{"id":1371,"date":"2019-05-30T10:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T08:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2019-05-31T10:25:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T08:25:26","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-20-do-your-background-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/05\/30\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-20-do-your-background-research\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #20: Do Your Background Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1374\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/05\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-20-300x157.png\" alt=\"The 10 Minute Library Advocate Number 10 - Do Your Background Research. Image: Person in a Magnifying Glass\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/05\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-20-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/05\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-20-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/05\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-20.png 788w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In advocacy, the personal touch is important.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re trying to convince a politician or other decision-maker to support you, you need to adapt to them.<\/p>\n<p>And of course politicians and decision-makers are human beings, with interests, priorities and preferences.<\/p>\n<p>If you can find a way of linking your message to their personal experience, you have a stronger chance of success.<\/p>\n<p>So for our 20<sup>th<\/sup> 10-Minute Library Advocate Exercise, do your background research!<\/p>\n<p>Before you meet someone, try to find out more about them.<\/p>\n<p>Do particular issues matter more for them than others? You can then bring in how libraries help in that field.<\/p>\n<p>Where do they come from? You can find an example from the library in their home-town.<\/p>\n<p>Elected officials in particular will have campaign material you can use to find this out, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>See the introduction and previous posts in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/tag\/everylibrariananadvocate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10-Minute Library Advocate<\/a> series and join the discussion in social media using the #EveryLibrarianAnAdvocate hashtag!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In advocacy, the personal touch is important. If you\u2019re trying to convince a politician or other decision-maker to support you, you need to adapt to them. And of course politicians and decision-makers are human beings, with interests, priorities and preferences. If you can find a way of linking your message to their personal experience, [&hellip;]<\/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":[26646,219,26647],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-everylibrariananadvocate","tag-libraries","tag-library-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","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=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}