From the President of RUSA: Advocating for Reference and User Services

Abstract

In this, my final column as RUSA president, I’d like to continue offering what I intend to be information and insights that you can immediately put into practice at your own library. Here I’m using the umbrella theme of library advocacy to first provide an update on RUSA’s larger legislative activities, then secondly to share techniques for local library advocacy that have proven effective and that can be modeled by libraries regardless of type. These ideas come from my own experience, those of my Maryland public library colleagues, and from experiences shared by members of the rusa-l electronic discussion list.