The necessity of the library, its great value to the community, should be urged by the local press, from the platform, and in personal talk.

Include in your canvass all citizens, irrespective of creed, business, or politics; whether educated or illiterate.
Enlist the support of teachers, and through them interest children and parents.

Literary, art, social, and scientific societies, Chautauqua circles, local clubs of all kinds should be champions of the movement.
In getting notices of the library's work in the newspapers, or in securing mention of it from the lecture platform, or in clubs, and literary, artistic, and musical societies, it is better to refrain from figures and to deal chiefly in general statements about what the library aims to do and what it has done..