Revitalizing Your Friends

Here’s the link to the recording and slides from our July 8 2025 webinar - Strategies for Revitalizing Your Friends presented by Isabella Ramirez Sandoval from the Los Angeles Public Library. In this 40 minute video you will find some absolutely breakthrough ideas. While most of you don’t have the huge network of Friends groups they have at LAPL, there was something in this presentation that could definitely work for even a small library! In addition to the usual Friends groups and activities that we’re all familiar with she shared some creative ideas about Friends groups that meet only virtually, or include and focus on teen involvement, and even some who have formed not just around branch libraries, but around particular departments or collections within the library. Wouldn’t you like to have scholarships for Teen Volunteers? Or sales of self-published coloring books? Even sales of self-published books of photos from the library’s collection! Or a sustainable garden?

Presenter slides are also attached.