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Tools & Ideas

The Librarian’s Disaster Planning and Community Resiliency Guidebook


The New Jersey State Library commissioned the Librarian’s Disaster Planning and Community Resiliency Guidebook and Workbook to help libraries in New Jersey and across the country to be better prepared to accept the new mantle of responsibility being thrust on them as a safe haven in times of crises.

Tools & Ideas

Project Outcome


Project Outcome is a free online toolkit designed to help public libraries understand and share the impact of essential library programs and services by providing simple surveys and an easy-to-use process for measuring and analyzing outcomes.

Tools & Ideas

A Step-By-Step Guide to 'Turning Outward' to Your Community


Tools to help libraries strengthen their role as community leaders and bring about positive change in their communities from the American Library Association's Libraries Transforming Communities initiative and the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation.

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Nonprofits Integrating Community Engagement Guide from The Building Movement Project and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management


Provides information, tools, case studies and other resources to help nonprofit groups develop core competencies on constituent and community engagement.