Championing Your School Library: A Practical Guide to Advocacy, Marketing and Promotion Strategies

Championing Your School Library is a comprehensive guide to practical strategies for advocating, marketing, and promoting your library. It will enable readers to demonstrate the value of their school library, particularly through building relationships with key stakeholders and the wider community. Written by an experienced librarian, this book draws on both library and business strategies, as well as real-life examples and case studies of successful practices. A comprehensive guide, it will help readers craft a strategic marketing plan tailored to user needs and ensure that the librarian can offer and build engaging connections for mutual benefits. Chapters cover such topics as

• an introduction to advocacy, marketing and promotion, as well as their importance;
• developing advocacy techniques and marketing plans;
• how to demonstrate the value and impact of the school library; and
• the importance of building relationships with stakeholders.

Barbara Band is an award-winning and Chartered librarian with over thirty-five years of experience working in the education sector from primary through to secondary levels. She's currently Treasurer and newsletter editor of the CILIP School Libraries Group and was previously CILIP President and Vice Chair of the Great School Libraries Campaign. In addition, she contributed to the work of the School Library Association as editor of The School Librarian, wrote several SLA publications and was Chair of the SLA Berkshire branch. She is also Chair of the Library Services Trust, and founder and Chair of the UK Pupil Librarian of the Year Award (PLAA). She is known as an influential library campaigner and has worked with BookTrust, the National Literacy Trust and the Open University, amongst other organizations, to advocate for the value and benefits of reading, and the role and importance of school libraries.