Here’s a Free and Easy Way to Build Support For Your Library
Use EveryLibrary’s high-quality paste-and-edit articles
Yes! You can use EveryLibrary’s content. It’s free and easy to do.
Are you finding it challenging to keep up with the demands of marketing your library and communicating with your community? EveryLibrary publishes articles every week designed to engage the public about the value of libraries and the work of librarians. Any library can repurpose our content to boost your relationship with existing and potential supporters and patrons.
Free Editable Content
EveryLibrary has a robust collection of free articles on library-related topics designed to ignite public interest in libraries. We offer that collection to your library.
You can post the articles as is or edit and revise them to customize the content for your community. Please consult our creative commons license, outlined below.
Most articles and publications from library organizations speak to other librarians. While there is value in librarians talking to each other, our articles do something that no one else in libraries is doing: we are intentionally and continually talking to Americans about libraries to build understanding and political support. We offer them for free to help you build awareness in your community of how your library impacts lives.
We have articles for any occasion, from National Library Month to National Disabilities Awareness Month.
Find What Works For You
Whatever you want your community to know about library impact, we have a breadth of content to market your library on social media. Increase your communications frequency, grow your reach, and build support in your community.
Getting Started
Getting started is easy! Dive into our growing library of articles designed to build awareness and appreciation of the value of libraries among Americans, whether they are active library users or not. You can browse the articles chronologically, by keyword search, or by subject.
- Keyword Searching. Our catalog of Medium stories is readily searchable. Click the 🔍 icon in the top right-hand corner of our Medium profile and enter keywords for the type of stories you need, such as “kids,” “book bans,” “summer,” “fitness,” “National Bookmobile Month,” or “business.”
- Subject Searching. You can also explore the six classifications we have sorted stories into at the top of the page: A Closer Look at Libraries, Reading, Entrepreneurship, Families, Health, and Lifestyle.
- Share and Repost. Follow EveryLibrary Medium, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to see new articles as they are published.
- Edit/Revise Stories. We invite you to copy and edit any story from our Medium, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter accounts and make them your own. Please follow the creative commons license detailed below.
Creative Commons License
Please adhere to our creative commons license when editing our content. Our articles are published under Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International and are free to edit and use with attribution. Please cite “EveryLibrary on medium.com/everylibrary.”
Example Attribution
“This work by EveryLibrary on medium.com/everylibrary is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. It has been edited from its original form.”
Who is EveryLibrary?
EveryLibrary is the first and only national organization dedicated to building library voter support. We “promote public, school, and college libraries, including by advocating in support of public funding for libraries and building public awareness of public funding initiatives.” We are creating a national network of Americans who will take action to create a better future for library funding.
We want the public to support library funding. It’s as simple as that. We employ a highly skilled staff of freelance writers who create articles to spark public interest in libraries. These stories add to EveryLibrary’s online presence via Medium, Facebook, and Twitter. The stories spring from our writers’ unique mix of interests and expertise and offer a distinctive and insightful lens on the merit of libraries. We support grassroots library advocacy and hope to galvanize voters to support library funding. Learn more at action.everylibrary.org.
What is Medium?
Medium is an open sources platform for digital publishing. Users can post stories to a profile. It operates in a way that is similar to an online magazine. EveryLibrary has found Medium to be a convenient place to publish and house articles in a shareable way.
