Look for these resources at the Summer Institute in Alumni Relations. These materials will build upon the information you'll be learning in conference sessions.

Buy on site and save! You won't pay shipping charges when you purchase books at the conference and take them home with you. All publications will be sold at the CASE member price.

Materials available for purchase during the conference include:

• Academic Ceremonies: A Handbook of Traditions and Protocol
  Gain confidence in your ability to plan your campus' most important-and visible-formal events. Get the details right with information in this book.
• Alumni Clubs and Chapters
  Let 14 alumni relations professionals walk you through the essential steps of recruiting, training and rewarding volunteers; program planning; funding and marketing; and evaluating success.
• Alumni Relations: A Newcomer's Guide to Success, 2nd edition
  This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of John Feudo's award-winning book offers expert advice and insight on annual funds, reunions, engaging young alumni, and more.
• Alumni Relations: Launching Your Program
  This guide to starting your first alumni relations program gives a brief overview of planning and organization; establishing a budget; staffing your office; maintaining records; communications; and establishing services, events, and activities.
• Being Global: Making the Case for International Alumni Relations
  How do you build and maintain relationships with your alumni when they're scattered across the globe? Should you even try? This book can help you address these questions.
• Best of the Board Café: Hands-on-Solutions for Nonprofit Boards
  This collection of most-requested articles from CompassPoint's Board Café online newsletter offers insights on board responsibilities, executive directors, fundraising, finance, and more.
• Dive Into Social Media: Select Articles from CURRENTS
  This collection of articles from CURRENTS looks at various aspects of social media and how they relate to advancement. The articles were originally published 2010-2012.
• Etiquette and Protocol: A Guide for Campus Events
  Straightforward advice on the do's and don'ts of campus etiquette will show you how to provide hospitality in a uniform, graceful and consistent manner.
• Handbook of Institutional Advancement
  Edited by CASE President Emeritus Peter McE. Buchanan, with contributions from 97 other advancement professionals, this essential reference book includes information about all aspects of advancement--alumni relations, communications, marketing, fundraising, advancement services--as well as chapters on advancement at community colleges, independent schools and academic medical centers. The book includes resource lists and a comprehensive index.
• Happy Birthday, Dear Alma Mater
  This book walks you through the process of staging a major institutional anniversary and offers field-tested advice for stage managing the celebration and conducting the debriefing after the excitement wears down.
• I'd Rather Eat Live Spiders: A Definitive Guide to Becoming a Successful Speaker
  Developing strong speaking and listening skills is essential for success in fundraising. This book is filled with practical, invaluable advice for learning to speak clearly and coherently, listen effectively and think quickly.
• Learning to Love the Politics: How to Develop Institutional Support for Advancement
  Get practical, seasoned advice on how to incorporate politics as another skill in your professional toolkit and how to use political tools to promote advancement on campus.
• Special Events: Planning for Success
  Special events are integral to advancement. The information in this updated edition reflects changes in field of special-event planning. How-to guides will see you through your events.
• Strategic Planning in Higher Education: Theory and Practice
  Learn the systematic process of strategic planning in this book that devotes a chapter to each major step, including clarifying mission and values, establishing a vision, identifying issues, and implementing the plan.

Consider adding these titles to your advancement library. Don't forget to leave a little extra room in your suitcase to carry home your new CASE books.