{"id":1617,"date":"2019-10-11T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2019-10-11T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T08:24:31","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-39-think-of-a-problem-and-then-present-libraries-as-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/10\/11\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-39-think-of-a-problem-and-then-present-libraries-as-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #39: Think of a Problem, and then Present Libraries as the Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1619\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/10\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-39.png\" alt=\"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #39: Think of a Problem, and then Present Libraries as the Solution\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/10\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-39.png 1391w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/10\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-39-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/10\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-39-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/10\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-39-1024x579.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Advocacy is powerful when you are offering solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The people you are likely targeting \u2013 politicians, funders, others \u2013 spend a lot of their time trying to solve problems.<\/p>\n<p>And there are plenty out there \u2013 social, political economic.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, libraries also need things from decision-makers \u2013 funding, laws, other support.<\/p>\n<p>But lawmakers may well be more likely to listen harder when you focus on how this could help them solve other challenges.<\/p>\n<p>So for our 39<sup>th<\/sup> 10-Minute Library Advocate exercise, think of a problem, and then think about how you can present libraries as the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure it\u2019s a problem that a decision-maker might care about. You can try with more than one of course.<\/p>\n<p>For example, unemployment, lack of skills, a lack of integration.<\/p>\n<p>If you practice your arguments, you\u2019ll be better placed to influence others!<\/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>Advocacy is powerful when you are offering solutions. The people you are likely targeting \u2013 politicians, funders, others \u2013 spend a lot of their time trying to solve problems. And there are plenty out there \u2013 social, political economic. Of course, libraries also need things from decision-makers \u2013 funding, laws, other support. But lawmakers may [&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":[26646,219,32,26647],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-everylibrariananadvocate","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-library-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","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=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}