{"id":1202,"date":"2019-03-08T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T08:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T09:23:58","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-8-think-of-a-partner-you-can-work-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/03\/08\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-8-think-of-a-partner-you-can-work-with\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #8: Think of a Partner You Can Work With"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Think<\/p>\n

No library is an island!<\/p>\n

Your library is an important part of the community you serve. And within that community there should be other people or groups who understand what you do and support you.<\/p>\n

This is the case, whether you\u2019re in a public or community library serving a local area, or a library serving the members of an institution such as a university or government department.<\/p>\n

One way for them to show their support is by helping you in your advocacy activities. They can echo your messages, let others know why your work is important, or even provide honest feedback that will allow you to improve.<\/p>\n

So for our eighth 10-Minute Library Advocate exercise, think of a partner you can work with.<\/p>\n

It could be an individual (such as a teacher, professor, local author or journalist), an institution (such as a school, an NGO, or even a government agency) or a group (a club that uses your library, or a research team).<\/p>\n

If you can think of more than one, that\u2019s great! Write them down, alongside a few words to describe them and how they can help.<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n

See the introduction and previous posts in our 10-Minute Library Advocate<\/a> series and join the discussion in social media using the #EveryLibrarianAnAdvocate hashtag!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No library is an island! Your library is an important part of the community you serve. And within that community there should be other people or groups who understand what you do and support you. This is the case, whether you\u2019re in a public or community library serving a local area, or a library serving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26646,20968,219,32,26647,9738],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-everylibrariananadvocate","tag-advocacy","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-library-advocacy","tag-partnerships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}