Library Advocacy

To advocate is to plead in favor of or to support, promote, and defend publicly, and advocacy is a system or discipline of organized support, promotion, and defense of a cause, an association, or an institution in the public arena. In the world of libraries, advocacy has come to mean two things—the public, organized support and promotion of individual libraries or individual library services and the public, organized support of libraries in general or of library issues and causes. I can advocate for my library by promoting library programs, collaborating with teachers, and training on district provided databases with teachers, administrators, and students.