Successful Library Fundraising - Best Practices (Hardcover)

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.