Your Friends group was missed at the Friends of Georgia Libraries' annual spring business meeting and workshop this year! We hope that your group is prospering, energized, and working to support your community's library.
FOGL's goal is to provide support at the local grassroots level to Friends groups around the state. FOGL offers awards each year to help recognize your group's dedication and efforts through a Best Friend award, along with a Fabulous Friend award. Each year, in an effort to support Georgia Friends groups and Georgia authors, FOGL also offers an Author Appearance Grant. That application can be found at our website. FOGL offers speakers for your groups, information on establishing, re-organizing, and re-energizing your Friends group, along with tips on advocacy, marketing, social networking, and trouble-shooting as your group supports your community's library.
FOGL also offers the opportunity for your group to share information through our website at www.georgia-friends.org . There you will find our calendar of coming events, a link to our Facebook page, a link to email your request for assistance, registration forms, and other information designed to help your group. In an effort to provide more current information, we have established a blog, which is available for you to share your group's coming events and information. We have all become aware that social networking is the new 'News' source for information, and FOGL offers an additional chance to broadcast your news.
There are Friends groups operating at many different levels around the state. If you are part of a successful group, share information on how you have achieved that success. An art instructor of mine once stated, "If you think you know all there is to know about painting, it's probably time to lay down your brushes and find something else to do....because you don't...there is always a new color mix or technique or brush to try." In other words, no matter how much you know, there is always something to be learned or shared. I apply that thought to Friends groups.
We are all volunteers, all ages, all backgrounds, giving our valuable time and efforts to make our Georgia libraries the best they can be. Shared information is extremely valuable. Please consider sharing what works for your group, and, yes, what doesn't work, as well.
We look forward to hearing from you, learning what you have learned along this journey to help make Georgia's libraries the best they can be!
Kathy
Kathy Ash
President, Friends of Georgia Libraries
"Good Friends make great libraries!"
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