 Okay. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Kristen Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time, but if you're unable to join us on a Wednesday, that's fine. We do record the show every week and then it is posted on our website for you to watch at your convenience and I'll show you at the end of today's show where all those archives are. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think may be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. We do quite a mixture of things here at Encompass Live. The Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for all libraries in the state, so we have things for public libraries, academics, K-12, corrections, museums. We're all over the place. Basically our only criteria that it's something to do with libraries, something libraries are doing, book reviews that could be used for libraries, mini training sessions, demos of services and products that I think might be of use to libraries. We sometimes have guest speakers come in and do presentations for us and we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff do presentations and that's what we are doing this morning. Today we have a snack from Library Development which I'm the host of Encompass Live. I'm also the director of the Library Development Department here at the Nebraska Library Commission and we handle now all of the grants that the Nebraska Library Commission gives out. So we are going to talk about the grants that we have available that are all open right now to be applied for and are available for 2020. So you're applying now for things, monies that you will get next year. Pretty much. Pretty much. Yeah. We're calling it an exception but we'll hit that later. That's an exception. Okay. So we'll show you first. This is the Library Commission website. We're going to start here nlc.nebraska.gov is our main page. We have a blog there, lots of information about libraries. Over on the left here we have a menu and if you pop down to here where it says grants, grants, funding, and e-rates. This is all about ways to get money. I guess it's a way you can get money, discounts, what not. Over here we have the NLC related grants and these are the ones that we either offer out here that we give out or ones that we are participating in ourselves. So I'll mention you a couple things here first. Our Library Innovation Studios project that's a grant that we currently have going where we're putting all the makerspace equipment in libraries. That's something you can join in with us and just announced we're going to have some more libraries available. Look at that if you wanted to have some of those makerspaces. We're adding nine new libraries I think. Also the Sparks grant that was a grant that is I think a bit wrapping up at the moment. I'm not sure exactly the timing. That was doing a connection between schools and libraries sharing internet service. The other four grants are the ones we are going to talk about today. These are the ones that we are from the Library Commission giving out money to libraries in the state and there's specific links to each of the grants we're going to talk about but I want to jump right to the main general page that lists all four of them that we have. And we do have all four of our grants available this year. Yay! Everyone's here. We in previous years we have sometimes had to not offer one due to money, timing, whatever. So we haven't always every year been able to offer all four but this year we were able to finagle it and all four of the grants that we do offer through the Library Commission will be available. They are some of them use state funding to provide the money and just one, the Library Improvement Grant, is LSTA federal funds that you use. There is a separate page here for each grant with information all about them. We, oh here's a reminder, it's sent for today's Encompass Live. After this show, and I'll actually add that too now that I'm looking at this year, after today's show as well as I said and you know the recording goes on to the Encompass Live page I'll also update this link here on the main grant page to link to the archive. So if you're, you're not here with us today that's fine you'll have a link right there to watch the show with any of the info that we're going to give you today about all the grants that we have. What else, General, do I need to mention? I think we'll jump into each of the grants and I didn't, I failed to mention who's sitting here with me. Sally Snyder is our coordinator of youth and children, children and young adult library services. Something like that. I think that's it. Yeah, and Holly Duggan on the end is our continuing education coordinator and between the three of us we run all four of these grants here. I take all the applications of a team for each of our grants to evaluate and whatnot. They are all open now for applications so anyone of these who's got online forms are going to go through each one of them. We're not going to go through every single question and every single form and every single detail because we do have four different grants to talk about in the next hour. But we are going to just give you some general information about each one a few of the things to be aware of important things that we know people kind of maybe get confused about or trip over when they're doing this. And we have on here you see when they all became available pretty much all the gain of August. An email and a blog post was sent out then when they are all due and when you will be notified if you did receive the grant. And we are going to do these on the webpage here. We're just discussing if they're in order alphabetically but we are going to discuss them in order of when they are coming due because the first one at the bottom of the list alphabetically youth grants for excellence. The due date for that is actually the end of this month, September 30th. So don't panic. You can do it. You got time. And so I'm going to hand over to Sally here and she's going to tell you all about the youth grant track list and how you can apply for those. Thank you. And I know that both Holly and Krista will jump in when I when I go off track or forget to mention something important. So yay. If you click on that youth grant link which I just did you're sent to the main introduction page that talks about a number of things. Explain some things. And if you just want to well I can't see with me. Let's see. Trying to get to the FAQ. Okay, lost you. I'm going to try the key. I want to click on the FAQ link. Oh okay, yes. You see the second paragraph is just one sentence and this says if you have questions about what is involved with the youth grant this is the FAQ. There we go. So here I have some basic questions that we've gotten this resource more often than other questions. There's always something that comes up I've never heard before. So I'm excited for this year. So it's about you know what is it, who's eligible. These are librarians who are in public libraries for the state institutional library for correctional and the correctional facility. I'm trying to see how to get that mouse to work all that. It's kind of going off track. I think it's going better without the page. So I just wanted to show you that this page is there. There we go. It's like I never even ran a mouse before. So this this has good information in and I'm not trying to encourage you to ignore it but I suspect that most people just scroll down because this is what I would do. We all have limited time. How much can you apply for? Well it's up to you what project you want to do but the minimum grant award is $250. So if you only want to buy $150 worth of stuff for your project that's great but either add something else to it or find a different source for funding. So there's information these little connections that say here they shift you to the FAQ. So instead of having a whole bunch of text here and there we just kind of send you over to the other place to learn about that. And there's some basic criteria. I'll go through this a little bit. What we want at the beginning is you know how did you decide to do this project? We'll get to the page in a minute. Did parents are parents asking for it? Are teams asking for it? Have you heard about another library that did this great thing and had this great response and you want to try it? Any of those or and more are fine ideas. We just want to know why are you doing this? And then we as I put right off here on my notes the most thing the most important thing after that are details details details because the biggest chance of not getting trying to do this is if you do not tell me what it is you want to do. So we're going to get to the page here a little bit. Going down some more and down at the bottom. Here are some links. So again there's a link to the FAQ. There's this just must take you back to the top that's kind of fun. We have two forms in the youth grants an online form but they're both online but there's the short form that's if you're asking for a thousand dollars or less in your grants amount and if you want more than a thousand dollars even if it's a thousand and one you'll need to use the long form. So I'm just going to click on the short form here and yeah we have more instructions because why wouldn't I? So basic things who you know name as you as you fill this in the box will grow if you just have a lot of things to say probably not in this section selected category is not going to have a whole bunch of text in it but other ones will so don't worry about the size of the box it'll grow as you type. Are these things where they could type in like a get this all together and write up like an award document and then just copy and paste the blocks of text over? Yes and then as a matter of fact that is recommended. Yeah type it up in a word processing document or that you have word smith it however much you want to and then copy and paste in here because once you're here putting things in there if you have to turn it off or go away and let somebody use a computer it will all disappear. It does not save it for you to come back to halfway through you've got to do it this you got to submit fill it all out in one shot. Someday we hope that will not happen but right now it does so we don't want you crying. So write something up ahead of time and go here see what the questions I need to answer then write up something in word and then come back here when you've got it already and copy and paste it. And after you write it up in words show it to somebody who has not been helping you write it up so it might be a board member or it might be your next-door neighbor and say does this make sense because they will catch things. The hardest thing is you know what you want to do and you put in the information but it might not be clear that what you really want is a gaming system or two. You need to tell them that okay so you got your category which might be celebrating books or team projects whatever you're doing and then goals the more goals it doesn't matter. I've had people have seven goals in there and that's nice but really you only need one you can have two you can have I just don't want you to sweat over I should probably put in five goals so I sound like I'm really doing something because I've received applications with plenty and they all relate but they don't seem to be well written and and like logical and achievable. There you go. Not something you can't really and measurable well the goals have to be measurable with the activities that have to be measurable. Oh you're talking about smart goals oh okay we'll get into that that's okay just have them go but one two three if you have seven that's fine I don't mean to disparage people who have seven goals it's just that I don't want everybody working so hard on that. Now here in section three this is where the meat of your application is for the youth grant this is what you really are going to do so if you tell me that you're going to have four programs in the fall to celebrate the fall and that's all you say about the program that's not going to work. If you're going to have four programs in the fall tell me that program one is going to be carving pumpkins carefully. Program two will be collecting leaves. Program three will be this and four that. Now you've told me that but this application is a plan so when you get to the part about carving pumpkins you go that's too dangerous I shouldn't do that let's make a let's make styrofoam pumpkins or something like that fine you're not set in stone on this one because you said here's what we want to do so right here is where you really tell me what it is your project is going to be and how you plan to carry it through and then we'll just kind of zoom along a little bit here. When you when you're going to begin the project and when you think you'll be done if it's not an ongoing thing how many youth you think will be involved and then the impact on the short form it just says impact I think the long form says evaluation this is where you tell me how you will um evaluate your program it's everything from the kids have fun to new families showed up at the library and got cars that we hadn't seen before so whatever whatever kind of impact you are hoping to make to put in put in in there oh yes and then the inevitable if I receive a grant I would make a presentation at a state or system youth event about what how your project went and it might just be five minutes stand up and say here's what we did and here's how it worked so not necessarily an encompassed live though it might be an encompassed live you could be on the show and then we get to the spreadsheet so I said something about gaming systems so all these said so far is we're going to have two gaming systems hopefully you told me to you're going to buy some gaming systems for our team program it'll be part of this activity okay so let's just say we're going to put it under equipment so that would be 600 now you need the system any of the games now you can't just buy a switch Nintendo switch or a PlayStation 4 and have no game it doesn't come with anything um well it depends on what you buy okay sometimes they're packaged with a bundle there are some online things that are free but you do want to plan you know that's a good point talk to your team group if you have a team advisory board or um just some teams that use the library and find out what they might like what you'd like so should we put that with all in the same slot um and the equipment or should we put the game under program materials supplies or library materials well that's the difference that's the thing let's just do program materials supplies and library materials isn't there a difference between one is like something that gets um like materials and supplies get used up it's like okay construction paper for cutting out right and then library materials is something that they then um would still have after the things over like if you were buying some books about sure gaming or either fiction or nonfiction then the game's gonna sell to go under library materials okay how much do i put up there how many games you're gonna buy games can average anywhere between 30 and 60 dollars for something new what's buy 150 dollars worth to give you like three games or if you get some used ones or older ones even more yeah please not very much well sorry see this is this is why you do your plan right write it all up before you start putting it in there do some research on how much this stuff costs i'm just throwing things off the top of my head here now here's here's an important part that i don't want you to miss so you put 200 under library materials as you scroll down passes and you you'll need to put in your local match right this is done the math ahead of time this grant does require a match how come this oh because i'm still in there that's why i haven't had it up here there we go now it's added it up to 800 so my local match where's my calculator needs to be let's see amount being requested as a grant from oh this is when you plan ahead of time how much you're going to need lots of times people say i want a thousand dollars because i want to do the short form so i want my grant to be a thousand dollars and then the rest of how i figure out what my local matches that's when they call me on the phone and say help me with math yeah and that's fine and that's okay call me on the phone so what i'm going to request from the library commission is let's see if it'll tell you if it doesn't work i'm going to ask for six hundred and fifty dollars from the library commission and that means my match i'm going for an all cash match because my friends group said i could have some money so how come it's still zero down there we don't have to click on it that might even add up right now down below the spreadsheet are these boxes that correspond to the categories above i didn't put anything in contracted services so i keep going down library materials so i'm going to say i want five games four two gaming systems okay whoops i can't talk that's okay but if you said five games um and name them right the teams have told you we want i named some for me um let's agree to drink one like um mario cart oh mario cart yeah that's a good fun multiple people can play mario cart for that um will be for the um nintendo switch switch yeah whoops why do i have to try and then part of the cave is that okay oh it's with the cave yeah because they have yeah it's okay no i'll fix it i don't care if things are misspilt okay so mario cart would be about if it's new or as it's used in any good condition 30 yeah okay it's been out a minute it's been out yeah so we'll say 30 so let's come down here this is how you came up with the number that you plugged in at the top that you're going to buy this one and i'll fix even fix cart and name them i would type something but yeah we started giving it an idea give me an idea okay so then down here where the number 13 with the equipment is here's where you typed in one nintendo switch whoops one playstation 4 okay so now at least i know what items you're going for but i'd like to know what are you going to pay for so we have 600 there so we're going to guess 180 there's deals out there now it depends you know to drive up and bundles available you might get a game bundling with that cost as well and that'd be nice don't cheat yourself on this by saying um target has he's on sale this week i'll put that number in because by the time you find out if you have a grant they're not on sale and you get the money and you have don't have enough money so put in what you think you're going to have to pay and if you get a better deal then you have more money for other stuff exactly yeah but in the game i put in the full going retail price of things many of the equipment and for any of your the grants that you're doing yeah because we can't once we've announced the money has been spread out amongst all these people we can't get you more yeah i'm sorry that's okay so it's not going to let me submit because i didn't say who i was or anything down here at the bottom it says save and submit the application that save only means you'll get a copy and we'll get a copy it does not mean you can go away and come back because we've already said that okay see now it starts with the very top anything that's wrong it'll say it'll tell you start here it takes you right back there so if my math was wrong when we get everything else filled in it would be a warning about that too it would say no you don't have this right call sally it doesn't say call sally but that's what you should do yeah don't call me there right now i'll be gone next week monday through thursday for the csft annual meeting but otherwise i'll be back now you want to also mention down if you scroll the bottom the um the extra signature page that has to be said too i was i dotted down this that's a good thing there is there's okay so there's an extra signature page can't see okay oh now i see it that's okay we're happy you you can see what i say is that for the use grants the support documents can come in the mail or email with the next week the deadline is for the application form itself so if your library director is out of town or your board president with them won't be back till thursday don't panic it's okay if you're doing this at the last minute yeah because we can work with that if you just let me know well i can't send my signature page in until in two weeks is that okay yes because the announcement of the grant isn't until wow i should have written that down november eight eight look how it's right there good job we try to be organized here so this is a page you then have to um print out and actually sign and then after it's actually signed after putting it outside we do need an actual signature of someone it's not all electronic we're still doing this one little bit but then you can scan it and email it to me after they've actually signed the piece of paper so so the children's library might be the project director the library director has to sign why the board president and then the name of your library because sometimes i don't know who this one is that's true it comes from the they will this will come separate from the application so we need to be able to match them up to know makes sense yeah for sure because i can look you up it makes life easier for me yay so my main points i want to make one more time oh partnering i meant to say that too accredited public libraries are eligible to apply for the grant if you know the director or somebody has the nearby unaccredited library you can partner to stick together like you want to do the gaming systems for teens you can include them as a partner in your application and i think does it mention that i'm here somewhere oh it probably does not wait they're here's eligible and the credit library but then i think we do mention you don't really see it they are doing my bad that's right but yes um partnering yes is encouraged yet with another library with a school and my rule is whatever you are purchasing so if you're buying the two systems and some books about gaming some fiction books that have gaming as part of their plot line 51 of those items need to reside at the public library the accredited public library the one who's the actual eligible yeah and 49% can reside at the other location or you might just say well we're sharing these they're going to have a game day on Thursday afternoon so they'll take both systems and the games and then they'll give them back because i'm going to have something next week that's fine that's fine but as far as things that go into a permanent collection like books and other things it needs to go at least 51% to the accredited public library that's that's your end is the accredited public library so ask questions yeah do you have any questions about the youth grants type them in call me later yep so so youth grants are the first grants that is due at the end of this month so September 30th so if you haven't done one yet get on it we've got quite like i said we've got a bunch of money to set aside for these this year we did pretty good so we do have um enough to do a quite a figure out quite a few grants i think to different places when we were talking about partnering i would i mentioned an unaccredited library you could also partner with a school any kind of school so that's the only way but with some other information i actually had um last year an internship grant that the intern was shared between um the nighard center and bankcroft and the public library so there's some sort of organization like that that the public library would want to um a museum or a site like that is sort of a site a zoo or whatever parks and rack you know get creative but make that that your accredited public libraries are into all of these grants actually that's our our way everything starts off with all right so all right any questions go ahead and type them in we'll grab them i'm going to go back to the main page again um because next our next grant up for um deadline is the internship grant that i just mentioned internship grants that's one that i do i'm in in charge of those they are due in october and if you look at the day two you notice we did one each month so if you're if you're planning on trying to and you can apply for all of these grants that you want to if you've got something on your library that fits all four of these criteria go for it um also i'll say here in general if you've applied i've had people asking me about the grants if you've applied previously like last year yes you can totally apply again this year for something else for an intern to do something else something else for youth grants do a different project um for the CE grant if you attended something previously you want to attend what we're doing this year yes you're we don't have any sort of rules about if you got one last year you can't get one this year i've had libraries apply in two or three phases where they have overall plan and a big project yeah that takes one years yeah and that's okay too yeah you're not guaranteed that you'll get it the next year you may have to wait another year after that but it's okay to ask for and that's good to mention because our grants are one-year things we don't do grants that are for um grants that we're participating in like the makerspace are a multi-year thing but ours are a one-shot thing you're applying for something you're going to do generally speaking in 2020 it looks like we did have something pop up here um oh yeah sure uh so i can several several libraries partner for the youth grants perhaps the Sarpie County libraries that would be great yeah not a problem all you need is a a letter from each whoever's writing the grant would need to include in their support material a letter from each library director saying yes we're enthusiastically we're we're we're more on board with this project yes we're aware of it we're i hope they were wanting to participate it's just perfect thanks yeah absolutely so as i was saying each of our grants is due each month um the september 30th is the youth ones october 16th is the due date for internship then november 13th for library improvement grants then december 13th for CE so um you just have to worry about one at a time not multiple ones at the same time so the next ones up are the internship grants this is a program done it kind of pops over to different pages you are now hiring at your library website internship grants um general idea overreaching goal of this is to try and encourage high school or college students to eventually join the library field to become librarians potentially it's okay it's after doing an internship at your library that they don't go into library school that's okay that is not a requirement it's just to give them a taste of the kind of things that do happen in libraries the kind of work they could be involved in this so it is for high school and college students who have never worked in a library before um so this would be your trying to give them the first time now if they have been a volunteer at your library that's okay the key is that they haven't paid previously for any work um in a library but if you know we know we've had some had some interns where it was a volunteer who was really really involved in helping out the library and was really kind of getting into that I might want to do this as a career then you give them the opportunity of this paid internship and that's the key here this is a paid internship um a thousand dollars or five hundred dollars you can apply for depends on how much time and money you want to be paying your intern this one does not have any match required anything it's just we give you the money for you to pay the person to work at your library for whatever it is you wanted them to be doing here's some information about the grant cycle it's been open since august due up to over 16th and then you'll know by November 1st and anticipated this thing goes well um if uh you are receiving it any project or program or whatever you um will have them do be doing needs to be completed by November 30th of next year that is our of the way the fiscal year works for the funding for this so they can start at any time you know we give you the award announcement as of November 1st you'll know um that generally these will then start in 2020 if you have something that starts in December that's okay if you're really on top of these things or even in November if that's what you want it um that's okay as I said we call these the 2020 grants because that's generally where people you know they apply for things now in the fall and for stuff they're doing next year I think were you going to mention something about that that it could happen earlier or yeah the thing is because our grants are announced in November 8th well here's the meaning of November 8th yeah as soon as it's announced and you're told you have it you can apply to us for the money yes and you can start buying after I hang up the phone having told you you got to start buying stuff if you're if you wanted to do a December project and don't buy stuff before you hear the word because the dates are important on the on the receipt but you can start buying then and sometimes people who have a project start a holiday thing or something sure yeah but most most of them are for next year just how it works out yeah um this one also it works the same way accredited public libraries may apply but we encourage you to partner um with any um a school a museum as I said this is when we had last year um with an iHeart Center and the public library they shared one person and um they work part the time at the library and then part the time at the at the center but you do that however you want to um you can have it anywhere 500 to a thousand dollars generally you do 500 or a thousand but you can do a number in between that if your math comes out that you and we figure out how many hours they're going to work um we do um acquire you pay them minimum wage of what is the minimum wage in Nebraska right now and with information all about that on here um so the requirements they as I said already high school or college student can never have been employed um nor intern at the library before um volunteers are okay so for paying them there are two different ways that you could potentially do this um if you can pay them a stipend where you just um they work forever many hours and then you just cut them a check for the full amount and then the um intern is required is responsible for figuring out taxes and how much they have to pay or you can hire them as a part-time temporary employee just like you'd hire any other employee where all the taxes are all handled by your um hr whoever handles all of that just like anybody else who works the library and then the taxes are all deals with that way all of that then is part of that thousand dollars we're giving you make sure that includes um what you pay them as part of that but their taxes are part of that thousand as well there is here's a link to the application form here it also has a signature page same thing as Sally I think all of ours have this yeah so you do the form and then use a signature page um the application here is an online form all the basic info of who you are who's going to be there um to provide for someone different than the librarian or the library director how much you want for them are you going to have more than one you can have more than one intern if you're if you can do that if you can um have enough projects for two people to two extra staff people to keep track of up to you and then there's some information here on some preliminary plans and budget how you're going to do this describe what they're going to do scheduled activities all this information here on the form and I'm going to go back to the main page and then you see the bottom here it links you also to the signature page and then the submission feature page in this case it pops up with a pdf that you can print out and sign and then since you're emailing to me you can also mail it you can fax it however you need to just get it to me works fine and we don't need the original original is as long as you've emailed or faxed or scanned it to me that's fine um you go back to the grant page we do have on here as well to help you with filling out those parts of the form information about proposed timeline sample orientation plans so things to give you an idea of what you could do with this intern and then there's an actual guidebook to um internships in general is done by the department of economic development here in Nebraska it's really helpful just for getting an idea of what you could do with your intern I will mention too we did kind of mention the makerspace grants that are that were the makerspace that we have here the library innovation studios any library who's a participant in that will also automatically be given an internship um an intern an internship grant so it's an auto you don't have to apply for that it's an automatic thing so if you are a library coming up or you are thinking about being one of our new libraries that we've opened up for applications and you want an extra person to work with your makerspace with library innovation studios don't worry about this i'll be reaching out to you to offer you that as a whole separate project this could be a another intern and we did have some libraries last year who had their makerspace intern and then a second one to do something out to the library we're going to some a reading program work on some archiving project whatever it was they wanted to do so that's our internship grants are pretty pretty simple get an extra staff person we give you the money to pay them nice yeah i mean i don't know is that much more to say about that one uh uh yeah we do have also and i'm going to show this here too when i go back to the main page you'll notice who got this grant recipients database link under each one of these yeah if you're curious about who's received grants before and what they were for you can look here i mean you look by your city by a year or if you wanted to see show me all of the um internship grants like to the history of the program and then you can see who they who got them how much it was um these just talk about that they were you know so you can see if you're wondering if you want to talk to another library who's done this in the past and maybe get some advice you can go here and find out for some of the other grants like the children's and um what are we calling them now these grants for excellence you can see a little description of what the grant was for little one-line blurb so if you're looking for ideas or if you're wondering if they've been done go here and see oh hey look somebody did this kind of thing let me talk to Ainsworth about this project comes think i'm doing something similar i'm gonna get some advice from them or if you just want to borrow someone else's idea and go with it run with it yourself that's fine too so that's something to and then you know be aware of you're just getting some more information um we're getting a little closer time here if we run over we'll just keep going it's all right uh the other grant the next grant up and if you have any questions go ahead and type them in about the internship grants or about um any of them here the next one that i handle is library improvement grants this is one that we did not do last year to your shortened funding but this year we're able to do it and it's due the next month in november so that's our it's our november to 13th and you'll know by december 1st if you got it library improvement grant this comes from federal funding this is generally things um it can be programs um and this would be the view grants for excellence would be if you're doing a program for you obviously children and teens but if you wanted to do something a program for anything above that age wise library improvement grant is something you could use for that so this could be for a program for adults for seniors and the senior citizens not senior teams um anything you know beyond the youth grants you could do this for programs this is also would be for things like equipment uh that you need wow we need a new microphone printer we need to know whatever um we want to buy a 3d printer to have our own maker space all we need to upgrade something um the security system is old and we need to update that we want to put in a while we had some library do um electronic signage like in those big like family signs like you have you know on the front of their building things like that um repairs upgrades to your building that kind of thing um digitization project I mean it runs again it really and you can see here it's based on some of these lsta purposes as they call them for specific things and these are as you can see you know it's federal vague wording facilitating access to resources encouraging resource sharing promoting literacy education like long learning so these are things you need to think about when you're writing your library improvement grant that you're these are the reasons why you're doing it and so you match up what you need to what you want the piece of equipment the program the upgrade to your building with one of these reasons that lsta has for um helping libraries um this is available to also private and public libraries you are welcome to partner just like the other one same same deal that said before but also we have identified some specific institutional libraries as well that are eligible on their own so um I'm not sure what's going on Geneva but um it's an eligible use the rehab centers in Geneva and Carney the corrections facilities the regional centers um all of these are available to apply on their own as well so um they don't these organizations do not have to partner with a public library with they've given them a little extra this is the one grant that does have that kind of extra small list there but accredited public libraries if you're not on that list and you're not in a credit public library you reach out to a public library and you can do a partnership with them for any of these things um this is also a matching grant it's the same thing as the youth one 25 percent match and at least 10 percent must be cash um if you are doing anything internet related because this is anything that's going to be online this is money coming from lsta so they do require that you comply with the SIPA Act the Children's and Internet Services Protection Act so you do need to be in compliance with that um here's the application for it online application and this has got a lot of this one is because we're doing it with um federal funding it's a lot of check the boxes to match up with lsta rules so pick what fifth yours then you've got some maybe you can start typing in same kind of thing as the youth one and the intern one any of these things that are big boxes to type in pre-write it somewhere else on the word some something like that and then copy it paste it into here afterwards intend what activities are going to be doing so you can see here this um just you check off the right boxes it is a lot of checking it is it's kind of pre-done a lot there's a lot of these things that because this is federal funding they want to know certain things when we do our report to them afterwards so this is how we gather that from you guys and then somewhere near the end should have there we go your budget where you can put in same thing as families i'm not going to go through it here because it's the same example the interest of money it does the math for you and figures it all out if you have questions definitely give me a call and um you do have to with this one if um do the library improvement internet safety certification this because it has to be in compliance with SIPA if you're doing anything online related there's a little extra form there um and then you just send it it all comes through to me yes i don't believe so it's going to pop this up because if you haven't submitted it yet there's things blank there and it thinks you want to you didn't do your form yet um so this one i would say definitely because it does have a lot of these LSTA rules and things take a look at the list of the previous ones that people have done because this is pretty much all across the board there's pretty much anything and everything you could potentially apply for for this if it is really broad just think of anything you need done at your library and apply for it here anything that's for the youth and children use the youth branch to apply for that one there will be a report at the end that you have to complete a completion report kind of redundant but yeah um that i will ask for you will you will submit afterwards about how you did things um was the purpose met with the intent met all of that so um that will be something that you'll have to wrap up was afterwards speaking of what you just said a minute ago what's it's a youth project go with the youth grant some of the restrictions on the youth grants for excellence are that you cannot apply for a new computer and that's our specific reason if you're getting a 3d printer and you need a laptop to work with it then you know it's more special case yeah that's okay but if the if the computers in your children's area are old and you want a new computer the youth grants won't do that and i don't know with the um we have had some people apply for equipment generally that's not what the purpose of is it for no um most people apply for extras the kinds of equipment like um microphone readers i know we did the all computers for a while yeah also furniture yeah youth grants won't buy you furniture you can buy the furniture and apply that to your match if you need special furniture a desk or if you want to yeah but you can't use the grant money to pay for the furniture or food sorry yeah food is not something so if you're going to have treats or snacks at any of these events the same thing here that would not be part of your budget it's the actual local match right that would come from the local so that's not money we would give you that's not something we would give you money for that something you would provide and say we are going to provide the snacks for the team gaming event and the grant the youth grant will apply will provide the actual equipment in the game yeah doing good yeah any questions about the library improvement grants any questions on the internship grants before we jump on so now i'll mention about the internship grants that didn't well is on there there are various um surveys and forms um that go along with the internship grant as well a startup um a and it'll be a document it'll be sent afterwards there's a form for uh your intern to say how they um what they think at the beginning of the grant program what do i know about libraries and how learned you know do i think i'm going to be doing here and then a wrap up one afterwards showing hopefully hopefully showing they learn something and they know something now about what libraries are all about so it's going to be some um uh this one has i think the most paperwork involved as far as surveys and things you have to submit um but it's not paper paperwork it's go to online form into the questions the supervisor does the intern does at the beginning and at the end i know for the youth ones they have to and for the library improvement they have to submit receipts yeah afterwards and then they get the reimbursement type thing correct and another thing to say is when you submit your receipts submit all the receipts because you need to show me that you did spend your local management sometimes people just send me enough to cover the grant and i have to call them and say um and be a little bit more oh yeah i had those the ones i just thought i only needed this much yeah yeah no because submit everything yeah the library improvement news also it is you do have to put up the money and they use for the receipts and then reimburse you internship is the opposite you request the funding for the the site and the money to pay whenever you want to and we send it to you ahead of time because then you can decide how you're going to pay the person like i said if you're going to have it be a salary you'll pay them out of the salary you're going to pay them at the end of their time some sometimes they pay halfway through the internship and then 50 percent of it and have to pay through afterwards that when you request you get it beforehand because there isn't anything to really submit to me saying here you know give it to you first and then you just say yes we paid them we have a question here about the internship grant you mentioned high school or college for the internship grant is there a minimum age um there's actually is information here about that that you can have someone who is underage and there are specific rules in Nebraska about um i think we've had 16 15 year old there's some um here we go underage requirement um and there is a form here under 16 that is it's going to you can have um younger is it be up to you to decide how young you think they can do what you want them to do but there are requirements about what's the how the hours they can work and how long they can work if they're under 16 so that's going to be up to you um there is no minimum but you know this is a paid internship so do think about what you're going to be having them do and there is a form for you to fill out at the from the Department of Labor about age requirements so um look into that yeah can imagine you want anybody too young but you know children that they mature everyone and matures in a different rate so your choice but do be aware of what you will have to do something different of how they can be paid how they are paid and what hours they work if they're under 16 all right so our final grant which is the last one due in december is this education and training grant and i will hand it over to you call me to tell you guys what we're doing with this news and this will be super quick yeah well um no it's fine because this this year it is yeah um we're just nothing okay um so this year we are just doing for CE grant there it is um we are focusing on the arsl conference in 2020 they're going to be in um Wichita, Kansas next year september 30th to october 3rd um since this year's conference was just last week they don't have a whole lot of information on their website yet but they do have this little preview um about which time and where it's going to be um the last two years the conference is sold out but they said that this year is that a much bigger yeah venue so that shouldn't be a problem this year at all um and christus said that their theme this year is soar soar with libraries i think is what it is yes and um Wichita is like the home of Boeing and there's a lot of aviation related things have been about Wichita so that's their theme store with libraries and soar is an acronym for something that i cannot remember i was at the arsl conference last week and i can't remember it something about services are yeah well now that this year's conference is over there'll be more information coming without it so we're thinking way ahead of time but um but registration usually is in the spring for it right pretty early yeah so the idea of this is since it is so close that we want to promote this and it's an excellent conference oh yeah um and so you're trying to get as many Nebraska librarians there as we can um each grant recipient will be reimbursed up to five hundred dollars um this can cover the registration cost pre-conference registration but that doesn't include any like tours or networking social kind of events um meals mileage and lodging and aerosel is great because i know you notice is meals not curve registration aerosel is actually providing with quite a bit of the meal um every day of the conference there is lunch breakfast and lunch is provided so really the only meals you have to figure out is on your own is dinners dinners are the day you're traveling maybe right your travel days if it's before like yeah i had to travel before the conference started just because it's hard to get from Lincoln to Vermont and in a quick way so this year but going down to Kansas it's like from here it's like a three-hour drive or something to which it's uh it depends on where you're coming from in the states so um yeah so a lot of the meals are included in your registration cost to aerosel so that's a really nice thing and they do offer um they do ask about your any sort of dietary requirements you may have and they will include that um so this application is due December 13th uh let's see and then if you get the grant then i'll send more information about how to request reimbursement in that paperwork um but the application is down here it's pretty short pretty basic um your information and then just why you want to attend this conference what do you think you'll learn out of it um how is this going to help you provide better service to your libraries so something more than just i want to go it sounds fun i want to keep people yeah all those things will happen but yeah yeah we assume that hopefully happens but why this particular conference and then your estimated expenses obviously um your mileage your lodging it might be different once they announce different costs um hopefully they'll start announcing some of that soon but you can get an idea of different you can go to the different travel sites and um you get some estimated costs and again and then just submit um yeah and i think this too is i mean you're going to be putting in here what things might cost yeah the 500 is not going to cover everything necessarily and that's okay probably it probably won't um whatever registration is in your hotel for how many days this is a longer-ish conference it's like this year there was a pre-conference and then two and a half days of full session so if you're doing the whole thing you've got four days worth of being there and all of those you know associated nights but the 500 will help you get there something else that was to mention about this i'm sorry i'm jumping in but i know that because i wasn't talking to you um our regional library systems here in Nebraska do offer grants for continuing education scholarship grants to attend conferences as well and if you want to apply for them you can as they say stack i mean you can apply for this grant from us for 500 and then one from one of whichever regional system you're in and have both of those to help you pay for the um you cover even more of the cost that is um that is okay so theirs are usually a lot of varies um sometimes they're smaller amounts depending also on what they're giving them for 250 a hundred dollars whatever but you know every little bit helps but you are all allowed to apply for more than one so look and see what your systems are offering as well to see if that will help you as well for this for ARSL they also offer scholarships themselves there's lots of there's lots of ways to get to that to an ARSL conference and i don't know if we mentioned ARSL it was on the page association for rural and small libraries so this is a conference really focused on like what 95 percent of our libraries in the state the smaller um libraries and you can look on their website at past conferences oh yeah you can see the kind of examples of sessions and keynote speakers that they had and kind of get an idea of what might be there might be might be coming yeah oh so we have a comment from Tammy um Joe i got one of the ARSL scholarships two years ago apply yeah so absolutely you know go for that when they all the names they announced theirs too so then the only other part of the application again is we'll need a support form just who's applying library um if you're the director you'll have your board president sign it if your staff or library and you'll have your director sign it and each each applicant should fill out the application themselves because we'll need that little description of why you would like to attend so um so a director shouldn't apply for all of their staff no please not directors we've had too many confusion too much confusion about that and the director does on behalf of the person going in and the person going doesn't know yeah what's being written or yeah and they'll need to explain why they want to attend yeah do it for yourself but you know keep in contact in communication with your director about it yeah directors encourage your staff to apply um yes more than one person from the same library can get this as well right i mean if there's no there's no rules about that yeah we'll be giving them out until we run out of the money yeah so please let us give you money the last time we did this uh was when we dedicated the entire c grant to and it was also for ARSL was in 2013 when if some of you remember it was right in Omaha actually and at that time we gave out 40 grants there's 40 people so we're hoping to get at least that much when we're just driving down to Kansas this time yeah we've got the money set aside for you for this yeah anything else no somebody have a question it may have any questions do you want to ask about any of the grants that we have here we're giving out this year so that's the main grant stage i thought you wanted my coffee no i'll have my own coffee i would never take someone else's coffee no so any questions you have now you've got us all here type in the question section and tell us if you want to use your microphone um just to summarize first up youth grants do September 30th questions and comments sally next up internship grants do October 16th that would be me library improvement grants do November 13th also me and then the last one for this year December 13th the CE grants to attend ARSL in Kansas dr holly um okay so a question came in and i'm not sure can cash match for a library improvement grant be from a different grant um if it is not a federally funded grant okay so if you have a federal funding organization that gives grants to they might be a business or that's okay but if it's federal money it cannot be the math so yes but not another federal grant something else yes good question yeah there are lots not the grants out there um and we have more information on our page about other grants that are available and i'm planning on trying to update that too as well other funding sources we got a few here but um quick google search for grants for libraries you'll find some all sorts of things but we gotta get a little creative too like you said look community places that may just give grants for public entities you know because of your you are a public library yeah there's the part of the dollar general grants oh yeah the dollar general targets grants before um yeah walmart maybe i can't remember so yeah yes with restrictions any other questions you have right now like i said we've got these we've worked really hard to set aside money into to amongst ourselves negotiate with each other um to be able to offer all four of our grants this year and we're hoping that'll be an ongoing thing that we'll be able to keep doing but we need you guys to apply we have money we want to give it away that's what it's for just a few research yeah forms to know yeah form report yeah um oh goodness yes okay it's a great question um you had mentioned that for the intern grant minimum wage requirement is that a minimum or can the library pay the intern more with the money oh yeah you can pay the more per hour if you want to yeah we're just giving you you just have to make sure that his the hourly wage when they when you do up all the math how many hours they worked compared to the thousand dollars we gave you that it did come up to be the minimum wage but if you want to pay them more per hour um so then it would be for that thousand dollars they work fewer hours right yes less hours for more per hour absolutely yes that's up to you to decide how much you want to pay the um to your to your intern but just make sure you meet that minimum yeah that brings up something i didn't mention before at least to me is in your local match for the youth grants for excellence there is a cash requirement of a certain percentage and then there's also the equivalent in like staff time that's dedicated to that project so when you are figuring that out it's similar it's um how many hours you worked on um being there for the gaming planning the gaming sessions being there for the gaming session planning organizing yeah organizing and then um those hours times your hourly salary equals x amount of dollars that cannot be paid from the grant it has to be the local match so sometimes people and you can put in more you can say you know what this is what i really worked on that and here's well and i just want you to know that that's fine as long as you meet the minimum yes you have to meet the minimum yeah and so i just mentioned that too you know yeah all right and so this is thanks ladies lots of great information good we hope you that was the idea yeah get this all out there for you all right any other questions anything last minute you want to ask us before we wrap up for today you guys all know where to contact us call the library commission and ask really one of us to pin in which grant that you're interested in and we'll help you um like give your advice get you going on it um that's okay there's no rules about don't talk to us ahead of time we want to give away this money so we will help you fill out the grant the application the best way you can so that we can send the money out yeah i've talked with people on the phone is that same thing say well how should i explain this here's what i want to do and then yeah we'll ask it out with you then when my team looks at the application i recruit myself they the rest of the team makes the decision because i've helped input write it a little too much yeah and i'm happy to help you with that yeah also your system administrator might oh if you want to learn something just show them what you've written and see what they say it really helps to clarify what it is you're trying to communicate to us having another pair of eyes on what you've written always helps yeah for all of them all right well it's an after i think we'll wrap it up then yeah um look at our web pages uh start apply for all of these um get that youth one and you've got to the end of this month um for that one so i am going to go to the encompass live website which is actually on our website under our education and training or you can also use the search engine of your choice and google encompass live and you will find us um i'll show you here while i'm here these are upcoming shows but this is where the archive for today show will be in addition to being posted at the top of that our grant page as i said our archives are all here it'll be at the top of the list we'll have a link to the recording hopefully by the end of the day today as long as youtube and go to webinar and everybody cooperates all of you who attended and who registered for day show again email from me letting you know that it's ready um we also push it out onto our mailing list and social media twitter facebook all the places out there so let you know that it's available i'll also mention while we're here on the archives this is uh you see here with a search feature this is the archive is going all the way back to the beginning of encompass live and compass live started in january 2009 so we're in 11th year yeah um it's been a long time but we have all of our archives here if i scroll all the way down you see those original shows so um we have set the search so that you can do the search the entire archives or if you want to just most recent 12 months you got something really some real current information um if you do search all the archives or any of these just pay attention to date when something was originally broadcast there will be some things on here that everything has a date of the original date there will be things in here where the services doesn't exist anymore the links may be broken the the service might have changed completely uh so you know just pay attention to what date we originally put these out but we are librarians is what we do we archive things for historical purposes as long as you know youtube is out there and we're there's always be out there for you to look at so um just pay attention when you're watching something to how old it is depending to some of them um stand up stand the test of time that's pretty fine not all we do have a facebook page for encompass live so if you are a big facebook user give us a like over there we post reminders use your reminder to log into the age show um or might we'll let announce on here when the recordings are available no i don't want to log in right now um when coming shows are coming up so um if you do like to use facebook keep up with things give us a like over there and you'll see um what we're doing with the show i hope you join us next week then we were talking about um the Coretta Scott King book awards 50 years of the book awards being done the american library association um you know does the awards every year and this year 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King book awards and Alan Bailey who is from the East Carolina University and is part of the team that picks and awards these is going to be with us next week to talk about them and what they're doing this year what they've been doing for celebrating hopefully things that you can do you know we're in september but there's still lots of 2019 left that you can do to celebrate them a little bit more in your library so please do sign up and join us for that show we also have our other upcoming shows here i'm starting to get some more october november dates filled in keep an eye on that for the open dates i'm negotiating with people uh and do be aware uh october second is the one week we do the show every week except the week of our state annual conference um the Nebraska library association annual conference this year it is the first week in october it is actually a joint Iowa conference with Nebraska library association Iowa library association and Nebraska school librarians association yeah um so we're doing a joint conference with them so that's the one week we'll be off no encompassed live that week enjoy the uh conference up in la vista and um network with some of your Iowa library colleagues should be a fun day all right so that wraps it up for today doesn't look like we have any other desperate questions thank you everyone for being here thank you samly and howling for uh talking about our dreams um send in those applications we have money to give away all right and we'll see you next time on n cup us live thanks bye bye