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.