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Formal, planned communication between all types of libraries and “telling the state's library story” resulted in the largest single appropriation of new money to libraries, from the state lottery, in Georgia history. This climax follows a string of funding accomplishments including a 20 percent increase in materials grants, maintenance, and operating funds over an eight‐year period. Describes the strategies so successfully used at the state level to communicate funding needs and increase library capital and operating funds.

A couple of years ago the library press was constantly filled with depressing news of library closures, funding cutbacks, staff lay‐offs, and wage concessions. In the last year, though, the news has been more upbeat and hopeful. Several major recent news items make me think that the worst may be behind us and the future for libraries can be as bright as we have the brains and the guts to make it.