Coming Soon: State and Local Resources

The ALA Office for Library Advocacy and Chapter Relations Office are heading efforts to collect best practices on advocacy activities happening at the state and local level around the country.

This resource is scheduled to launch in time for the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, January 2010. Please check back for more information.

The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP), in partnership with the Information Institute at Florida State University, has developed a new tool for library advocates: the State Statistics Module.

This interactive website contains copious information about broadband connectivity in libraries and allows for the creation of customized reports, based upon 11 variables from the "2006 Public Libraries and the Internet Study." Users have the opportunity to create tables and charts of data at the national and state levels and create comparisons of the data. Users also have the ability to write descriptions of the graphs and tables, as well as an introduction and conclusion to their report.