Friends of Libraries

Friends of Libraries are non-profit, charitable groups formed to support libraries in their communities. ^[1]

7 relations: American Library Association, Charitable organization, County of Los Angeles Public Library, History of public library advocacy, Library, Nonprofit organization, Public library advocacy.

American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

New!!: Friends of Libraries and American Library Association · See more »

A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

New!!: Friends of Libraries and Charitable organization · See more »

County of Los Angeles Public Library

The County of Los Angeles Public Library is the 2nd largest public library system in the United States which serves residents living in 49 of the 88 incorporated cities of Los Angeles County, California.

New!!: Friends of Libraries and County of Los Angeles Public Library · See more »

History of public library advocacy

Public libraries in the American Colonies can be traced back to 1656, when a Boston merchant named Captain Robert Keayne willed his collection of books to the town.

New!!: Friends of Libraries and History of public library advocacy · See more »

Library

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

New!!: Friends of Libraries and Library · See more »

Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

New!!: Friends of Libraries and Nonprofit organization · See more »

Public library advocacy

Public library advocacy is support given to a public library for its financial and philosophical goals or needs.

New!!: Friends of Libraries and Public library advocacy · See more »

Redirects here:

Friends of Libraries U.S.A., Friends of Libraries USA, Friends of libraries, Friends of the Library.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_Libraries

Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships.

This is a giant online mental map that serves as a basis for concept diagrams. It's free to use and each article or document can be downloaded. It's a tool, resource or reference for study, research, education, learning or teaching, that can be used by teachers, educators, pupils or students; for the academic world: for school, primary, secondary, high school, middle, technical degree, college, university, undergraduate, master's or doctoral degrees; for papers, reports, projects, ideas, documentation, surveys, summaries, or thesis. Here is the definition, explanation, description, or the meaning of each significant on which you need information, and a list of their associated concepts as a glossary. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Swedish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Catalan, Czech, Hebrew, Danish, Finnish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Greek, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Filipino, Latvian, Estonian and Slovenian. More languages soon.

All the information was extracted from Wikipedia, and it's available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Unionpedia is not endorsed by or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Google Play, Android and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google Inc.