Telling Your Library's Story
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Tell an emotionally powerful story about your library.
Join Jamie LaRue to learn how to break through confirmation bias and tell an emotionally powerful story about your library.
OCLC's From Awareness to Funding studies exposed a disturbing truth: use has nothing to do with library support. Moreover, public support for libraries is falling. Yet those of us working in libraries know how powerful and even transformational our services can be both for individuals and communities. So if the threat to our existence has been growing, and it has, for over 60 years, how do we tell a library story that actually changes hearts and minds?
Join Jamie LaRue to learn:
- Research regarding library support
- A formula for breaking through confirmation bias
- The structure of an emotionally powerful story, and how to customize it
Join us on Wednesday, November 12, 2025
at 2:00 pm US Eastern, 11:00 am US Pacific
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About Jamie
Jamie LaRue is the director of the Garfield County (Colorado) Public Library District. Author of "The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges," LaRue has been a public library director for many years, as well as a weekly newspaper columnist and cable TV host. From January of 2016 to November of 2018, he was director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, and ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. He has written, spoken, and consulted extensively on intellectual freedom issues, leadership and organizational development, community engagement, and the future of libraries.
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