Capacity

Advocacy is a very specific management tool. Libraries often use advocacy informally but not in a very structured way.

To work well, advocacy needs planning, time and enough senior staff.

Is your service ready to deliver its library advocacy effectively?

Try this Advocacy Checklist - mark ''Yes' or 'No' to the following questions.

If you answer NO to any of these, make an action note of how to change the answer to a YES. To print your work select the 'Print Preview' button and then use the browser print option.

Question

Yes/ No

Action Note

Is your reader development work highly enough developed to be the subject of an advocacy campaign?


Has senior management developed an overall library advocacy strategy?


Within this is there an agreed element for reader development advocacy?


Have the messages been agreed?


Is your management style suited to external contact?


Is advocacy work in someone's job description?


Are they senior enough to represent the library service with authority?


Do they have good interpersonal skills?


Do they have networking and negotiation skills?


Now move onto 4 - Internal Ownership.