Library Snapshot Day: 2010

Library Snapshot Day
A Day in the Life of Your Library: 2010

Library Snapshot Day provides a way for libraries of all types across a state, region, system or community to show what happens in a single day in their libraries.

~ How many books are checked out?

~ How many people receive help finding a job?

~ Doing their taxes?

~ Doing their homework?

This initiative provides an easy means to collect statistics, photos and stories that will enable library advocates to prove the value of their libraries to decision-makers and increase public awareness.

The concept originated in New Jersey as a joint effort between the New Jersey Library Assn. and the New Jersey State Library. Soon after, many states began emulating the effort. At the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting, the ALA Advocacy Coordinating Group, in conjunction with the Chapter Relations Committee and COSLA, agreed to take this initiative to a national level, asking that states across the country find a date to conduct a Library Snapshot Day.

See examples of states that have created or are planning Library Snapshot Days.