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FYI. > The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is pleased to announce > the release of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) > competitive grants for fiscal year 2009! There are four separate > grant opportunities available. A brief description of each is below. > The deadline for applications is March 14, 2008, with awards to be > announced in August 2008. The details, along with applications and the > full guidelines, can be found at > <http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/funding/lsta/> . Texas Reads may be > accessed at <http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/funding/index.html#txReads> > > > Cooperation Grants > > This grant program provides funds for programs that promote cooperative services for learning and access to information. Programs involving collaboration are encouraged. Programs must emphasize improved services by the library to its customers. > Programs may be in the following categories: > 1. Expand services for learning and access to information & > educational resources in a variety of formats; 2. Develop library > services that provide all users access to information through local, > state, regional, national, & international electronic networks; 3. Provide electronic and other linkages between and among all types of libraries; or 4. Develop public & private partnerships with other agencies & community-based organizations. > > Approximately $220,000 is available for Library Cooperation Grants, subject to approval by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Applications of all sizes are encouraged. While the request may be part of a larger program, awards will not exceed $75,000. > > Special Projects Grants > > This grant program provides funds for programs that expand library services to all members of the library's community. It enables libraries to develop programs for populations with special needs. Programs involving collaboration are encouraged. Programs must emphasize improved services by the library to its customers. > Programs may be in one of the following categories: > 1. Target 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. > 2. Target library and information services to persons having difficulty using a library and to underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families below the poverty line. > > Approximately $220,000 is available for Special Projects Grant program, subject to approval by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Applications of all sizes are encouraged. While the request may be part of a larger program, awards will not exceed $75,000. > > Contact for Cooperation and Special Grants is Stacey Malek, Library > Development Program Coordinator. She may be reached at 512-463-5532 > or 800-252-9386 or via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Texas Reads > > The Texas Reads Grant funds public library programs to promote reading > and literacy within local communities. Programs may be targeted to the entire community or to a segment of the community. Programs involving collaboration with other community organizations are encouraged. Reading promotion programs are those that actively encourage people to read and to develop a lifelong love of reading. One goal of reading promotion programs is to develop a more literate community. Typically, this involves presenting or hosting programs that will involve people in reading activities and will generate enthusiasm for reading.> Libraries may also coordinate programs in basic literacy, family literacy, and the ability to read, write and speak English and to compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society. Awards for FY 2009 will not exceed $3,000 with an estimated $ 10,000 available for the Texas Reads Grant Program. > > Contact for Texas Reads is Wendy Clark, State Grants Coordinator. > She may be reached at 512-463-5475 or 800-252-9386 or via email at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Library System Grant > > This grant program provides funds to assist library systems to plan and develop programs in which system member public libraries collaborate and cooperate with libraries in public schools or institutions of higher education in the region. These programs must be in one of the categories below; in addition, some of the funds may be used to plan for adding other types of libraries to the membership of the system. > > The Library System Grant program will provide grants to Texas Library Systems to assist libraries in expanding services to all members of the library> '> s community. > Programs may be in the following categories: > > 1. Provide assistance to libraries to support literacy and educational > attainment in their communities; 2. Assist libraries in providing > programs and services to meet the needs of their populations; 3. > Assist libraries with technology to serve the information needs of > Texans; or > > Approximately $120,000 is available for Library System Grants, subject to approval by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Applications of all sizes are encouraged. While the request may be part of a larger program, awards will not exceed $60,000. > > Contact for the Library System Grant is Stacey Malek, Library > Development Program Coordinator. She may be reached at 512-463-5532 > or 800-252-9386 or via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ syscon-tx mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.tsl.state.tx.us/mailman/listinfo/syscon-tx
