Resolutions Archives

The word Resolutions appears in blue text over a purple line. Underneath, the words Rethinking Library Work for 2026 appear in blue capital letters. Beneath the lettering, a row of book spines appear in rainbow colors. Each book spine includes a different resolution as its title.

As we enter a new year, we often reflect on our resolutions and goals for the months ahead. While libraries may follow programming seasons, academic calendars, or municipal budget cycles, the start of a new year is still a fresh chapter. As we turn the page into 2026, it’s an opportunity to refresh our programs and processes. Should we open a new chapter for community needs or professional growth? Here’s how I’m approaching library resolutions this year.

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Resolve to be an Everyday Advocate

January 23, 2025March 18, 2025| Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee|Leave a comment

I am the kind of person who likes to create New Year’s resolutions. Things like: stretch for 10 minutes after working out, make one night per week phone free, or solve the global climate crisis. After creating these resolutions, I immediately forget about them and go on living my life without stretching. This year is different though. Why? Because this year my #1 resolution is to be an Everyday Advocate. What does that mean? An Everyday Advocate practices Everyday Advocacy, of course! Everyday Advocacy is an ALSC initiative to give all ALSC members the tools to feel comfortable advocating for libraries to any and all members of their community, and realize that advocacy efforts come in different shapes and sizes. You may picture advocacy efforts as writing letters to legislators or marching for a cause. However, it can also include going to community events to share the importance of library…

Blogger Jonathan Dolce

Resolve! Be Resolute! Not Another Resolution

January 4, 2019May 9, 2025| Jonathan Dolce|Leave a comment

BE Resolute! This is not another resolution article. There are no top-10’s, lists, take-aways or look backs to 2018. Sorry. Instead, I want you to resolve to be resolute this year and ever after. A Better You Being a better you is easier than you think. Shoot. Okay, look, what follows is kind of a list, but is has nothing to do with 2018, only 2019. How can you possibly be any better, you may ask. Here’s some tips to improve, stand out and generally be better than you were before you started reading my post. No, really. Be alert! Being alert means more than simply being wired. Having said that, if you are a caff-feind, then you should know there’s a military-grade algorithm fir optimizing your caffeine intake: Secondly, for me, being alert has become second nature when…

Blogger Jonathan Dolce

2018 And Life to Go: Resolutions Anyone?!

November 16, 2017May 20, 2025| Jonathan Dolce|2 Comments

Not Another New Year’s Resolution Article I promise. No eye candy. No videos strung by html with care. But it is Elf themed, which you need to watch if you haven’t already. You’ve got just six weeks and four days before the new year makes you keep writing 2017 for a few weeks. Resolution lists anyone? Please tell me you aren’t recycling last years, or even lamely “upcycling” them, just to sound trendy or get your friends off your back. Let’s get real, and let’s apply it to our professional world. Here we go… Mentoring For the love of candy canes, you have a story to tell, and believe it or not, you could totally help out an up and coming mentee. No, really. And it’s easy to get matched. For example, Florida Library Association has a mentoring program every year, that officially only runs one year at a time,…

Blogger Meg Smith

My Summer Reading Club Resolutions

May 7, 2013June 23, 2025| Megan Smith|Leave a comment

Why should resolutions only be made at the beginning of the new year? The ball doesn’t need to drop in Times Square for us to make some changes in how we approach our work. I’ve decided to make some resolutions before our summer reading club begins. I hope at the end of this busy, exciting, and exhausting summer, I can confidently say I made progress on how I approach this special time of year. What goals do I have to enhance my summer reading mindset? Embrace the Need for Crowd Control – Though summer is a wonderful time to bring in people to our library, as a smaller branch facility, we often have to deal with the wonderful problem of having more patrons than our building can support. If we expect a certain number of participants for a program and two day care buses pull up to our front doors…

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Resolutions You Can Use: Rethinking Library Resolutions for 2026

January 6, 2026December 29, 2025| Jaime Eastman|Leave a comment