Here's some inspiration for you — though Naturita has a population of only 665, this Colorado community's library earned Library Journal's 2011 Best Small Library in America Award.

Here are fundraising ideas from Wisconsin Small Libraries Section (WISL) programs at past Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL) conferences:

Thoughts on being a library advocate:

WebJunction is offering a free online seminar on ideas for ways libraries can collaborate with local job centers to provide services to job seekers.

Do you have a Facebook page for your library?  If so, these 2 ideas tweeted by Kimberly Brosan look like good ideas to try:

The Pass the Book program at Howard County Library (Columbia, Maryland) uses the “power of peer recommendation” to promote reading among teens.  Librarian Katie George said, “The fastest, most effective way to promote reading…or anything else…among teens is for a teenager to make a recommendation to another teenager.” The program’s result in 2010: 324 teens read The Secret H

The Cambria County (PA) Library used LSTA grant money to develop an area in the library  tailored for adults 55 and better.  It's a 450-square-foot area dubbed the "Classic Corner."