1. A presentation to the Outreach and Advocacy Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists By Conor Casey* *Kindly presented by Dana Miller

2. Suzzallo/Allen Library, University of Washington

3. Shared Special Collections Reading Room Collections Intermingled

4. Shared Exhibit Space

5.  Access  Collection  Outreach ---8 Main Areas of Activity  Education

6.  Teaching (Unions, UW students)  Publicity (Public, Potential Researchers and Donors, Campus Community)  Tours (Library/History/Labor Groups, Potential Donors)  Social Networking Sites (Donors, users, supporters)  Exhibitions (Campus and labor community, potential donors, potential users)  Events (Unions, Donors, Public, Potential Users)  Digital Portal Highlighting Labor Collections  Marketing (Internal and external audiences of potential users and donors)

7.  Presentations to unions  Classes to university students  Presentations to history organizations  Workshops for labor bodies  Volunteers, service learning students, library school interns

8.  3 radio interviews, 2 podcast interviews, at least 19 print and online articles on project, several listserv posts and mentions  Many LAWS projects are aimed at generating publicity for donations and attracting new users

9.  Main audience: Donors, researchers, and fellow librarians/archivists

10.  Facebook pages  Please “Like” and Add Us!  Labor Archives of Washington State: ▪ 137 “Likes”  Friends of the Labor Archives of Washington State: ▪ 119 friends, most close supporters  Archivist Conor Casey profile: ▪ 402 friends  Twitter presence (LaborArchivesWA@Twitter)  Future: Podcast user subscription model

11.  UW Student Activists and Farmworkers’ Movement Exhibit, April–July 2011

12.  Presentations to unions  Workshops for labor bodies at conventions  Presentations at conferences  Speeches to meetings of Pierce County, and King County Central Labor Councils; Washington State Labor Council Convention  Speeches to ILWU Joint Area Council, ILWU Local 23 and 19 Pensioner’s events  Bridges Center Annual Dinner

14.  Highlighting Labor Collections

15.  Promoting value of labor collections to local library audiences  Informing potential scholars of scope of collections  Promoting LAWS in archives, history communities

16.  Promoting labor collections within UW Special Collections  Advocating the value of labor collections at other repositories

17.  Please send any comments, suggestions, or feedback to cmcasey@uw.educmcasey@uw.edu  Please visit our website at http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/la ws http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/la ws  Don’t forget to “Like” and “Friend” us on Facebook and “Follow” us on Twitter!