Friends for School Library Improvement

Poser-Brown, Lora

Kaun, T. (2014). Friends of the Oakland Public School Libraries: Building bridges to the local community. CSLA Journal, 38(1), 20-23.

Reflection: Reading about the Oakland, CA, public schools and their diminishing library existence engaged my mind. The district has formed a strong partnership with vested community members, who in turn formed a new Friends of School Libraries group. The article details how the district and Friends have invested in community relationships and bettering their school libraries, some of which have now been completely overhauled. The article contains great step-by-step information on the process of reviving a dying sector of the district’s budget: the school libraries.

Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives for Promotion of Public Libraries

Christina Perris
INFO 266
Fall 2015

Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives for Promotion of Public Libraries

Kumar, P. V. (2013, January). Corporate social responsibility initiatives for promotion of public libraries. DESIDOC: Journal of Library & Information Technology, 33(1), 29-31.

 

This journal article explores the ways in which corporations are becoming involved in the different parts of the world to help establish and promote in freestanding libraries, establishing libraries in government-run schools, the purchase of books and even assisting with the renovation of older or decaying libraries. 

It is clear that this new sense of corporate social responsibility many corporations are now adopting appears to be a potentially mutually beneficial arrangement for libraries, especially for cashed-strapped public libraries.  Where these corporations have money and the time and willingness of their workers to contribute to help out these libraries, the libraries are understaffed and underfunded, in near-constant need of help and resources to keep their doors open to their patrons.