For the last several months we have heard it over and over again:
"Our library budget has been cut".
With that in mind, the Chasing4Life Team began to work on new programs and new program incentives that would fit library budgets so that we could become a part of the solution and not the problem. We know that events at the library are important, and in fact, we believe that the library has become an integral part of every community's infrastructure more than ever before so reaching out to the community with education is more important than ever!
This year, National Library Week is April 11-17 and I find it interesting that the theme for this year's National week is "Communities Thrive @ Your Library".
Now is that time to take advantage of a national marketing campaign, cross-marketing avenues, social media and the program incentives we have been offering. Communities really DO thrive at the library! During tough economic times, libraries see more and more folks coming in to educate themselves, learn how to write resumes, brush up on procedures and news, use the internet and generally just utilize every aspect of the library!
A thriving library makes for a thriving community and budget cuts cannot deter the library from boldly standing up and saying "HERE! WE FOUND SOMETHING YOU NEED!"
With hundreds of libraries booking events with us, we have seen the picture pretty clearly too often; libraries pay WAY too much for WAY too little. That's why we have created entire days of programming for age groups starting with pre-schoolers and ending with Senior Citizens to maximize the potential of each and every day.
No good book has one or two chapters; every librarian knows that, so why not contact us today and see just how many chapters a day at the library with Chasing4Life can have?
Imagine a day filled with severe weather, earthquake, hurricane, lightning, geology, paleontology, climate change, and more. Watch your community grow stronger before your very eyes as they are reintroduced to a library filled with life-changing education on every shelf!
Our country is wrought with disasters from natural to man-made. We believe that with more education we will need less response and that an educated community is a resilient one. It is our goal as we tour to help communities thrive.
You can contact us through the website at www.chasing4life.org and within 24 hours you'll be on the phone with a very passionate, very excited, pro-library team member.
We look forward to seeing you this year.
