Be a Library Advocate
What is library advocacy?
Library advocacy can be as simple as telling a friend about library services and their importance within the community, and can have the ripple effect of ensuring the library has the resources to continue offering those services.
How you can take action:
- Use the library. Taking advantage of everything the library has to offer helps us to show the importance of access to our community.
- Talk about the value that the library adds to your life with your friends and neighbors.
- Help friends and neighbors get library cards. Many people don't know what they are missing until they get signed up.
- Reach out to your elected representatives in the Jackson Town Council and Board of County Commissioners, and the Wyoming House and Senate to make sure they know the importance of the library in our community.
- Follow legislative updates that have the potential to impact your access to library resources. EveryLibrary, a Library advocacy organization, has a bill tracker you can follow.
Share your TCL story
Have you gotten books or resources that have provided the information you needed, supported your education, or helped your small business? Have our programs been informative, entertaining or given you a way to engage with your community? We'd like to hear about impact the library has on your life!
Fill out our form to share your story, and one of our team members may be in touch to learn more.
IMLS Funding in Danger
With the Institute of Museum and Library Services having been targeted by the Trump administration for eventual elimination, we need ALL library supporters to keep up a constant drumbeat of opposition to their plan. Learn more about the issue on this FAQs page.
Whether you’ve worked at a library or even just visited one, we need you posting to any and all social media networks in support of federal library funding as often as you can. Don’t forget to use #ForOurLibraries and #FundLibraries so we can see and uplift some of your posts!
If you have a personal story about why IMLS or library funding is important to you, tag your representatives wherever they have an active account; local stories have the best chance to grab their staff members’ attention within the social media crowds.
Share your library story with Congress
Libraries are among the most trusted institutions in America, but they are facing unprecedented challenges. One of the best ways for you to support libraries and have a better shot at impacting Congress’s approach to library-related funding and legislation is by sharing a personal story about how libraries have helped YOU or your community.