Our past advocacy efforts have won

• Expanded library hours
• Increased book budgets
• The hiring of children’s librarians
• After-school youth programs
• Retrofitting of the Golden Gate, Temescal and Melrose branches
• Funds to help renovate and re-open the Greene Library for the African American Museum and Library in downtown Oakland
• Successful passages of three funding measures by Oakland voters (1994, 1996 and 2004)

Click here for information on Measure Q, Measure N, and Capital Improvement Projects.
Advocacy resources and information

• City of Oakland Council Agendas and Calendars
• Official California Legislative Information

• California Library Association
• United For Libraries (Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations

• American Library Association – Office for Library Advocacy