 There we go. All right. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista 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. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today, and that is posted to our archives for you to watch later at your convenience. And I'll get into showing you the archives, how to get the archives at the end of today's show. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of our topics we have on Encompass Live. We probably don't have people not from Nebraska here today, but just in case. The Library Commission, Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska. So we provide services and training and programming to all types of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries, public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, really anything and everything. Our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. We bring in guest speakers to present an Encompass Live sometimes from all across the country. But we also have Library Commission staff that come on and do presentations for us, and that is what we have today. Today you have almost all of the Library Development Department here today with us. And that that's my department too. In addition to hosting our Encompass Live here, I am the Library Development Director. And we in Library Development, we handle issuing the Library Commission grants to public libraries and state-run institutions in the state. We have a grant program that we run pretty much every year. Almost all the grants every year. Some years we've had to skip some. And today we are going to talk about the grants that we have coming up for next year for 2024. And all of our programs we have. And with me today is Sally Snyder. Good morning, Sally, who is our coordinator of Children's and Youth Services. And she handles our youth grants. And Holly Duggan, good morning, Holly. And she is our CE coordinator and she handles Archanting Education and Training grants. And there's one more person in the department, Mary Gival. She's our administrative assistant and she's not here with us today. She handles all the paperwork and everything behind the scenes for us to make sure we can keep all these grants going. All right, so I am going to pop over to our main Library Commission website to start today. So I can show you how to get to our grants if you do go to our library website. And if you share out that the grants are open, like here's our blog post about grants opening for applications, they did actually all open last Friday on September 15th. So all these grants are now available. They opened for applications. It was at the end of the day we had a lot of last minutes behind things we had to do with some of the forms and what not to get them working. And at the end of the day on Friday, September 15th. So we posted about that. And from there you'll find links directly to all the different grant pages. But in case you're just here on the library website, you can find them over. You can search for grants and I'll see grants if you want to up here. If you type that in it will come up with grants. And then there's our grant this year the grant commission. The question grant schedule is what it's called and that brings us to the main grants website for all of our grants that we offer to the commission. There is also a flyout menu here when you're anywhere on the library commission website this meant these menus here here on the left and you can click on grants. And it's for grants funding all sorts of ways to get money for your life. Excuse me for your library and over here is our nlc related grants and this top link here about nlc grants will bring you to the same library commission grant schedule page. You'll see here there's lots of other links to other grants we've given out recently as well. So if you're interested in previous programs grants that we've done our book cares. And then there are specific links to each of our library commission offered grants to education, internship, library improvement and youth grants for excellence. Those are the four main grants that the library commission does every year. And those are the four grants that we are going to talk about today. All right, so as I said there are four grants, and we used to do them on a staggered schedule, different grants do opening up and being due different times of the year different months. But last year we switched to doing them all at the same time and it seemed to work. So we're sticking with that again. All of our grants opened last Friday, September 15, all of our grants are due November 17. And you will know by the end of the year December 31 at the latest, possibly before then, if you are going to receive a grant, depending on which ones you applied for. So they're all in the same schedule. We think it's much easier to keep track of rather trying to remember which one is due which day. Some of our libraries, you have the same people applying for these grants so having to keep track of all the different deadlines and everything we decided that's not worry about that. And other deadlines like completion reports and submitting paperwork and whatnot that might be different but as far as applying and being notified we're keeping this out of the same schedule for all four of our grants. And let's just start. I think we just start at the top. These are just listed not in the other just listen alphabetical order here. There's no, you know, rhyme or reason beyond that, or how they are listed. Let's just start at the top of the CE continue education and training grants. Holly, if you want to talk about yours, I can go to that page and you can guide me through what where to click and what to do. You just want to click on it. So this is just a short description of the grants but then down below is the. There's the grant information and then there's the previous grant database if you'd ever want to go back and see what other conferences courses or other projects that some libraries or librarians have gotten in the past for this grant. But if you just want to click on information, we can start there. So for these CE grants, we're trying to focus on improving library service through continuing education opportunities. That you can take back to your library and improve your library work day to day or bigger projects for training multiple staff members. And sometimes like this last round we focused on just a RSL conference, but this round we're opening it up to online learning courses, conferences and workshops and bigger projects for training staff members. This round of CE grants because of the way budget years work. These will be for applications courses conferences that will be done before July 1. So anything occurring January 1 to July 1 of 2024. These are the CE grants applications. So we divided these into the three different sections. That is something that's new. I'll point out to anybody is wondering about they've never heard that before we started that up just last year for the first time. Yep. We were we were having trouble here with like, like I said the different funding year or fiscal years where the money comes from to pay for which grants. So there's two rounds of grants. The first one is here and then I think last year we opened in March for the second round, which would be after July, anything after July 1. So the second round of grants, a second application period opening up for these grants and this is for these grants only. It's the only one that does that. So if you're looking for doing something after July 1 in 2024, wait for that second round to open up. Hopefully you're not trying to plan, you know, next fall conferences and next year's ARSL when it's happening today. Yeah. So hopefully that makes things easier, but anything before July 1 is what you apply for this time. And we have this divided into the three different sections. So the first thing you'll see on the webpage is for the online learning. These are for any online courses that you might want to take. Some of the courses, examples, you know, library, juice Academy, ALA, any of the ALA divisions, info people. Other courses can be applied for and taken just as long as your application shows how it relates to your work as a librarian or in the library. So this could be some of the management classes or we've had people take the grants writing a course on how to write a grant or some people have taken Spanish speaking for libraries. So really just in that application, just let us know how this helps you in your work and it doesn't need to be restricted to just those ALA courses. And yeah, examples. Yeah, that says your other things too. I know something new that other and we've started getting into it too. I know you have Holly other states are using an offering some things training through niche Academy. Right. And there's some things in there that are being available to anybody around the country. So that might be a place to go looking for library related things as well. Right. And that goes for if you're an individual taking just a course, you would apply for the online learning. But if you're looking for maybe a larger staff training that's down below it's a different application. Because they don't include if you're taking any college or academic other academic courses for credit that's not covered by this grant. This is just professional development see kind of forces. Like all the grants to apply you need to be employed or a board member of an accredited public library or state run institutional library. I think about that as you can see we do have a link that explains that lists who those are. So if you're wondering what we mean by that this is for many of the grants. We've decided that things places like this regional centers veterans homes correctional centers, women's correctional center youth correction youth rehab and treatment centers. All of these are eligible for our grants when it says they're listed there. For both conference and online courses are reimbursement grants. So you, you'll apply for the grant. You get it. Yay. Then you're responsible for taking the course registering completing the course or attending the conference making all your own travel plans. And then once the course or the conference is done, then you'll request reimbursement from us so there's not. I don't make any travel plans or registration plans. So that's one thing to just kind of keep in mind. And then for conferences and workshops, they really work the same way. It can be a virtual or in person conference. Eligible costs can be registration, travel, mileage, hotels, registration fees. The only thing that it doesn't cover are some of those social and networking events that happen sometimes that are extra. They need to be sponsored by a professional library organization or association. Oregon, if it's outside of a library association, it just, you just need to show on the application how it relates to your library or how it will improve your library and service and to your community. So again, if you're looking at maybe a technology conference, that's awesome, but you just need to explain to us what you're hoping to bring back to your library. Same thing about being qualified as a Nebraska public library. So then down the third section is the bigger CE and training projects. These would be for funding for like a staff training project, multiple staff members. Again, it would need to be an accredited public library. You can partner with other community organizations or agencies, but the accredited public library would need to be the one who submits the application. We have some previous projects like the ALA road trip, the trustee training. And again, you can go to the grants database if you want to see some more of those or in service day, we've had that board members, volunteers, advocates of the libraries, other supporters can be included in the training. But each of these grants also require that 25% match. Just for this one. Right, just for that one. The conferences and the online learning courses. They don't require the match. It's just these larger training projects that do. So then down below at the bottom are the different applications. That first one, if you click on that one's for individuals. So if you're an individual applying for just yourself to take an online class. Or to attend a conference or a workshop. That's the application you'll use. So this is for the first two. They have the same form. Yep. And going through this. That that short justification that's where you're explained, you know, this is what I want to take. This is how it's going to help service in my library. This is what I'm hoping to learn. And then your estimated expenses. You might just have to look at, especially for conferences, you might have to look at like previous year to get an estimate estimate of what the registration costs might be. And that's fine to estimate. Again, this is a reimbursement grant. So at the end of it, you'll submit the actual expenses. And it's okay if they don't match up exactly because we know this far ahead you've got to, you've pretty much have to guess. And then obviously if you're taking an online course you won't have the lodging and meals and things so you can just put a zero in there. And then just submit the application. And we also need. So it's linked here, and it's linked on the previous page but that acknowledgement and indication of support form. If you have a copy of this, you can just fax or email it to me and filled out saying that, you know, this is name, this is what I'm applying for and then either have your director sign it or your board president, just depending on if you're a director or not. Just saying that the library knows that you're applying for this grant and supports you attending. And then so if you go back to this is an online form there's little button heads go down yet. It's where you submit the application. Right. Okay. And then it's that that acknowledgement form is also linked right there that second link. So then that number three that grant application. That is the application for the larger staff training projects. You can see it's a lot more detailed. So what the project is what what the goals are for this training. Describe sort of the timelines what CE need is this project based on who's going to be involved how are you going to evaluate the training. And again, so then that budget. You'll have filled out with your cost training equipment. And then that local 25% match again. And then if you have questions filling out this budget portion of it just let me know, and we can walk through it. So that is just more about the costs and then again online form so submitted at the bottom. And for these projects we also have a signature page as well. Again just for the library director, the project director if it's not the library director and the board president again saying, we all know about this project we're all in support of it. We're ready to go forward with it. Big programs like this a big project you definitely need to make sure you your director and board or on library board president are aware and on the same page with you all. So is there any questions about applying for either grant or either individual grants, or the larger staff training grants. Did anybody have any questions about the CE and continue education grants. What's another thing I was thinking about about these two is that's good for them. If you are a library staff member or board member, looking to earn continuing education credits, CE credits that you need to keep your certification, your library brand certification or your library board certification. So this is a way to earn those see credits you can earn CE for attending these things that you get a grant for. Yeah. So we can cover the cost for you to attend something like, like we're talking about the aerosol conference is starting today if someone's attending that multi day conference that's a lot of CE hours to earn. So this, you could have used this grant to attend and any conference and then submit it as a continuing education and then get all those hours. Okay, especially with the number of virtual conferences now. It'll cover virtual attendance, or some conferences. You might not be able to attend the live sessions but they have those recordings available so that you can go back and catch anyone's you miss that's additional CE hours you don't have to just submit. You know just the live session. Yeah, they are so happening right now has both a virtual and and in person options. So, some have both some yeah so look for things to do. All right, I don't see any other questions coming in about this one. That's cool. If you do come up later yeah type it in or you know reach out to Holly, no way to find her. So, back to our grants. The next two are the grants that I'm in charge of the internship grants and the library improvement grants, which are our federal funds. And I'll specify to these, these grants are a combination of state funds from the state of Nebraska, and federal, the CE internship and youth grants are all done using state funds and library improvements use federal funds. There are sometimes some different rules requirements between them depending on where the money is coming from so you'll see the LSTA one library improvement may look a little different than the others. So I'm going to jump into our internship grants webpage here it's on our now hiring at your library website so lots of information here about becoming librarian scholarships education, etc. With the library commission we offer an internship grant where we will give you either a $500 or $1,000 to pay an intern to come and work at your library for a particular period of time. The idea of this grant is try is ultimately to try and encourage people to become librarians people who are not yet. It is for high school or college students. So to show them what it's like being a librarian what they can do in a library the kind of things you do. You can do an internship with just generally here's a little bit of everything we do or it can be an internship specifically for a specific project like I just need an intern. This is very kind to help me run the summer reading program because that's huge every summer. And that's going to be I need an intern to get our website presence up and working and our social media presence and that's going to be their main project the whole time they're here. It could be anything that you want them to do. This is also a Nebraska public libraries are eligible to apply for it. We do partner and we do recommend link partnering with any other types of organizations public. So this one is just for Nebraska public libraries but you can partner with the school. A special library you can have the intern do like a field day field trip day to maybe if you're the public library to the local college libraries they can see a little bit about how that works. You can have it be a whole 5050 thing half the time they're at the public library half the time that the academic library trying to learn a little bit of that. So you can get very creative with how you wanted to your what you want your intern to do. As I said they have to be high school or college students and cannot have ever been employed as a as a library staff person. They're currently working at a library or previously can ever been employed, but if you've had a previous intern you can have them come back again we've had that before. I'll be able to really good intern last year and they wanted to use the same person again that's perfectly fine. We also allow volunteers, if you have a library volunteer who now wants to move up a little more maybe they're saying you know what this is something I'd really like to do, possibly as a career, or I'm more interested in being paid a little bit. If you're free if you're a person was previously volunteer they can then become an intern and get paid through the grant. We have some basic guidelines here like I said the grants are either $500 or $1,000. You can decide whether you know they'll depend on how many hours you might need someone to work. You can also have one person work and do the full intern or you can have two if you want you can have up to hire up to two people with our grants. I'd recommend of course going for the $1,000, then they each get paid 500 for that. There's some good information here about tricks tips and tricks and different things about doing internships that you can look into to get more idea about how it works to just run an internship. For paying your interns, you can do stipend based internship, or you can hire at the library as the intern as a library employee just like anyone else. Those two would be how the taxes and FICA and all of that is handled. If you hire them just a regular part-time employee, then your HR people, whoever hires people for the library would handle all that. All the taxes will be taken out automatically the way they normally are for any other employee. If you do it as a stipend where you just give them all of the money, the intern, then they would have to make sure that they handle paying the taxes on whatever they got paid if it's required. You do have to meet minimum wage requirements for this. And hopefully as everyone knows in Nebraska, there's a new minimum wage law gone into effect last year where the minimum wage is going to be increased. I don't know exactly when it ends, but it's going up every year. Right now starting January 1 of 2024. So that's, you know, this would be a grant for 2024. So as of January 1, the minimum wage will increase to $12 an hour. So you will, if you're going to do a stipend-based internship and pay them that way, you will need to pay $12 an hour. You can hire interns who are students who are younger. There are rules in the state of Nebraska for hiring anyone who are age 14 or 15. And when under the age of 16, there are laws about how many hours they can work, when they can work. You do have to complete a form that goes through the school. So the school handles this form, the form 110, about that they will be working. And there's a link here we have to the Department of Labor website where you can get that form if you're hiring someone who's that young. You are allowed to pay students a training wage if you want to of just 75% of Nebraska's minimum wage, which starting in January will be $9 an hour if you want to. But of course, if you pay the full minimum wage, it'll give you more, you know, possibly more interest in interns applying for this job. There are some rules here about what you do. After you are approved for the internship grant, I will send out a document that has links to lots of different, lots more information about running the internship forms that need to be submitted by you and by the intern. There's a starting off form before I start this internship survey by the intern would submit, and then at the end of the internship and end of the, you know, afterwards what did I learn form, and then as the whoever your supervisor of the intern is has to also submit a completion form or you know at the end of the internship about about the intern themselves, and then about the internship program in general. You can also send your document with all that information after if you've been approved for an internship grant. This is an online form, just like the CE one, and it is open here, and it is some basic information, basic information about your library, if there's going to be a different person than you who's the supervisor you put that in here. It's not how much money do you want to $500 or $1,000 dollars, are you going to hire one or two interns and then some basic plans about what you're going to do want to know a little bit, not just we want an extra staff person which everybody does. But what are your plans, what are you thinking of using them for specifically, you know you got to think ahead of what how can I actually use this person in the library will be the most beneficial for what we're doing. Next year in the library. A couple of schedule none none of this stuff has to be you know in stone of course you know schedule and timelines and whatnot of course will change. We've had many libraries who had to do that where, once they got the person and they realized oh they have a really good skill they're really good at this and we didn't know. So let's switch up what they're going to do. You know they're really good at working with the kids but we're going to have them work on the library website, maybe we'll switch them over to working with the children's programming instead, or the opposite. So this is just making sure that you've thought about it ahead of time. But if you need changed up you just let me know, and you can do that. And this application form that there is no there's no separate things you have to mail in separately to me for this one like there is for the CE that that works differently. You just you sign officially here on the application forms you've entered your library name, whoever is submitting this and their title, and then save and submit the application. And a copy of this will be sent to you to your email address whatever email address you've put at the top of the form here so you have a copy of it as well. You can also hear for our internships just this is a before my time. A list of the previous grant winners for internships have their own page. So you can see here which libraries over the years have received internship grants so if you're wondering how you might do an internship you've never done one before. I'm sure any of these libraries would be would welcome you reaching out to them and asking for some advice and, you know, suggestions, etc. Any questions about the internship grants. Any questions section of your go to webinar interface. You're wondering about getting one. Oh, wait, of course, something goes in as soon as a paper to pay training. Oh, good question. I don't know. I never okay is the question is this one typed in is there any additional paperwork if you decide to pay that training wage. There's nowhere that you have to like report that that's how much you've paid them. Obviously with whatever paperwork your HR people whoever does that would submit saying what you pay any staff that's where that would be reported as usual, but there's no special reporting that you have to do if you chose to do that. You just decide in house internally this is how much we're going to pay this particular person. That's a good question. Nobody's arrest that before. You have any other questions or anything about the anything else about the internship grant reach out to me about those back to our main grants page here. All right. So next up is our library improvement grants. This is where we give out our federal funding to libraries. I am in charge of this one as well. And you'll see here for this one and for the youth grants, you're going to have this little in between page. I guess I'd say before you get to the main page for this year's grants. This is because we have done previous grants right now, the last year's library improvement grants are still wrapping up libraries are still possibly working on their grants, and are still going to be submitting the completion report at the end of the grant period for that one so have this in between page so if you are do have a grant from this year. This would be where you would go to finish up and submit that completion report. You want to submit a new grant application for next year, then you click of course here the 2024 library improvement grants. So the program improvement grants is as I said it's our federal LSTA funding. So this we do have this money comes from the Institute of Museum and library services. Through the library services and technology act. So this is specifically for libraries to improve their programming and prove their facilities in certain ways to do you know provide better service to their users. So we do have a, if you want to read into the really deep details about it. There is a LSTA sub grant policies and procedures manual. This is a sub grant from that we give out to libraries so we receive here at the library commission, a grants grant states grants to states grant monies from I am the I'm LS, and then we use that to fund some of our programming here at the commission but also some of that money goes to this grant program so it's a sub grant that you all are receiving from us. If you want to know more about that you can look at the manual if you want to accredited public libraries and those institutional libraries I mentioned are eligible. We highly recommend if you want to, you can partner with other organizations if so if you want to work with the extension office, or someone that's not a public library with the public library in the school library want to do something together that I mentioned previously academic, but if you wanted to work with the 12 school and do something together. Totally can do that public library of course has to be the main applicant, and at least half of what's going on in the grass be done at the public library, but you can definitely have someone we partner with. This grant, the. This is this is rules come through LSTA for us that any purchases made after the time the grant opened are eligible for reimbursement already had someone asked about this about regard, regarding the youth grants and they're following the same rules that we're using here. So, from the date that the, if you're thinking of doing something you're in wanted needed to purchase something now, or you know there's deadlines or something's on sale, whatever you can definitely purchase it before you apply for the grant, and before you receive the grant, if you want to. However, there's no guarantee that you'll get the grant you apply for. So do keep that in mind if you do decide to purchase something ahead of time, like now, hoping that you'll get the grants there's no guarantee. You'll get it and we also do give out parcel grants for this. So you may apply for here's my full project is what I want to do. And we may decide to decide also for budget issues from our side. Well, we can give you a parcel grant will pay for 50% of it, and you'll have to cover the other 50 because we just don't have that much funding. So do keep that in mind if you decide to purchase things before you know if you have the grant, that's okay. But be aware you might not get the grant or you might not get the full grant. So if you request your grant funds by August 15 of next year. That's a deadline for that and you have to spend them by September 30 of next year. And then there is a final completion report that you will submit and that will be due November 1 of next year. That's all done online as well. So as you can see right now the 2023 grants are doing all of this getting lots of these reports coming in now. So there are some things they're not eligible for this. There's lots of things you can do my computers by equipment. Something for a program you want to do. This is, you know, thinking more about the physical things you might need in the library or special program or event you want to run and you need funding to run that program. So things that due to federal rules are ineligible food and beverages can't we can't find any of that sales tax public libraries in Nebraska are a tax exempt from sales tax you should not be paying sales tax anyways. So we would not cover any of that if that needs to go through construction. I'll get into construction I got notes down here. It's a, there's certain little things things things you can do. There's certain rules about that. You need to be if you do want to buy computers going on to the next item here in for your library that's okay, but you do have to be SIPA compliant. So that does mean I do have a little note down here, having filtering filters on your computers anything that any federal funding you receive from any source. If you receive federal funding you have to be SIPA compliant. Other grants, other federal grants, e-rate funding, all of that that's just a rule comes down from the federal government. This means having filters on your computers that block things minors from accessing illegal and bad things on the internet in general. There's a lot more information on the page about that I'm not going to go into a huge deep dive on this but it's just filtering. We do have something new here through the library commission, however, that I highly recommend you look into. We are now providing a filtering solution at no cost to you. It's free to the library DNS filtering that you can get through us. So if you do need to have a filter for either the purpose of this grant, other federal funding, e-rate purposes, you can get a whole website about this here. Sherm, Andrew Sherman is our new, we started earlier this year, library technology support specialist and he has come up with this new program where we can use DNS filter and we are paying for it for any public library in the state to have this filter. So I highly recommend if you don't know anything about filters or you're wondering we don't have one yet, how do we do it or you're not sure what your current one is doing at all. Reach out to Sherm about this and he will get you set up with a free filter that does meet federal requirements and e-rate requirements for meeting that SIPA compliance. So if you do want to purchase computers, that's okay, but you got to make sure you're SIPA compliant. In your application form, when you submit the application form for this grant, there is a link where you unbox, you check saying yes, we are SIPA compliant. So you'll tell us that in the application form. General entertainment programs that are not educational in nature you can't do most library programs are educational by default but giveaways are not eligible just you know something with a library name on it. No built in furniture this goes along with construction, anything you do purchase must be able to be moved not fixed to the wall. So carpeting built in bookcases that are permanently attached to the wall, doing a renovation of your library building and adding on an addition all that kind of thing anything that's permanent capital programs that is not allowable through LSTA roles. The next thing is for advocacy, social activities and PR in general of library services, but you can do programming specifically for something that you've used LSTA funds for so you can't just use this funding to, you know, buy some signs that say come to the library. But you can say come to the library's program that we use LSTA funds to to fund, and that kind of promotion is included any costs related to that kind of promotion. Now construction I want to explain that specifically here. And this is IMLS rules. Anything that is permanently fixed the building is called a capital improvement and is not allowable through this federal funding. If you have to hire outside contractors or anyone construction trade people to come in and do installation, it's not allowed. If the installation is, you can't also you can't split up the item that you're getting installed and the installation cost, and then only ask for this grant for the item. Because the thing is being actually physically attached to the building and you have to hire someone to come and install it permanently. That makes even the item you're installing, not eligible for this particular grant. So what IMLS does allow is what they call and this is their term construction light. If your library staff or municipality staff can install something with their own tools like a drill screwdriver hammer in something, and then they could also you know take it off easily by unscrewing or pulling out the nails. That's allowable so smaller type installations that you can do yourself. Yes. There is also a way to split up the project. However, if the installation can be considered its own project and the thing being installed does not depend on whatever that installation was. So, for example, if you're doing an outdoor patio area which a lot of libraries have for years to get more more activities and things going on programming outside, installing a patio area, not eligible for this, but then buying the tables and chairs and whatever else that would sit on the patio, that would be eligible. So you would have the split up as a product that is a way to split up the project, because the chairs to sit on there doesn't require that it be a something that was concrete that was poured you could have put the chairs just out on the lawn if you want to do. So they are freestanding they can be moved around and that's okay if you're going to be installing something permanently into the patio that would not be allowed. And then specifically about this is example here about installing that construction light versus you know full on in installation. If you're having a major security camera system and the cables have to be run electricians have to come in and run new wiring and do all of that. And that whole project those cameras are not eligible because of how it's being installed. But if you buy, like I have at my own house, some security cameras that you just screwed into the fence, and it goes works on Wi Fi. That would be allowable those wise cameras ring cameras those kind of security cameras. So that's the difference between the kind of construction that is, and is not eligible. If you have any questions you're not sure about your project, call me email me reach out to me and I can explain what you're doing, and I can talk to you through that and see if we can or cannot do it. There is a match required of this for this grant, and this is a little different than the CE ones. This is a 25% of the total project amount. So if your project is $1,000, then you're responsible for $20 $250 worth of that and we will pay, we will give you 750 for the other part. So it's 25% of the total project. So for our grants for this grant I say figure out how much you, you, you project costs, and then you'll know how much you're responsible for and how much we are, we would give you at least 10% has to be cash. You can use in kind costs if you want to in kind means like someone volunteers their time, or you're paying someone specifically to come in and do a program that can be part of your local match whatever you pay that person. So, part of it can be in kind it the whole 25% could be cash if you have it. And that cash money can come from anywhere donations your foundation your friends. However, another note to make here is that if you have anything that costs over $5,000 you must reach out and get approval, a pre approval from I am less for that you got to contact me and then I contact that. And that means one item is worth 5000 not the entire project. I know some libraries have bought 3D like big pieces of makerspace equipment, and then one piece of equipment. The printer like the glow forge 3D printers can be over 5000 possibly if you need to buy one of those and the individual piece of equipment costs more than 5000, then we have to let me know and then we reach out and ask. All together if things cost less than that that's okay the whole project can be however much it is, but if one particular one specific item is over 5000 we have to get approval so reach out to me first about that. You do have to, because this is my that comes from the instrument life services you do have to put this notice on anything that you put out about on your website promotions, mailings, whatever that it is ported by, I assume using library services under the provisions of the library services technology active Mr by us here at the commission. And then the last major thing here is there is you do need to have a unique identifier, unique entity identifying number this is because it is coming from funding come from the federal government. Some of you may already have one because you've been doing grants over the last few couple years and this is already your requirement. So if you don't if you're not sure you can go to Sam.gov that's the government website, where you can look up your number or get a number. All right, and then I'm going to go briefly here into the form itself. And this is the information that's asked on here is comes to us through I'm a less the kind of things they need to ask so you will see we need to ask you. But your basic library info what is the LCA purpose that your project is is about access to resources research sharing literacy, etc so pick whichever category I think it works, yours works best under. In summary tell us what you're going to do. What's the, what's the point of the project we want to do this is a free text field type as much as you need to into here. And then you need to choose the intent of the project depending on which category you chose above digging down more into what exactly you're going to be doing. What is the activity you're going to be doing what is the grant actually do. If you're just buying something buying equipment supplies hardware software whatever it's procurement. If you're getting into more content or programming then you get into whichever one of these other categories there are. Who is it going to benefit it can be just everyone you can target a group and you can specify which group it is if there is, if it does is if it is something specifically for one group of people. It's all optional depending on how you're doing it. How, which format are you going to be doing this is it going to be in for procurement you don't have any, there's no sub interest underneath that, but for the other areas you would decide is it in perspective retrospective acquisition, are you just, you know, we have some more, you know, dating down as I said into what exactly you're doing. What kind of activity what kind of program it is, and then what do you come when you want to get at this what's your what's your goal with this programming. How, you know, what will how will you figure out you know what's happening with this. And then you put in your budget here, and we round it to the nearest whole dollar for everything so we don't want to know about how many pennies something is around around your numbers. So here, if your, your mind computers, and you think it's going to cost $1,000. You would be requesting with 750, and your local funds is 250. And that comes up to the 700 to 1000. And then you just put in whichever category it falls under whatever you're ordering, whatever you're asking for. And then here, underneath the budget is where you would specify, you know, up here it's just general computer equipment okay. Down here you say okay we're going to buy in a Dell model blah blah blah with this much memory etc etc with a monitor and this keyboard details and details is where you put down there. Put your identifier number that you've come up with here. If you are buying something that will connect to the internet like computers, you would have to be super compliant. So if you're buying something, if you're requesting something that's not connecting anything to the internet, you do not have to be super compliant. So just enter whichever you are here. And then there's a whole long list of things or this used to be a whole separate page you'd make your read through and sign but we just add a application form, because this is federal funding certain things that you have to agree to civil rights and non discrimination interests copyright etc etc so you can read through all of these and make sure you agree you're not going to traffic in person and any do any human trafficking, I don't know what any libraries would do that in a program. But it's just one of the legal things you have to agree to. And then down here, just like the internship you just, this is where you agree and you'll legally sign the application here and submit it. And then the extra paperwork to submit to apply for the grant. Hey, any questions about library improvement grants, the federal library improvement grants. You type in the question section, let me know if you have any questions about what you can do what you can't do clarification about the anything on the form. See here. Good question. This is something we have kind of talked about but. The question is, is there a minimum minimum amount that can be requested on this grant. No, there's no minimum you have to reach for any of our grants will the only one that has specific amounts is the internship grant. Because either 500 or 1000 but there's no minimum you have to request and there's no maximum that you can request. We do have a budget of certain amount of money for each of these grants. So much is available. But for you what we want from you for this grant. And for the youth when that we're going to talk about next is just tell us what you want. And then we'll decide how much we can give you just tells what your project is how much you think it's going to cost. So there's no minimum you have to be asking for and there's no maximum you can ask for they have to stop. So that's what you think it's going to be. And in the budget here, and then we'll be able to decide on our side and then and give us a lot of detail. Also, if you're doing something large about how much each thing costs, and that will help us if we decide to do partial grants because we will give partial grants out for this we do that a lot. We want to help you but we don't have enough to cover the whole thing, but we can give you, you know, we're going to buy these five different pieces of makerspace equipment. We can cover two of them. And so we'll give you this much money for those two, and you'll have to find funding for the others. We have had very often in this has happened is once the state, state of Nebraska gives you a grant, other grant issuing organizations are more. That's good, you know you can say them hey look the state thinks this is a good project they came with some money but we still need more, and that gives you kind of points towards applying for their grants as well. So they just tell us what your project is tell us so much you want, and then we'll see what we can do for you so no minimums no maximums, but be aware we do have a budget. So with that mentioned the budget. I do want to say, and if this is still true that if you have a youth project that's going to, for example, have makerspaces that use can handle. You can request a library improvement grant, instead of a youth grant for excellence, depending on what they, where they think it fits better. True. Yep. Yes, you can do and you can apply for more than one of these grants you're not restricted to only doing one or the other. I don't know if we've had, we've probably had some libraries do all for any year, but we definitely had libraries do both the youth or library improvement. One thing is definitely a youth project you definitely want to go for the youth grant, but you may also do this when we actually had a library last year that did the items they wanted to do a program for they did the youth grant for but then the, they needed a special they had an extra cabinet furniture type thing free standing cabinet to store all the equipment the makerspace, the youth makerspace equipment, as they did that as a library improvement grant, because it was going to be used for that could be used for something else later too, but they split up between the two grants, and we gave them both couldn't really do one without the other so that's like to we talked to each other so if you do do something like that. And I'll let you know Sally and I do talk. So we can consult with each other and say do you have any grants from anyone that we also have let's work out that out together to see what we can do for these libraries. So, yeah, you can definitely do some something from here and something from the youth grant. All right, I don't see any other questions coming in. I'm going to get back to the library grants page and we are just getting close to the clock that's okay we always went a little long on this one talking about our grants, but we are up to the last one anyway so stick around with us we'll go as long as it takes to get through Sally's youth grants for excellence. And if anyone has any questions get them into the questions section right now we'll answer any questions you have about any of our grants before we wrap up for today. If you have to leave because you only a lot of the hour that's fine recording of course, and you can come back and watch later. Thank you. So, let's go into the youth grants for excellence now Sally I'll bring that up for you. As I mentioned, same thing as the library improvement grants libraries are wrapping up their 2023 ones we have a link for that, but you want to apply for 2024. You click on a big link at the top here. A few things I want to mention before we kind of goes a little bit down this list is that we have this last year and this year we've made an effort to make the grant applications more consistent, particularly between the library improvement grants and the youth grants for excellence. So, some of the things that you may notice have changed if you've written new grants before is, first off, the library improvement grants and these grants for excellence, we're both asking you to figure out what is this total project going to cost. If you're like Chris has said it was $1,000, then you know that you're going to ask probably ask for $750 grant amount and provide $250 local match amount. In the past I've had people say oh I want $1,000 from the library commission that means blah blah blah. Well, it doesn't work that doesn't work. It's going to cost you to do this project. And if you're lucky you might get the whole thing awarded to you or you might get a lesser amount. Another thing this year for the first time I used to have a minimum amount you could ask for because I thought being a responsible person we should make it something worthwhile to do all the paperwork for, but that's not really the point. The point is you have a project you want to do and if your project is going to cost $100 and you need some money from us, why should it matter that I had a $250 minimum grant amount before so that is gone. You can ask for what you need like Krista had said, so if it's $100 total project, you're going to get a $75 grant and a $25 match amount. And again I'll just reiterate what Krista had said. In the past I've always said you can't spend any money until you are awarded and contacted that you are receiving the grant. That is gone. So, right now as Krista said you can buy something today. But remember as she said that there's no guarantee you'll actually get a grant so you have to be sure you can handle it if you don't get a grant from us you might have another organization you're thinking of talking to about that. But I just kind of wanted to hit those things first. And now we'll look a little bit at the grant information here. Another thing too that libraries might have recognized that we changed this last year, although it kind of changed before that because there's CARES Act and ARPA and things got weird. There used to be different grant applications for youth depending on how much you're asking for. Yes. That's another thing that Sally decided to, that was just, let's just same thing, simplify it. Instead of deciding which grant do I apply for, there's just one grant application for youth grants no matter what you're applying for. There's not the lower less money and more money versions of the application form. There's just a single one. Thank you. That's a good point too. So looking down through this information here, there's some good information here. I'm not going to read through all of it, but as you can see, again, the eligible entities are accredited Nebraska public libraries. But if you are an unaccredited library, contact a neighbor library if you want to the library down the road who is accredited and see if there's a project you can work on together and share in the items that are purchased. At least half all need to go into the accredited public library, but that means you get the other half in your library and you both have a project happening, which would be great. Or also you could, as Chris had mentioned, work with an institutional library. You can see the list here, the state run institutional library. If there's a project that works for both of you in that way. We talked a bit about the deadlines and timetables and some guidelines here. One thing I try to emphasize every year and we'll get to it again when we hit the grant application form is under what is required for a youth grants for excellence application under project application guidelines. Details. If you have people write in and they say we want to buy 20 books for young adults. That's nice. If you know which, or if you have an idea of which books you're thinking of, please send a list. That helps my team, look at it. You are not required to buy only those books if you send me a list this isn't giving us an idea of what kinds of titles you're thinking of. If you don't know yet, then just say we want to buy 20 titles. We want to buy ones that will, you know, some graphic novel, some other kind or however you want to say it, just to give us a little bit more information as to what you're actually looking at. And for the youth grants, each grant project must have at least one program and event design for the project attended by youth and usually held in the library but sometimes they might be out in the on the lawn or read them at a school if that's going to work better. But in some lots of people, lots of times people have open houses to show the community here's what our project was here's what we've been doing. We want you all to know about this, but if you have a program for use, be they pre school or teams. You need to have, you can have as many as you want but you need to have at least one program event. Yes. It was great with the ARPA grants because people could just buy books for their library and that was terrific. But with these, this project, I won't be funding that if you want to do something about coding, and you want to buy so many coding books for your collection, that's fine. But I'm not going to approve an application saying we need to up our nonfiction collection, and we want to buy 40 nonfiction books. It needs to have more of a project approach to it, then improving your collection because every library in the state would apply for that if I allowed that. Okay, so then there's some, some information about projects that will be eligible. And these are not the only projects this is just trying kind of trying to give you some ideas of what you might consider. I think a real important thing here is the exemplary sample applications. Could you. Oh, you're fast. What is that? Take a look at these. Their exemplary because they put in one main thing is they put in more detail than a lot of people do. And I know you have a limited amount of time to fill out these forms. I understand that. But the more you can tell me about your ideas, the better it will. This is one of my favorite ones. I don't want to scare you off. But if you scroll down through this a little bit, Krista, you will come to where she writes down. Here is her monthly program format and she's got her, her things all laid out as to what she's going to do. This is the most detailed application I have ever received for children's routine programming. So it doesn't have to be at this level, but she really had it planned out and later she said, you know, one of the good things about this was I knew exactly what I was doing throughout the whole project project because it already was all laid out there. I didn't have to scramble around and say, what books did I need? What a life. It was all laid out. So planning, planning, planning and look at this timeline of when you're going to do it. No, you know, kind of taking this idea and breaking it up into bits to I think helps. It does help. And yes, she got funded. Okay, and then let's see, let me scroll down some more. We do on this other page, if you go back to the information page again, we do have ineligible costs. So now, oh, yes, the youth grants, most of the time we use state funding for them. So that's different from the federal funding. And this will make you happy because with state funding, you can, and also we're working with kids and teens, you can buy little trinkets and little things that they love to get. And, or a book, if they finish a certain part of this project, they can receive a book, you can buy those things with the grant funding. But furniture or food or beverages, you can't buy with this payment of salaries or wages for permanent library staff. You can use permanent library staff funding as an in kind match. So you say, okay, it took our children's librarian this much time to plan and hold these programs. So, and we paid her for that. So here's our match. You can, you can do that. The all workstations again are or similar stations are not eligible. And you can see these things here. So I also have the acknowledgement statement that you need to put into things. You know, if you're having an article in the newspaper or something, we appreciate you putting this in to explain to everybody where did the funding come from for this. And then down at the bottom of this page, again, is the application form and take a look. Whoops, I just, I just lost where I am. That's okay. I probably sort of made it more exactly like yours, but we kept this this form. The questions and the things that break down on the on the library improvement grant is because that's what LSTA. That's what IMLS is asking of us when we have to report back on that app that those grant funds. That's why it's so detailed and with those specific questions. Since this is just coming from state funds, we don't need to get that precise with it. So with the category of grant, I'm starting to think maybe I should get rid of that because it just confuses people. All I'm asking there is just a general statement of from, you know, encouraging reading or rewarding 1000 books before. Like the general like executive summary maybe a short description of what we're going to do. Yes. Pretty much that. Yes. So we maybe I just need to rephrase it to executive summary. That's a good idea. Then wait for it. Oh yes, a couple of goals. One goal is plenty. You can have two. Sometimes people put in like seven and thinking you're working too hard on the goals because that's, that's a lot. That's a lot to try to accomplish. And then this number three description of program or activities. Here's where the details can really come in helpful. And you can say we're going to have something for elementary age kids and we're going to do this and this and this and this. Tell us what you, this again, I forgot to mention, this is a plan. This is your plan. It's going to change by the time you're actually doing this project. Three of those things will drop out and two others to new ones will come in. That's okay because plans are made to be changed and things change while you're not looking costs and availability of people and everything changes so we know that just send me an email saying well I can't do the, the sewing project anymore and I'd like to do a sequence. Okay, I don't know how you're going to do that but anyway, I should have practiced some things to be examples, then the timeline, you know. So, you're starting with this you're going to get some gather some things together get some advertising going, have these programs on these days, that's what you're planning now, days might change, we all know that. And then identify youth need on which this project is based that can that can be hard for people to because it can be as anything as much as three different parents come in and say, can't you do something to help our kids develop their, their hand coordination we've been working with them at home but are there any projects you could do at the library so they cut things out with safety scissors and and glue things together and you know if you have community requested this so I'm trying to offer it. And then just a little bit about what staff is going to be working with this means of evaluation. I spend a lot of time describing what kinds of evaluation you might include, but that's to help you get thinking about you know, I've been all focused on how to do this but I haven't really thought about. What is it I'm aiming for and how will I know if I got there. And that's where this question comes in. And then, then the budget. And again, we you have items library materials will be anything from construction paper and markers that they're going to be using up might be adding that could be program materials actually and supplies, people put things in all kinds of places. And then you're going to need to find out what they are library materials might be I'm buying 10 books about coding because that's my project. And then that so all together you'll end up with your estimated total project budget that's the total project cost you think you're going to have. And then you put in the 75% for what you're going to request from the library commission, and then you're going to put down what is your cash match. $100 because the French group is giving you $100 for this project, and then the rest might be some kind of in kind. Either the children's librarian person's time or something else, so that you come up with the total match amount, and everything works together, and it won't let you put in bad numbers. We'll check your math. And like you said here, you know, if you're not sure what something category it goes into, you know, put whatever up here but then down here. Yeah, explain. Okay, this is what I really meant. And here we have the explanations definitions of anything added libraries collection personnel costs materials in here different program materials things will be like the construction paper and what stuff that stuff that gets used up. So you can see down here the definitions of which what each category is. So it might be a good idea to look down here first and see oh that means this so now I'll go up here and change amounts to go in the right categories. And give me as much detail as you can like you're not I know you're not buying computers because I said you couldn't. But if you're buying the button maker, the brand 945 Z button maker tell me that it's this button maker supposed to come with this and this and it's supposed to be this much money. Yep, we want details about what you're going to use the money for to you for this and library improvement grant in this area and the one area right underneath the budget and that one model numbers amounts what you've looked up now we know from when you submit these to when you buy something prices will change. Some we've had things where somebody said I want to buy this piece of equipment. And then you know for months from now that piece of equipment no longer exists so I need to buy something else. That's okay. Tell us at first what you're going to do and things can always be changed later but the most detail of what you've you've looked up is what we're going to want. So that's why I'm looking for specific information as to what did you mean by 10 books about coding. And you don't have to type it the titles in this form. If you don't want to if you have a list, if you pulled some things from Amazon and you have a printout list, you can just either email scan copy of that to me, or mail it in US mail, because I will attach it to the whole form. And my team that looks at the grant applications will appreciate having that information. And we also know that one of those books is not going to be available anymore too. But this gives an idea of what you have in mind. And again, so I'll put in your, your name and, and who you are, and submit the application and you should get a copy of this to in your email. Occasionally things go, go sideways and, and you don't and if you don't I can send you a copy of what I received so just ask me if you don't get when they're going what happened. Just email me and say, I don't seem to have a copy would you send me what I submitted. Sure I will. Are there any questions or concerns about what I've said. All right, yeah, does anybody have I do have as you see a question that did come in, but just remind me would you have any other questions about the youth grants or about the application form or anything. Get into the questions section. We do a question here that I can answer right from here someone wants to know is there a place to find and we talked about this project ideas that were funded by this grant in the past. Yes. These are some ideas of what libraries have done but then there are also these sample applications that you can look at and read the full applications. So there's those. There's just these ideas, but also what I'm going to show now since we keep talking about we haven't actually looked at it yet. We have this grant recipients database actually go right back to here, and you'll see it linked on each of our pages but it's also here as well. So this is a database that has every grant that we have ordered. As you can see here these are the grants are included going back quite a few years of the youth grants used to be called children's grants going back to 1998. LSTA grants going back to 98 so all of these are in the state to this one giant database of every single thing we've ever given out. So if you want to you can look up a particular grant, for example, youth. You can look up a year if you want to, or you can just say give me all the youth grants for excellence. And then you'll see. And now this is not going to give the full application but either a description or the title they gave to the grant depending on what information we put into your but some basic information, and you can see how much they have received and when it was. Here you go junior stem program so you can go in here and get ideas for what you might want to do looking through all these grant applications if you want to. You can also see if you were wondering if your library you might be new to library have we got a grant before. You can look up, and I'm just going to choose aims with the top I don't know what's going to come up. Oh, good. They have forgotten some things, and you can see what a particular community has received. So if you're wondering if your library has done something before you can look up here and see what has been. So this could give you some ideas of what to apply for as well for any of the, any of the grants. And we have all of our grants here our internship grants are here as well even though there's that separate page that I have it's also in this database as well. And we'll, you know, we'll point out here some grants did change the names of them over the years so library improvement grant and LSTA grants, you're going to have to look them up separately because we've changed the name of it after 2007. The youth grants were changed after 2003 so you will have to look for both categories. If you want to see everything. And please email or call and ask questions if like tomorrow you're going, well I wonder about this or that would that be eligible. Give me a call, give Chris caller send an email and just ask because we're happy to answer questions and, and let you know if what you're considering is is eligible. As I said with the, the youth grants are generally state funding and so the things that that the federal government won't let you do not construction, not furniture, but the, the, the fun things you know like a teacher, people that wanted to buy 10 t shirts for the kids who made a certain level of, of a teen program. Well teens love t shirts. So, I love those buttons right. All right, so that is our four grants that we're offering this year. That's anybody have any other questions. You want to ask about any of the grants as of me Holly or Sally about the seeing and training internship library improvement or youth type into your questions section will answer all your questions right now if you have any you want to ask right now. So here, as I just said you can reach out to any of us about each of the grants, seeing and training would be Holly internship and library improvement would be me, and youth would be Sally of course. So you can reach out to us anytime with any questions. The deadline to apply for all these grants is November 17, so it's just opened up yet last week as I said so you have a couple of months now to figure out what you want to do and submit applications, reach out to us with questions if you're not sure if you have any questions or what category should go under. Just contact us. I've already answered some questions from people in the email, and we will let you know. Something else I meant to mention is, if you submit an application this week. Great. It will go in the list if you submit the application and then in a month ago. Wait a minute, I forgot about this and this and this submit another one. So who is I call you and say you know you have these two different, and you say well yeah, skip the first one and go with the second one. We can do that. Yes, yes, we can do that. I don't, I don't assume that the second one supersedes the first one because sometimes people will apply I'm going to apply for a youth grant for kindergarten nurse. And then they go wait I haven't done anything with teens and then a month later they submit something else for teens well I'm going to ask you, did you, and yes you can submit more than one application for you. You can say yes you can, because I already said you can you can apply for all of these grants you want to but you can submit multiple grants in each school, except for the internship one. For each one of these you can apply for multiple things, if you want to. And that may be a good idea as well, rather than doing like one grant application for everything you want to do if it's to like like to like improvement grants to separate the projects that you're thinking of separate out in two different grant applications and then we also have the ability then because of our limited so limited, you know, no funding we have, we could say well give you one but not the other, rather than trying to figure out from this giant branch grant application well which things had to do with what, you know, think about it like like 16 and children's that's an obvious separation. And you want, but then you want new computers. That could be two different library improvement grants. So think about that and that's okay you can apply for you can submit multiple ones, and we'll evaluate them together and decide what we can do for you. All right, I don't see any other questions come in something else I do want to mention because we talked about things that we can and cannot fund through these grants. When you look here in our grants pull out fly out menu here, there's also something here they're under other funding sources, and there is this grant opportunities for Nebraska libraries page this is a page I maintain with other grants and funding resource opportunities that you could possibly apply for. So if it is something that we can't cover because of our rules that you have, there might be other grants here that could cover them especially construction related things construction capital projects. There are a lot of things that we can do. There are lots of programs in here that you could apply for instead. We have links first up here to our grants, and then a regional library systems all of scholarship grants that's for attending things, but then there's something new coming up with a new grant program and new deadline coming up I have them listed up here right now here's a couple that are open right now. And then I have just a long list of all sorts of things you can apply for library association the best library association is a couple of scholarship and professional development grants. But there are lots of other organizations that you can apply for and these are kind of things I was talking about where it will you know if we can give you a partial grant then maybe you can go to one of these like your community foundation the Arts Council or somewhere and say hey the state or gave us money can you help fund the rest of it. And here I've highlighted what deadlines are for some of these many of these just have ongoing applications, some they've already passed for this year, but they're annual so they'll be one for next year if you had gotten this years yet. But things like this community development block grants. This is for construction or rehabilitation facilities, this is something you could have applied for for actual construction and renovations and installation of things onto your building. And libraries are listed actually under public works, this is from the Department of Economic Development here in Nebraska. There's also Civic and Community Center financing fund same kind of thing to construct or improve facilities and libraries are mentioned. USDA community facilities grants and loans that something specifically for doing this kind of construction things. And that's just all sorts of other great things here. So those doing ongoing grants. This one new one I learned about from another library in Nebraska for imprint you see commercials for for imprint that's all the, you know, personalized things that you can you have your libraries logo on. They give out grants every single day to nonprofits and libraries have received them. So, if you want to, like, I want a bunch of bags, you know, to give out to give all the equipment to all the stuff for buying for the kids. You know, for imprint grant you might be able to get them to supply that for you. And lots of other local foundations, the railroads, etc, etc. So look through here and see if there's something else that you could apply for my also links done here for just for even more. There's so much out there there's so many grants these are ones that I've highlighted as I heard it see of nuance I think might be good for you I add to this page, but there's even more beyond this. So one of those, the specific grants page for schools k 12 schools. I highly recommend signing up for this grant station weekly newsletter it's a free newsletter of new things coming out. They do have something where you can pay them to get more resources and activities or resources and things you can get but you don't have to. They will send out this free newsletter with links to grants I get a lot of my ideas from there as well. You can't supply something to you can't grant, give you the money for something or if we don't get can't give you a full grant. We will refer you to this, and you can go there and find even more opportunities. All right, I think that will wrap it up for today I don't see any other questions that came in while I was babbling away there. Any last words Holly or Sally, or we good to go. I think I think I covered everything but give me 10 minutes later after we sign off and I'll remember something. All right, I think I will wrap it up for today show. Thank you everybody for being here. Apply for grants. We have money, we need to give it away. There we go. So that will wrap it up for today show. The show has been recorded as they all are and will be in our archives. These are upcoming shows for the rest of this year. You'll see there's some open dates still I'm working on getting descriptions for other ones that can be filling in there but here's some that we've gotten on our schedule, but our archives are right here. So everyone is at the top of the page here so today's will be posted there by the end of the day tomorrow. Everyone who attended today's session and registered will get an email from me letting you know that it's there. We also pushed out onto our Facebook page is there and compass live Facebook page if you like use Facebook, give us a like over there. We also posted to Twitter and Instagram using our end comp live hashtag in on to our mailing list. Rascal Library Commission mailing lists to. 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People may work at a totally different library than when they presented for us 10 years ago, but every session has a original broadcast date on it so you know when it actually happened. And that will wrap it up for today's show. Next week is the last Wednesday of the month of which usually as you can see from other sessions here and if you look at our archives is our pretty sweet tech day where I mean a sweet or technology innovation library and comes on, but she's on vacation next week so we're taking a break. So there's no show next week, we're off taking a break. So she's off on vacation and but we will be back on October 4 to talk about Apple in Kansas training for new library directors. This is a Robin Hastings is at the Northeast Kansas library system they have a program for an intensive training program for new library directors, and she's going to talk about what they're doing there down in Kansas. So please do sign up and join us for that. Also for those of you looking and wondering about Sally's presentations there on the schedule now as of yesterday her usual annual presentations. These are things that she's usually done at our Nebraska Library Association conference and read as them here. There is no conference this year a skipping year, but best new children's books of 2023 best new teen reads of oops that's got to say 2023 I will fix that sorry. So summer reading program for 2024. Yeah, starting to think about next year adventure begins at your library. Those three sessions have been booked so if you are having schedules if you're looking for those. Register for those and any of our other ones coming up and the new ones I'll be filling in. So that wraps it up for today. Thank you everybody thanks Holly thanks Sally. Thank you. We got a lot talked about, but I think it'll be very helpful. Bye for grants. There we go. Bye for our grants. Alright, thank you everybody and we'll see you on a future episode of encompass live. Thank you. Bye bye.