1. Continuing
Education/Training
and
Library Improvement
Grants
NCompass Live
November 17, 2010

2.  Continuing Education & Training
Grants
 Library Improvement Grants
 Internship Grants
 Scholarships
 Youth Grants for Excellence

3. http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/libdev/grant.html

4.  Accredited Nebraska public libraries
 Identified institutional libraries
 Nebraska Regional Library Systems
 Other organizations partnered with an
eligible entity

5. $250 to $5000

6.  December 17, 2010: Applications due
 January 21, 2011: Grants awarded
 June 17, 2011: Funds must be disbursed
 September 30, 2011: Projects completed
 October 21, 2011: Final reports submitted

7. 25% match
If you are requesting $1000, then
your match is $250, and the total
project budget is $1250.

8. The purpose of these grants is to assist Nebraska
libraries to improve the library services provided to
their communities through continuing education and
training for their library personnel and supporters.
Successful applications will show how the continuing
education and/or training proposed will support the
library's mission.

9. Doesn’t cover:
◦ Nebraska regional or statewide professional conferences,
◦ events sponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission
for the purpose of training or continuing education,
◦ events sponsored by the Nebraska Regional Library
Systems for the purpose of training or continuing
education, or
◦ other similar workshops, conferences, meetings or events

10. $500 to ???
But call us & discuss your
project if the grant request
goes over $10,000

11.  January 7, 2011 Applications due
 February 17, 2011 Recipients announced

12. 25% match (10% cash)
If your project will cost $5000,
then the match is 25% of that or
$1250, and at least $500 of that
$1250 must be cash. Your grant
request will be $3750.

13.  1. Expanding services for learning and access to
information and educational resources in a variety
of formats, in all types of libraries, for individuals of
all ages;
 2. Developing library services that provide all users
access to information through local, state, regional,
national, and international electronic networks;
 3. Providing electronic and other linkages among
and between all types of libraries;

14.  4. Developing public and private partnerships with other
agencies and community based organizations;
 5. Targeting library services to individuals of diverse
geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds,
to individuals with disabilities, and to individuals with
limited functional literacy or information skills; and
 6. Targeting library and information services to persons
having difficulty using a library and to underserved
urban and rural communities, including children (from
birth through age 17) from families with incomes below
the poverty. . .

15. Funds cannot be used for:
◦Library construction or
renovation
◦Furniture

16.  A good idea
 A workable plan to
carry out the idea

17.  Innovative
 Benefits library users
 Sustainable

18.  People with skills, knowledge and time to
carry it out
 Stated goals and a way to measure how well
the goals were achieved
 Strategies for achieving the goals
 A timeline
 A budget
 Support from stakeholders