Everyone loves libraries – but we can’t live on love alone! NYS Library Aid funding comes from our state budgets, and we need your help to convince our legislators that libraries matter!

The purpose of this Libguide is to:

• Engage our user community and the SUNY Erie academic community at large
• Spread awareness of what the SUNY Erie library does, how it’s done, who we serve
• Archive support and need for the library through testimonial and story-sharing content collection
• Show appreciation to the students and faculty who advocate/d for the library
• Engage in the greater push to affect the NY legislative budget

 Help your library generate a buzz by:

• Writing or signing pre-written letters to our elected officials
• Tweeting out your support with a fleet of user-friendly messaging and hashtags
• Helping to create short audio/video testimonials telling your library story to show this is a real, human need!!

Thanks for being a library advocate! 

#LAD23 

#LibraryAdvocate

#LibraryChampion

SUNY Erie’s own City campus library recently survived a very real challenge to it’s own existence, and were it not for dedicated faculty, staff, and most importantly students, we might not be here…so we’d like to give thanks and provide a gentle but important reminder that the library is an essential organ within any academic campus!

Academically

Master of Library and Information Science degreed professionals provide academic support to students and faculty, through research assistance, classroom instruction, embedded hybrid and remote course support, non-traditional, experimental programming (roaming reference, virtual reality education), and individualized, need-based assistance

Spatially

A safe study and social space, with a commons and various quiet spaces, including multiple study and technical accommodations (quiet rooms, group study spaces and rooms, oversized study boards, flexible and modular furniture, universal design access to digital and print materials, technology, and printing).

Collaboratively

Interdepartmental academic collaboration (e.g. course reserve textbook collection, collection oriented departmental accreditation, tailored classroom instruction, grant-seeking)