Record Nr.

UNINA9910786797503321

Titolo

Successful library fundraising : best practices / / edited by M. Sandra Wood ; contributors Sidney Berger [and seventeen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014
©2014

ISBN

1-4422-3170-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Best Practices in Library Services

Disciplina

025.11

Soggetti

Library fund raising - United States

Library fund raising

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Fundraising for Public Libraries with Author Events; Chapter 2. Crazy Smart: Creative Approaches to Developing Your Donor Pipeline and Increasing Support; Chapter 3. Selling Used Books to Generate Library Funds; Chapter 4. Discovery Calls: Expanding Your Donor Base and Donor Pipeline for Future Library Support; Chapter 5. The Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries: Buildings, Programs, and Endowment; Chapter 6. Taking a Campaign Public: The Community Phase of the Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries

Chapter 7. Strategies for Seeking External Funding in a Health Science LibraryChapter 8. Developing the Potential of a Library's Board; Chapter 9. Quick Wins in Planned Giving for Libraries: Documenting Simple Bequests; Chapter 10. Special Collections and Outreach; Chapter 11. A Public Library's Multifaceted Approach to Fundraising; Chapter 12. Digital Philanthropy and Libraries; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Obtaining 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 traditional and non-traditional methods.