M. Sandra Wood

Successful Library Fundraising

Best Practices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Obtaining the funding to maintain and grow library services and resources has always been a challenge. Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices brings together a wealth of information from public, academic, special, and school libraries who share their successful approaches to raising funds through a variety of traditional and "outside-the-box" methods: ·Library development (cultivating donors) ·Endowments ·Corporate financing ·Special events ·Friends' groups and volunteers ·Grants, and more Fundraising is critical in today's economic climate. Tips and ideas from this volume will help library professionals gain confidence to begin a fundraising program or improve their current fundraising activities.

Produktdetails

• Best Practices in Library Services
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781442237384
• ISBN-10: 1442237384
• Artikelnr.: 40622437

Autorenporträt

M. Sandra Wood, MLS, MBA, AHIP, FMLA is librarian emeritus, Penn State University Libraries. She was a librarian at Penn State's George T. Harrell Library for over 35 years, specializing in reference, educational, and database services.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables Chapter 1. Fundraising for Public Libraries with
Author Events Andy Kahan Chapter 2. Crazy Smart: Creative Approaches to
Developing Your Donor Pipeline and Increasing Support Thomas B. Hadzor and
Kurt H. Cumiskey Chapter 3. Selling Used Books to Generate Library Funds
Jane Rutledge Chapter 4. Discovery Calls: Expanding Your Donor Base and
Donor Pipeline for Future Library Support Dwain Posey Teague Chapter 5. The
Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries: Buildings, Programs and Endowment
Terry R. Collings Chapter 6. Taking a Campaign Public; the Community Phase
of The Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries Jonna Ward Chapter 7.
Strategies for Seeking External Funding in a Health Science Library Hannah
F. Norton, Mary E. Edwards, Michele R. Tennant, and Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
Chapter 8. Developing the Potential of a Library's Board Christina Muracco
Chapter 9. Quick Wins in Planned Giving for Libraries: Documenting Simple
Bequests Karlene Noel Jennings Chapter 10. Special Collections and Outreach
Sidney Berger Chapter 11. A Public Library's Multi-Faceted Approach to
Fundraising Gina Millsap and LeAnn Meyer Chapter 12. Digital Philanthropy
and Libraries Lee Price Index About the Editor and Contributors