Library Development staff are available to provide consulting services on best practices for Friends of the Library groups by email or telephone.
2025 Statewide Friends of the Library Training
Successful Friends Groups:
- Listen to the librarian about library needs
- Know the library’s goals
- Know the library’s budget plan
- Are ready to adjust in an emergency
- Talk to the librarian and board of trustees about fundraising plans
- Expend 80% of funds raised annually on the library with 20% for administrative expenses
- Have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with library administration
United for Libraries
United for Libraries is a national network of enthusiastic library supporters who believe in the importance of libraries as the social and intellectual centers of communities and campuses.
No one has a stronger voice for libraries than those who use them, raise money for them, and govern them. By uniting these voices, library supporters everywhere will become a real force to be reckoned with at the local, state, and national levels.
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Starting a Friends of the Library Group
Don’t have a Friends group yet? Follow these key steps to get started.
For more information, contact:
- Janine Miller
- Coordinator of Training and Development
- [email protected] or (501) 682-5291
