 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Entompus Live. I'm your host Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Entompus 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 Wednesdays that's fine. You can always watch our recordings at your convenience when you record the show every week and I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of those recordings. Both our live show and our recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think may be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. The most of you here today are from Nebraska, I assume considering what the topic is. Okay, but just for anyone coming in from the outside, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries and that is for all types of libraries in the state, so you will find things on our show for our public, academics, K-12, corrections, special, museums, archives, etc, etc, etc. Anything, our real criteria only is just something to do with libraries. I think libraries are doing, I think they could be doing, it's all across the board, so you can find something there for you. Before we get into today's topic, I want to briefly pop over to our Library Commission homepage here. We, and remind our libraries, anyone out there, we are still right in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and on our Library Commission website, we do have some resources that we have up there for available for libraries and people in Nebraska. There's a link here right at the top that is our list of libraries, closings, re-openings, etc, that we try to keep up with as well as we can. We do have a web form library and libraries can fill out to let us know are they open, are they closed, are they partially, are they doing curbside, have they re-closed? Many libraries and or businesses are re-closing now because they opened up too soon, flare up of the virus and they have to shut down again, so we do try to keep track of that for Nebraska libraries. If you're, are you, so check on your library on here, make sure the info is correct. If it's not, shoot us an email and we can update it. We also post here COVID-19 and pandemic resources. This is pinned to the top of our website, so it'll always be there at the top of everything else that comes in our blog. And this we have links to the form to submit to us, link, there's a mass of what libraries are doing, we'll put it together too. But we hear we also have a page with some, some information depending on other things you might want to know about my business, my kids, financial help, unemployment, et cetera, et cetera. We, but then there is a, so there's a lot of things there that could be useful to you when you're helping your patrons. But we do have one about what about my library? And this is specifically information for libraries as they're opening, talking about reopening, closing, whatever. So webinars, information from the CDC, World Health Organization, ALA, OCLC, IMLS, pick your acronym. Anything that comes up that we hear about we add here. So we're always adding things on to here. So keep that as page for any resources and information might be helpful to you. Someone's information is from outside, you know, is good for anyone. So it is specific to Nebraska. For example, the information here about holding meetings, that's Nebraska specific. If you're not in Nebraska, you're welcome to look at these resources and use them, but double check with your state library or your state library association, they may be providing the same kind of information for you with local information. No, I just like to highlight that whenever we start to show your windows, we're still pushing out that information for you during this pandemic. Now you should go back there and go to the, what a copyright one. Since I'm here. Oh, on the library one? I think yeah, down at the bottom, the last one, what about copyright, the books online? That's, and we have what we know about those publishers that aren't covered. But if you look in the middle section, online story times, etc. Right here, there's and some of the publishers have extended the availability to do it. Yes, trying to find the one about the school library journal had a list of extended till the end of December. So again, this doesn't cover everybody, but it sure lets you know who has made a statement and what they want you to do. They might want you to send them some information just so they know who's doing what. They don't want you to pay anything. And they if you put it online, according to their permissions, they want you to take it down by a particular time. So that's true too. We need to pay attention to that. Thanks for letting me jump in. Yeah, no, no problem. No, this is work. This is one of the big things that a lot of libraries are concerned about. So they've done forever. How do we do it now? Is it legal? And because of the situation we're in right now with being in the pandemic, most I would say I'm going to be optimistic publishers have said yes, of course, use it, but with these limitations. Sometimes it's take it down. Sometimes it's don't record it, though, just live. So double check and see what the situation is depending on what you might want to do or what you want to use. Yes, which book, which publisher? Yeah. All right. All right. So I will mention before we get started to show if you do have any questions, comments, thoughts, you can use your go to webinar interface. There's a question section there you can open up and type into or if you type into there you want to use you can also use your own microphone if you want to ask a question, just type into there I have a mic. He's amused me and we can do that and you can ask your question that way. I'm going to ask you Holly, your Holly. I am. You or Holly, both of you guys, can you open up that question, watch for questions, because the screen is way far away from me. I can't really read it very well. Interestingly, I don't have questions on there right now. Oh, wait, I can fix this. Oh, I know why. Yeah, I got it. Give me just a second here. And hopefully nobody can hear that grinding. We hope not. I think they certainly would have heard it if we were in our offices. Yes. Oh, now I have questions. There we go. All right. Holly and Sally have given you both the ability you should now be able to open up that questions box and monitor for us. I do not. I can, the way we're dreary, you things here today I really can't read this for you very well when those come in. Yes, we have a differently position. So but if you guys keep mine up and make them good, we'll do it. All right. So today, now we'll get into actual today's show. We're going to be talking about grants, LLC grants for 2021. And I'm going to start just over here on our website. Here at the library commission, we provide you with information about lots of grants that are available out there. But we also offer some of our own. And today, what we're going to talk about mostly is the new grants we're offering for 2021. So these are all grants to be applying for now. And then you'll receive the funding for projects or events or whatever you're doing in next year in 2021. We have over here on our website here, we have a fly on menu here with things that go to the section about grants, funding and E rate. And over here is the NLC related grants. This is what we're going to be talking about. There's a main page here about the grants. And then there's lots of different grants listed here. Some of these are things that we offer. And then this list, but some of the things that we are doing for you, it's not coming to the death most of time today, for example, the cares act grants, we did do those, they closed the libraries receiving their funding now, but it's related to what we do here. What are we talking about here are the ones on this main page here about NLC grants. There are four different grants that we sometimes I'll say, give out here via through the Nebraska library commission. Right now, we know three of the four are definitely being offered for 2021. This is funding that we have state funds, state, state legislature that we get money to do various things in the commission. And we have funding for three of the grants. One grant we are unsure about yet because it comes with federal funding is used to do that grant. And we do not know yet what the federal budget is going to be. That's still an unknown. So you'll see on here, the four grants that are listed. And the ones that do have dates of when they are open, you'll see this 2020 dates, 2020 dates. And this right here, library improvement grants, that's the one that we don't know yet. That's why it still has the previous year's dates when it was for 2020. If you go to that grants page, I'll just show you quickly, you'll see is a big red block, block just out there. I think Baybar that says the grants for 2020 are done. And we're not sure what will be happening in 2021. Keep an eye on this. So yeah, keep your eye open for what will happen with library improvement grants. These are grants generally for doing things like services, sometimes construction, not phone construction, but like updating your AV in a room you have getting a webcam, getting a 3D printer, things that are just general things for your library that they might want to do to have services, products, you can go through the information there if you want to and see what it was about last year. But like I said, until we know what our budget will be from federal LSGA funding, we don't know yet if they will be available or how much. So keep an eye on that. The other three grants, however, yes, we are good to go with those. And I think what we'll do is we'll do them in the order that they are going to be due. Oh, because we will talk with you see, we do have, yeah, that would mean we would start with Sally. Yeah, the youth grants that's coming right up. Yeah. And I didn't introduce so we have the four different grants here. And is the reason the three of us are here, I'm the library development director, and I handle the internship grants. And the other two are handed out Sally and Holly, I'll let you guys introduce yourself and then talk about your various grants. So you should I can hand over control to you? Sure. All right, ready. I'm going to get Sally screen of the presenter. Yes. You should see my screen. About that. There it is. Perfect. Yeah, right. So I'm going to keep an eye on the time. The youth grants, as she said, they're there. Introduce yourself or Sue. Oh, yes. Sorry. I'm Sally Steider. I'm the youth services coordinator. That's the short title. My official title is longer. That's, but I work with librarians who work with kids from birth to past little past age 18. And that can be a library director, because sometimes library directors are the librarian for everybody. And that's great. And sometimes they have a children's or teen librarian in her library. So they're lucky. Yes. Yes, it's their lucky. That's a good thing. So I'm just going to go through on the webpage, a little bit about writing up an application for a grant and what we're hoping you're going to be doing and what you might have questions about. And we'll get going on there. Okay, get a move on. We can either look at it through the for the youth grants, you can stop at children YA and scoop scooch over here. And right at the bottom there, because it starts with a Y, it's always at the bottom of that grant. Yeah. Or it was also on the list that Krista talked about. This is good. There's various ways to get to things. We also do have you'll notice in the upper right, there's a search. Yes, just for our entire end of the library kitchen website, type grants in there or youth grants or internship grants, whatever kind you're looking for. And you should be able to come up with links to that place, the right pages as well. So when you click on that to come to what I call the introduction page tells you a little bit about what are these? Who's eligible? When are they do? Things like that. And as you look along here, you'll see that, right, like the second paragraph says, if you have some questions, go check our FAQ, because it, so the introduction sends you to the FAQ a few times. So instead of having lots of texts in lots of places, we have the text here, and then you just get sent here if you have a question about matching funds, which is a question I get every year. And I understand why some of our grants do require match some do not. So you're going to have definitely pay attention to each grant and what information what the requirements are for each one of them. So now I want to go back to the introduction page. And there's good information here, because I wrote it, I know it's good. But um, let's see, I have to, I have to get over here. Yeah, I can get that. Yeah, that's just pretty. So who's eligible accredited public libraries in Nebraska are eligible? Now along with that is I'm going to pop back to the FAQ, because I didn't realize it was this close. Down here is a little bit more information. Who is eligible? So it says, oh, gosh, this is exciting stuff. accredited public, I have to get this out of my way now. Keepsake. Accredits. And then the second pair of chat in this paragraph, the second sentence says schools, unaccredited public libraries, and some other organizations may be involved through collaborative planning and programming with an eligible public library. Right. So if you're an accredited public library, and the next time over has an unaccredited library, and you guys want to work together on a project, that's great. And we encourage that. And one of the things will go through the grant form in a minute. But one of the things I my rule, and I don't know if it's just me, or if we all would say this, if you're buying, if you're partnering with an unaccredited library, for example, and you're going to be buying some items, at least 51% of the tangible items need to reside in the accredited public library, which means 49% can reside in the unaccredited library. So if you're buying, if you're doing a project and you want to buy some books for the kids to refer to that has to do with that project, you need to put them that way. My example is going to be, because this is what I did last year, so I have my numbers right here, that you maybe want to buy a couple of gaming systems. And in that case, if you're sharing with another library, one of the systems could reside, officially reside in each library, plus the particular games, figuring out the 51%. But on occasion, if the unaccredited library is having a gaming party, because someday we hope that'll happen again, they can have both of them there for that gaming party and all the games you bought, so then that can work well. And then when their event is over, it would go back to the original library. So So like during a project, potentially, or something like that, it's okay for things, if that's the kind of equipment or things you're buying, everything can be a one library for a time, but officially and legally, the accredited library owns right more of the stuff, we'll call it, than the unaccredited, just because they are the primary applicant to the grants and all of our grants do are anything yeah. Yes, all of these grants have the same rules of being accredited public libraries and the state run institutions, institutional libraries are eligible for the grants that we have. And I know one of the page camera features has a link to the list of those state run institutions, the U3 have centers, things like that. The corrections are the ones that are the ones that are eligible for all these grants that we're talking about today. But all of them we do encourage collaboration, yet do a group project with some other organization, if your historical society wants to do some sort of thing with the library, that'd be great, have them come on as another, you know, I've done that with the nine heart center up in, bankrupt, the library applied, and they did a lot of events and things with the center, and they were together, they were co applicants of the grant, and is great. Yeah, so think creatively, if you do have things like that organization you could work with to do some sort of project program or something for all of these grants. And if you do that, you'll need to have a letter, a lot, I mean, they'll be part of the extra materials who send in, but a letter from that organization or that other library saying, yes, we want to be involved in this project, and we're looking forward to partnering with whoever. So that we know, yes, you've checked with these, this group or this library, and you're planning together for something, because it's happening. Yeah. We don't want to surprise them, surprise, we have to do this, I don't want to. Oh, sorry. Who would say no, I can't. Okay, I gotta move on. So back to the original introduction, I'm going to zoom down to the bottom of the page. Again, there's lots of information here. If you have questions though, you are welcome to call me. I don't want to point out right here, our exemplary sample applications. These are applications from past years who received a youth grant and are considered exemplary because of how much information they included, yay, that makes a big difference. So you can take a look at those just to see what you might want to emulate in your own application. Down here we have the online forms. There's a short form. If you're asking for $1,000 grant from us or less, use the short form. If you're asking for more than a thousand, and I don't think anyone's ever going to ask for $1,001 because then you have to do the long form. And what's, why that extra dollar? But if you're asking for a $1,500 grant for example, then you'll need to do the long form. It just has a little bit more information in it that we want for you. So we're going to go to the short form. And this is what it looks like. Of course I have the information at the beginning because I want you to know stuff. So you fill this out who you are. If you're the library director or the children's librarian or a board member, a board member can fill this out if they want to. And we have a place for a project title. It doesn't have to be snazzy. If you want it to be snazzy, go home. And then this is kind of, this trips some people up. We used to have more categories and really we don't. But I'm just kind of asking you here, are you having a celebration of reading? Are you doing a teen project for teens to learn how to code? So if it's a little more specific, you can put that in there. But that's just, again, just some general information. Down below that are, do you have any goals? Hope you have one. You don't need to have 12. You can have one. And that's great. So what's your goal? Is it for the kids to learn to code? Okay. Is it for kids to have a good time at the library and have good feelings about the library? So they'll want to come back. That's not phrased in goal-oriented phrasing, but if that's what you have in mind, you can write it that way. And just so you know, these boxes will expand if you need them to. And we do recommend, strongly, that you look through here, figure out what you need to tell us, and then write it in a different program. Write it in a word processing program in Word, if you have it, or even a notepad. Because once you get in here and you type things in, if you have to turn it off for some reason or leave because someone wants to use it for something else, everything is lost. It does not save it and you can't come back where you left off. It's something maybe that'll change, we hope, but in the meantime. So write it in another place and then you'll just copy and paste it in. That would count for all the grants. Yep, they're all the same way on the different websites. They look very similar. So number three, description of program or activities. Here's where the meat of your project goes. And if you tell me, I'm going to do three programs this summer and that's all you say. You're not up there very high on my list. I like you. I think libraries are great, but you got to tell me more than that. And you're not tied to it. I think that's one thing that makes people hesitant. Yes. If you go in there and say one program is going to be coding, one program is going to be making buttons with our new button maker that we're going to buy, and one's going to be a Mario Kart tournament. And then you get funded and then you find out that something went wrong and you have to change things. Just email me and say, well, instead of the coding program or coding person couldn't make it, we're going to do something else for that same age group and highly likely I'll say, okay, go for it. Yeah, all of these grants are most of them, depending on what you're doing, are not set in stone. You can always reach out to any of us and say, yes, something changed. Obviously we all know this year grants were awarded and then the pandemic flared up and everything is different and that's okay. We did continue education grants were to attend this year the Association for Real and Small Libraries Conference that was going to be in Wichita, Kansas. Easy drive right down the road. That's not longer happening that way. It's kind of virtual, so we choose switch gears. Everyone who applied for that can just do it virtually and get their grant that way. So things can change, they'll change sometimes coming from us saying, because the event's changed, we're allowing you to do something different with your grant, but can also come and from you guys as well saying, hey, something changed on our end and we have to change this, what we want to do and that's okay. Just let us know, keep us in the loop, keep us, I think there's even wording somewhere on some of the agreements that states any changes, you must keep in you know report and let us know, but just yeah, just sell it for youth ones, meet for the internship, holly for the CE ones, just let us know what's happening. So also in here, the youth grants have a requirement that you have to have some kind of a program connected with the grant, which in the past has usually meant, well we got this new stuff, we're going to have an open house and everybody gets to play with all the new stuff we got, well you're not going to be doing that in the near future, I'm pretty sure. Please don't, please don't, but there are other ways to have the program. So I just jotted down a couple of things, virtual, it's okay, say you want to get a speaker to present to the kids about space and whatever, because that's your project, that virtual program is a program. I had a person call me the other day and said what they wanted to do, they're writing an application and I don't find my note yet, so I can't remember who it is, but they wanted to, what they were going to do was send a packet home with the kids, they were going to make something at home and then the kids are going to bring it back to the library where the librarian would take a picture of it and then the kid got to keep their thing and the pictures will go up on the webpage, that is a program. Yes, that counts. And a lot of these things, I think this past year libraries have switched years into figuring out ways to do these, I see a lot of take and make craft programs, they put together bags of come to library pick it up, do it at home, or they put up a video of here is the craft that you can do in here, I'm going to demo doing it, but people just do it at home. That's a program. Yeah, all those things that you switched years into this past year, you can still keep doing that next year and do it if I grant for them. Another option that I'm allowing this year and you'll probably think I'm crazy, but you can also say you're going to hold an in-person program when the pandemic has passed enough that everybody feels safe for that. And that doesn't necessarily mean by the end of summer next year, that might be in the further along in the future, we don't know. But that if you put that in your plan and then you say you're going to do it and I believe that you will eventually do it, then we're okay. And the thing about what's going on now with COVID-19 is, and I know this because I've been in meetings with librarians across the state, it's flaring up in different places, so in one community and maybe we're having hard living, we've done really well, things are very much safer here, we can have more people come in the library. But another community down the road, sorry, things are flaring up because of some event or something, so we can't. And that's fine, it's going to change to today, it's going to change over time, depending on where you are. There's no hard and fast rules that all your programs have to be virtual or outside, that's another thing a lot of people do. Now that we're going to get into fall, okay, but winter, probably not a lot of outside programs unless you're really into snow. But a lot of you just moved everything outside, storytime outside, whatever, so there's more space for the entity and that's great. But it's going to vary from town to town and from time to time and that's okay, whatever is safe in your community that you're doing, that's okay. And I think across the board for all of these grants I'm going to say, and it's not up there listed, but it's something everyone needs to be aware of, make sure when you're applying for these grants that you are taking that into the virus, the pandemic, into consideration with your projects and in your grant applications. Some are in there address the fact that, yes, I know we usually do a summer reading every year and it's always this, don't just submit the same application you did last year because if you don't address and take into consideration the fact that it could be dangerous to do that same program, that's going to, there's going to be a discussion with this Allie, with me about the internship grants. Don't just submit this thing and we have a lot of libraries that do interns every year and that's great and we'd love to submit to provide this salary for them. But you can't just submit the same old application that you did last year and the year before to me and not address the fact that actually this person might not be able to do the same thing we've always had an internship do. You're going to have to switch gears and come up with different things for them to do or a different way for them to do it, but make sure you address that in your application that I know that you know things are going to have to be different and that's okay. And if you didn't, I know some applications are going to come in, that's okay. I'll be reaching out to you and asking questions, we'll have a discussion. There is no, we've read your application and it's a no. There is, we're going to read all these applications and we may be calling you and contacting with questions and one more explanation. We give you a chance to add on to it, just send an addendum or just you clarify what you're doing in an email to us. It's all back and forth. Yeah. Thank you. So number four is just tell me the nature of planning on beginning your project and when you think it will be done, if you have an end date some things are ongoing. We are always going to have coding class. That's great. Say so. The targeted number of youth will be impacted by this project. This is the number of children or teams that you think will be coming in the library and for picking up the packets and being involved. This is an estimate. If you're hoping for 25 kids to be involved, put in 25, there might be more, there might be less. There's no big, this isn't the little question that's going to catch you and get a no. We don't have any questions that are going to catch you and get a no. Well, I'm just going to joke about one, but never mind. Okay. So impact is just, on this one we just say impact on the longer when we say the word evaluation. And this is what we mean. What are you hoping to get from having this project? And here's the one I was going to joke about. Number seven, if awarded a grant I would be willing to ask to make a presentation about it and how it went. And I've had people mark, no, they still got a grant. That's okay. This would generally be come here and encompass live and talk about your project or depending on how our state library conferences go or our spring meetings or things like that, presenting at one of those potentially. We might ask you to stand up at lunch and say, give a three minute talk about, we got, we received this grant. We did this project. This is our result and it can, so we, you know, we don't have that short. Yeah. So I'm just going to do a quick look at the application. As you look at this, we tried really hard to make things clear and understandable. And I do want to point out that it says round figures to the nearest full dollar amount over there. So I'm doing my gaming system. So I want, that's probably under equipment. So I'm going to put in $600 because I have no idea what they cost for two systems, I'm going to say. And along with that, I think I'll put in, I guess under library materials $200 for games because it's not going to have a system without a game or three. And also, I, my library down the road, they got a button maker and the kids have been having, the teens have been having a great time with that. So I think we should try that. So I looked up a button maker and I think it was $150, as it was. So I'm going to put that under equipment too. So now I'm at $750 instead of, where's delete? Oh, there we go. Oh, that's not delete, $750. Now look there, underestimated total project. Well, maybe you can't see it on the screen there. Yeah. See how it's changing? Well, along with that, I'm going to buy some button maker, additional, the button maker comes with some supplies. But I looked up and the, I'm going to under program materials. I'm going to put in $24 because I'm going to buy another couple of sets of button making equipment. So that gets me, what did I do wrong? Oh, I haven't, I haven't moved. Once you move, see after I moved off of that one, now at the bottom it says 974. So right now, because that's what I want to do, my total project is 974. Now, what can trick you up is that the local match needs to be 25% of whatever you're asking from the library commission. So from the library commission, because I did the math and I know how to do this tricky, just call me, I'll help you. The grant should be $779. You want $779 for me, so you are using the correct form. And the local match, because your friends of the library said, yeah, we're going to give you the money for the local match for this. So we're going to give you $195. And that should show up there. And those two numbers add up to 974 and the $195 is 25% of the $779. Now if you try to, if you, if you have your numbers aren't right and you go down a little bit to fill in another thing, it's going to say, whoa, this isn't right. That's when you call me on the phone and say, Sally, my numbers, I don't know what I did. There is a check, that's good. Yeah. It will tell you that. And I am happy to help you. An important thing also to remember, and I'm sorry, I'm going to get done here pretty soon, is that up here where you see these different categories, down below where you put your numbers in, we have a space for you to tell us something about it. So I don't have any contracted services. My library materials are button, whoops, whoops, well, my typing button, making supplies. Now I could be more specific and say I'm getting 50 buttons that I'm going to use in my machine. The more you tell me here, it doesn't have to be long, but a little bit more than button making supplies would be enjoyed. Personnel costs are for, if you hire someone to do, is that right, yeah, paying any person who is on the payroll. Contracted services are paying any person not on the paper. So up at the top. Someone from outside the library had to bring in to do something. Bring in a presenter or something. The personnel costs are considered an in-kind match, but if you need, so that can be 15 percent of the total grand amount, and 10 percent needs to be cash. And in that case, you just tell me, the children's librarian worked 10 hours on this project for X amount of dollars, so that's our local in-kind match. And then, so there's program materials, oh I put the, I put my money, I put my button making stuff in the wrong thing. I'm going to go on down to equipment. Here is where you say one Nintendo switch, is that still what I should say? Yep, that's still a thing, yes. Good, see I don't know anything which, and one PlayStation something, is there a PlayStation still? See what you know. I would say they don't want a five, because you probably didn't get one, they just came out with us four. It's okay, don't worry about it. Now I know, if you put in there two gaming systems, that's information, but I already know that kind of, because of your explanation earlier, we're going to have gaming parties. So tell me what what you're planning to get. Again, if things change, if you find out Nintendo switch fell apart, and I don't want one anymore, I want PlayStation 4 and a PlayStation 5, I guess that'd be okay. Yeah, by next year. Yeah, absolutely. Anyway, so give us a little bit of information in here. You can even tell us that Nintendo Switch is $300 and the PlayStation 4 is $295, if you know that, yeah. But don't cheat yourself just because somebody's having a sale on something, doesn't mean by the time you get the grant and you actually get the funding, that that's still going to be the price. So look at what the standard price is and go for that. Okay, so in here we want information and there's always a place for other. Now you're feeling pretty good about your application. This is misleading because it says save and submit and really it doesn't save so you can come back to use it again like we said before. What it does is it means you're done and it sends you a copy and it sends us a copy and if you do that, hit the save and send button and then go, oh no, I forgot something wrong. You have choices. You can go in and do it all again and do it with the other thing in there because I will take the last one you've sent. Oh, so you can submit a second application. You can submit the same application but but adjust things or add things or whatever you forgot. That's okay. Or you can send me an email saying I did all of this and that's all right but I forgot about my local match of this amount for whatever. Send me an email. I add it to the pilot so don't don't panic. That's what I want to say and I guess I better quit now. And then don't forget the signature page. Oh, that was it. Yes. There it is right there. Please print, sign and send the signature page. That can that does not have to come by the deadline. It can come the week after. See how it says are you sure you want to leave? Okay, you put all this stuff in here so you get a chance to go, oh yeah, she told me not to leave. So here's the signature page. You can just print this off. The project director could be the children's librarian. It could be the library director. It could be the board president. So whoever's actually doing the project wrote the application signs there. If it's not the library director, we want the library director to sign just so they know that someone sent in an application and also a signature of the board president. And if your board president's out of town for a week, it's okay. We know that people aren't always right where you need them when you want something signed. So as you send in your supporting information, this would be one supporting information. After you get the signatures, you can scan it and email it to me or you can put it in an envelope along with maybe you print it off pages off of Google. Here's the things I want to buy and then we can see a little bit more about what you want. And you can mail that again in the US mail or scan and send it. So I better put now. I don't even know if I had any questions. I don't know. I don't see anything. Okay. And again, please call me. If you have questions, if I ran, talk too fast over something, can you missed it? Give me a call or send me an email. All right. I am going to bring back potential controls on my screen now. Hopefully, is it showing? Yes. Okay. All right. So I said we're going to do these in the order that they are due and we didn't actually mention that in much detail but on this page you can see the dates. The youth grants, all of our grants are open now. Youth grants are due October 7th, October. And then the internship grants are due in November and the CE grants are going to be due in December. So one each month. Save time in between each of them. So if you're applying for all three, that's great. You can do that. Catch your breath. Yeah. But you have a little time between each one when each of them is due. So you can just do the first one to the youth grant one and then we'll keep on the internship and then think about the CE. So I'm going to talk about the internship grants here. And now I'll try to go as quick as I can. As you know, we did start a little late to get things set up. So we probably will run a little after 11 o'clock to get through everything here. Don't worry about it if you have to take a walk away because or you'll leave the show right now. I'll leave the webinar because you only have a lot of time to watch it. That's fine. We're recording everything and you'll be able to watch anything you missed later. So internship grants will pop you over to a whole different looking page. Excuse me. As our now hiring at your library website, this is a special website. We have set up for things like internship grants, getting jobs, and going to library school and all those things like that. The internships are for you to hire extra staff at your library basically. The idea is it'd be a student, a college or high school student who hopefully is interested maybe in becoming going into library school, becoming going into librarianship. That's not a rule. If they don't decide to go into it, you don't get in trouble. But the idea is there's somebody who you know is interested in either becoming librarian or is just interested in working at the library and helping the library do whatever they are doing. So it does need to be a college or high school student. We will give a thousand dollars per library and you can split it up between two internships, two interns if you like. So you have one person that you could pay a thousand dollars to or two people you'd pay five hundred each or whatever the break up needs to be. But you definitely want to make it worthwhile to them. So just one or two interns you can have. These are due November 10th. And the idea is to give them an idea of what it's like working in a library. Some of the, we've got some examples here of a schedule what they will do. Some libraries they just give them a taste of everything you do at the library for you know a few weeks at time at each one. They work with circulation. They work with cataloging. They work with summer reading and they bounce around everything and that's okay. Sometimes there's just one specific project they're involved in. They are our special summer reading assistant or we're doing like I said a special project the local history organization and they're gonna work all in that. That's okay too. But the idea is you know make sure you know show them what it's like working at a library. Get them excited about working in a library and becoming library themselves. We have had success where some have but it doesn't happen. It's okay. They can go on and do something else in there right here if they want to. They might come back to libraries later. You never know. Yes some people have. Yeah. See we do have here the same thing as as I mentioned before the accredited public libraries and it can apply for this. You can do partnerships highly encourage that of course. We do have information here about as well the hours that they want you to pay attention to how many hours are gonna work if the intern is under age. I think it's under age 16. There are certain rules about what you need to do for hiring interns who are minors and you have links to information all of that. So you just have to pay attention to what those rules are about how much they can be paid or should be paid. What hours they can work and can't work and we have links to all that information. So you do stay on the legal side of things here in Nebraska and yeah here's that information about the Nebraska Department of Labor has informed. We have to submit if you are going to be hiring someone who is under a minor as well. So there's all those different rules there just to pay attention to. Something else to take to keep in mind is when you're paying them how are they going to be paid. You can do this either as an hourly wage as if they're just another employee. So you go through the same process with hiring the intern as if they were any other any staff person you're hiring. So you're HR people your city whoever does the hiring will do that and then as far as taxes go because you do have to pay your income tax that all those go does affect this is related to this. They will then pull out all those fika taxes and everything just send the way they do as any other employees submit the correct forms and then your intern will submit their correct forms to the IRS when they do their taxes the next year. Or if you want to you can do it as a stipend to them where you don't do all you do not at the library or at the city pull out all the taxes you just pay the intern all the money the whole 500 or whole thousand whatever you're paying them and then they are responsible for making sure that they submit the correct forms to the IRS about the fact that you know some of this actually has to be kind of held back to pay cover their taxes if they are they are. So you have that choice whichever way you want to do it whichever way is easiest for you at your in your city or whoever does your payroll or depending on who it is you're working with who the intern is but they might prefer some of them they prefer to do it as a stipend and just handle themselves. It's totally up to you which way you would like to do that. We're flexible. Let's see here we do have for the internship grant application a PDF version of the form that you can look at ahead of time just to give yourself so you know what kind of things you might be and this goes along with what Sally was saying about doing a you're typing up your your application information somewhere else first and then copying and pasting it in. So you can look at this PDF you can print it out typing right out of whatever you want to just give you an idea ahead of time of oh this is what I'm going to be needing to know before you complete the actual application itself. This form does also have a signature page same thing as a new forms this one pops up as a PDF that you can print out and then sign scan any mail in to me or mail it whichever works for you and then we do have some more extra information here about how to you know just help you with going through having an internship a proposed schedule of what they could do now this is covering if they do all the different you know try it all into things in the library and doesn't have to be pissed but scheduled how you're going to do things and what you're going to do things what kind of programs and things they'll go into oh okay so this is just a new example of what you could do that an orientation to them getting them acclimated to what how it is working in a library a sample of that and then this is something specifically that's from the state employee guidebook to developing a successful and successful internship program uh this is something that it just you know internships in general a lot of this may not apply to what you're doing in your library but it gives you the taste of everything we just use some examples all these are examples you do not have to follow these all word by word but word for word that's giving you an idea of how you could do things the application itself and just like all the ones you have here is online just fill in all the blanks here in this form um basic information uh how much you're doing are you going to be doing a high school or college student one or two interns and then just an explanation of what you're going to have them do I have the idea of this and it is the same thing I think with sally's and how it's going to talk about you is we want to make sure looks like don't make it too short not just a one line we need assistance with summer reading okay what exactly do you mean by that we need to know that you've actually thought about this that you're not just saying oh I just want an extra staff person to help out well that's great we all do but we want you to know that you sat down and thought this through and said this they'll actually do we've planned and thought and really thought it through and had a really good idea of a project or something that they can do so you know make it worth our time to read and just you know describe about what you're going to have them do make as detailed as you can we have our submit here when you're done with it um if there's fields that aren't entered in here that require it but let you know and there's another link here to do that signature page too so all of these applications are very similar you can the online version of it all and then you follow up with that signature page um as sally said this needs to be right away through the signature when you hit the button if you do it when you're working on a form don't forget um if you do forget we will mud you and let you know it gets to the deadline for the grant and we've gotten your online application we don't have that signature page yet you will get an email from whichever one of us the grant is for saying hey we still need this factual official signing of your name for this in your application to be actually officially accepted and by the back that's going to say you're sure you want to leave um as I mentioned make sure especially the internships grants that you are taking into consideration whatever these people are willing to be doing when you're you're working on these timelines or orientation plans whatever taking consideration what may be going on next year with COVID-19 in the pandemic we actually had this year for 2020 about half of our internship grants that we awarded were the libraries were unable to actually hire anybody and were unable to have their interns do anything for the program the library was closed down completely um just nobody applied because everything else going on um particular program just couldn't happen because of what's going on in the pandemic what we have done for those libraries is we are letting them use that grant that internship next year in 2021 so um we don't you know you don't just lose it because oh well we're able to do it never mind we let everyone that just keep that funding and then next year they can now have their intern and hopefully now that we've figured out how to work in the pandemic and know this is the kind of program I can do and now I can use the person next year to do this you know modified version of it that's great hopefully all these libraries will be able to do that but there's about half of our libraries were unable to actually even hire anybody this past year and you know that's okay and he said none of this is in stone it's okay if things change um and you need to bump things to a later date that is all totally acceptable um it's also acceptable we've done for a couple um it just wasn't going to happen and they just want to return the funding and that's okay too um it's not you know he gets in trouble for anything like that we know situations change so that is the basics of the internship rate um any questions about that to any questions pop it in you know for that all right they're going to call you later that's call me ask me if you have any questions you want to know about it the deadline for the internship grants is sort of the November 10th so you've got plenty time for that one do your youth ones first then do your internship and next do your cp all right holly i'm going to give you present your control now you should see that pop up so you can get your screen see it there you are yep perfect cool so and I hope I should ask holly can you you hear any of that beeping and grinding and stuff that's going on here a little bit but it's at least to me it's not too bad but I think it's downstairs so it's oops there we go okay so the ce grants this last year we focused on um ARSL conference which is next week and if you still want to attend registration is still open um obviously we're not going to do any more grants for it but if you do want to register it's still open um but for this next round of grants we are opening it up to really anything um so if you go again to the grants over here continuing education grants that'll bring you to this page scroll down a little bit for the grant information so we're there's three different areas that we're focusing on um let's see we have online learning conferences and workshops and then these bigger CE projects so these first two the online learning and conferences or workshops these are intended for individual applications and then the CE projects are for much larger training groups um so this first one the online learning these are if you want to take an online class of some kind um for example through library use um ALA has a whole bunch of different classes or info people um you can take other classes if through your application you can demonstrate how it's like related to either your job or an issue in librarianship um and that it's through a recognized provider of online CE um for example somebody when we did this in 2018 somebody took a grant writing class um and she said it was it was really helpful um I don't remember where it was from uh but these classes don't oops sorry I just zoomed out um so classes that don't count would be anything offered through like in LA or the library commission or if you're taking class for an academic class for credit those wouldn't be covered um just like the other application or the other grants um you must be either an employed in a an accredited public library or you can be a current board member um so then same thing with the conferences and workshops this would be to um attend either virtually or in person um and again if there's a work or a conference maybe at the end of next year that you want to attend and they're tentatively um scheduling it in person um you can apply for it apply for you know the travel and lodging and make your plans but if they decide no we need to cancel it or go virtual that's fine it's just what happened this year with ARSL it was in person we had the first round of grants um and then they switched to virtual and that's fine those you know those first round grants still got to attend virtually it just we had to shift plans and that happens and that's fine um these conferences again they should be library conferences or in the application if you can demonstrate how it would be directly related to your job or an issue um and it should be outside of Nebraska we want to just encourage you to look at different uh training opportunities than you might look at normally um I don't remember where ASR ARSL is going to be next year probably virtual who knows I do um I'm sorry I don't know either I'm not sure yeah where they're in the United States so again um and so ARSL may be a bad example because their conference is next week um but if there is a conference pretend like it's still happening in your application if you want to do um like the travel and lodging we'll change if we have to like so those are the individual like yeah they also have a conference every year in November time frame yeah yeah that might be a possibility to um and we can adapt it's fine um so is there any quick questions about just the individual applications no good okay email me if you do have a question um so then this third section is for bigger CE training projects um these these are intended for um maybe staff training days or you know like the youth grants where you can collaborate with different community organizations or groups of libraries for much bigger projects um a couple previous examples um you know the ALA Chicago this isn't going to happen again I doubt but when um I partnered with NLA um it in service training day brought some speakers in um some different trustee and board development training um so just different projects or topics that you might want for your staff or community that you might just not be able to do otherwise um just think big um so just like this youth grants these would require the match of 25 percent um and then you'll submit your application and then you'll get more details after it's approved or um so for oh that was the other thing is you can look there's this grants recipient's database that you can click on and you can see past um who has received grants in the past just if you want some ideas of what's been done before yeah go ahead and click on that good idea thank you yeah so this is for all of our grants um yeah open up the selected grant yeah so if you're wondering um if you can't remember if your library got something before or if you wish want to know like I said ideas for um what you can do for a CE grant for what you could attend or what um special program or professional development or in-service could do or what has been done for um youth grants um library improvement grants are in there too so you can see all the different grants we have I think we're also going to be adding what is or yeah the CARES Act any grants that we give out that we issue from here we try and put in here too so you can search and see what has been done going back I think 2008 I don't know how far back the dates go yeah so get some ideas from there definitely okay so that I mean it's the basics of the CE grants if you have any questions obviously let me know um oops so for the online learning in the conference grants for the individuals you'll need the grant application and then you'll need this acknowledgement of support form just same thing just quick oh my goodness wrong thing wrong button well anyway um just your director or your board president to sign saying that if you do get a grant they'll support your participation um and then the larger CE projects you'll need the application and the signature page um so then I won't go through and see can you see this yes okay so then the application for the online learning or to attend a conference will look like this um I just needed to get a couple little things updated in the online form um it'll just be what conference or course are you attending dates the justification is just what are you hoping to learn from this class how does it relate to your work um and then expenses again so if you're taking a class you'll just need the registration cost most likely unless they need you to buy a book or something with it um but just you can put that down too and then for conference if you're planning on an in-conference um you know the lodging meals and mileage and the total at the bottom and then you'll submit that and then for the larger CE oops projects um this looks just like Sally's youth grant application um you'll tell me the information up top um what are the goals what are you hoping to get through it or what are you hoping your staff or your group will learn from this speaker um you know for example if you're doing maybe uh sign language for your virtual learning um are you hoping that they learn a certain amount of science that they can do in their online virtual programs um are you just hoping that they learn maybe more about accessibility with virtual programs just you know let us know what the goal is so then just a description timeline um what again what's your CE need based on in the background so is this something that you've noticed um in your community that's an issue that you're hoping you you can address by doing this training um or is this something maybe other libraries have talked about that you want addressed um who's going to be involved again this is really similar to Sally's so I won't go through everything dates of the project proposed budgets um materials training um I guess the biggest thing once you go through this if you have any questions at all just email me and call me and we will just go through it together but is there any questions or anything else that I might have missed um they are due December 9th um the plan is to open October 5th right after the ARSL conference um I think that's about it for mine there are no questions in the little question box so see any point but if you think of one later yeah once you start looking at the applications yeah you know where to find us here absolutely um no I think that everything yeah yeah um so yeah the CE ones um I may spoke earlier because of the conference happening that these current grants the 2020 after four you know one thing at a time once that the CE for the next year um will open up um I was looking on the ARSL website and actually they had the um they might think about what their where their 2021 conference would be but they did um receive a an IMLS uh Laura Bush 21st century grant to do a leadership institute um in the next couple of years actually um three years so uh that could be something I was thinking that maybe um we could help with funding for that um there's not yeah um they just know they got it uh I'm trying to find that of course now I can't find I was looking about my phone trying to find about their conference but um they said in December they'll have more information about applying to their uh thing that they've received so um keep an eye on that and that might be something that you could um there we go leadership institute outstanding in their field ARSL leadership institute is what they're calling it stay tuned for details yeah so um oh there if you can still see my screen yeah and they have a PDF press release where I believe it says December they will open up with applications to participate will come available in December nothing about cost yet but keep an eye on it so that might be something that that would our CE grants would be um you know we talked about think outside the box think of things different you could do that's a perfect example that just kind of popped right up while I was looking for something else you never know great so um keep an eye out for more information from them about that yeah we we we love ARSL or I don't know some people work with a corporate actually pronounce it arsal we can't pronounce it but rural and small libraries they're all about them here most of our libraries here in Nebraska are rural and small so um definitely look at them for more um happens and resources and events and things right anybody have any questions about any of our grants I'm going to pull back and draw the my screen again to grab things up but what about the main page there we go am I showing the main page you're showing the grant yeah yeah great all right so anybody have any desperate last minute questions you want to ask of us right now about any of the grants we have open or opening um youth and internship grants are open now go ahead and submit to them look for CE ones to open next month right after the ARSL conference is over uh library improvement keep your eyes out for information coming about that whether we will or will not have that one um we have some years skip them because of just not having the budget for it um we'll see what happens this year sometimes it's just a much smaller we'll see what I think how it goes I vote for a bigger budget this year but I know that that's going to make a difference we can vote for that all we want depends on what the federal government the LSE funding does for us there are opportunities out there for us to have more funding we're still waiting to hear is that anything coming up with questions there are not questions all right that's okay um you guys know where to find us as I said before um apply for the grants um ask reach out to each of us depending on which grant you're looking for and um we can help you get them all submitted we want to give out this money absolutely and right now you see here on this page it does have this just to sign up to attend the this end couple slide today as soon as I'm recording ready I will change this link it'll be the recorded session so if you wanted to re-listen to what we talked about today or if you someone else who you want to watch the recording of what we talked about today one of your other staff member your youth person your board members or something um you'll have a link this will please change to the link to the most recording so I will say that we'll wrap it up for today's show and I'll show you here on our end compass website the archives are all here right underneath our upcoming shows most recent ones go at the top of the list so today's will be here um this one from last week we had a recording and a presentation slides there's no slides for this one obviously we just showed you everything on the website so for today it will just have a link to the recording our recordings are all hosted on the Nebraska Library Commission's YouTube channel so everyone can watch them on there after when the recording is ready by the end of this week this might hold as long as should be done by the end of this week as long as go to webinar and YouTube Co-opery I will email every all of you who 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about updating your wordpress sites if you do use wordpress definitely something you want to look into here in Nebraska we do offer a free wordpress website for any public library that wants one and you can reach out to Amanda about that as well other than that that wraps up the day show thank you everybody for being here thank you holly and sally for being here talk about our grants sorry about the noise hopefully it wasn't too disruptive and we will see you on a future episode of ncompass live bye