A joint campaign can help each partner agency achieve individual goals and expand its base of support.  Libraries do well to call attention to their role as a community agency, focused on serving the same public as many other community agencies. 

Whatever form the partnership takes, library advocates can both contribute to and benefit from a larger circle of allies.

By creating a formal collaboration with other educational institutions or non-profits with complementary public service missions, the library can build support for new or improved facilities, services and programs. A joint campaign can help each partner agency achieve individual goals and expand its base of support, while enhancing services to the community and opening new dimensions for collaborative service.

Advocacy partnerships take many forms. They may involve campaigns for public support to create joint school-library facilities, private fundraising for combined cultural or educational programming, or participation in a campaign for co-located community service facilities. Partners may range from community colleges and high schools to parks, early childhood centers or community health clinics. 

Whatever form the partnership takes, library advocates can both contribute to and benefit from a larger circle of allies. Such efforts can lead to more creative use of public and private resources in the form of collaborative programming and community outreach.

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