.


 * **State of America's Libraries Report 2010:** School Libraries.


 * ** Value of Libraries. Includes links to articles, resources, and calculation tables. **


 * [|NYLA's Capwiz] for advocacy action!


 * New York Libraries are Essential! Add YOUR Library Snap Shot Day, tell why your library is essential, download marketing materials.


 * SLMS/NYLA Advocacy and Crisis Kit

Videos
Social Media Revolution video from YouTube

The Missing Librarians

Laurie Halse Anderson's Knickerbocker Award acceptance speech snippet

Did You Know 4.0

Sidwell Friends School Library web page. Check out the video! It meets the needs of the library's stakeholders, the students.