Ebook: Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices

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.