Politics and advocacy: The role of networking in selling the library to your community

Public Library Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 137-154

  McClure, Charles R ^a   Feldman, Sari ^b   Ryan, Joe ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library

Author keywords

Advocacy; Government relations; Networking; Political system; Sustainable support

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548522162     PISSN: 01616846     EISSN: 15411540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J118v25n01_10     Document Type: Article

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