2025 AALL Advocacy Training: Legislative Advocacy Basics
Recorded On: 04/29/2025
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Legislative advocacy is essential to making a difference for the legal information profession. This training will teach you skills to advocate for public policy issues. You will learn how to build effective partnerships and influence lawmakers while contributing to solutions for current information policy issues. This is an especially important time to learn or refresh these skills. This training will be recorded and registration is open to AALL members only.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Law librarians and legal information professionals from all types of law libraries interested in advocacy.
TAKEAWAYS:
- Participants will gain skills to effectively advocate for issues affecting law libraries and the legal information profession.
- Participants will be able to identify resources to help them advocate.
SPEAKER:
- Patrick "PC" Sweeney, Political Director, EveryLibrary
MODERATOR:
- David McFadden, AALL Government Relations Committee Chair
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Patrick "PC" Sweeney
Political Director
EveryLibrary
Patrick "PC" Sweeney, Political Director for EveryLibrary, is a 2007 San Jose School of Library and Information Sciences graduate and former Administrative Librarian and School Librarian and was Executive Director of EveryLibrary California, a statewide initiative to support library propositions. He was awarded Library Journal’s “Movers and Shakers” award in 2015 for his library advocacy work. He is co-author of “Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding” as well as “Before the Ballot; Building Support for Library Funding.” He was recognized with a “40 Under 40” award by the American Association of Political Consultants in 2019 for his work fighting for libraries at EveryLibrary. He is a lecturer at the San Jose Information School where he teaches courses on politics and libraries. He is active across social media as PC Sweeney.
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