LSTA Grant Information Session
Do the LSTA Grant deadlines sneak up on you? Have you found that you did not have enough time to do an effective community needs assessment before the application is due? The solution is to start thinking, planning, and assessing right now!
The CT State Library makes LSTA planning grants available on a rolling basis. Do you need to plan additional services for the “new normal”? Refashion old services based on the experience of re-opening? The next deadlines for planning grants will be October 23, 2020, sometime around the middle of December 2020, late February 2021, and late April 2021. (The dates are set once the State Library Board finalizes its schedule.) Taking your team through exercises from the Aspen Action Guide for Re-Envisioning Your Public Library or exercises based on the EXCITE Transformation for Libraries approach should be part of your fall 2020 work flow. Relevant community dialogues need to take place far in advance of the crafting of your application.
The LSTA literacy grant deadline for 2021 will be scheduled for late April 2021. Do you need re-think adult literacy and financial literacy programming in the context of the new economic slump? Are you newly fired up to do social or civic literacy programming? To write an effective application, you really should be planning your community needs assessment and holding focused conversations with your ideal partners today.
The LSTA virtual information session is a requirement for all applicants. In addition to introducing tools for collaborating with users and partners, it will cover application instructions, regulations, and fiscal management. It is recommended that the person writing the application and the person managing the project attend. Dawn LaValle, Director of the Division of Library Development, and Christine Gauvreau, LSTA Coordinator, will review the resources and tools available for preparing your applications.
Related LibGuide: LSTA Project by Christine Gauvreau
- Date:
- Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- Time:
- 10:00am - 11:30am
- Categories:
- DLD Online Webinar
Event Accessibility for Guests with Disabilities
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If you require access services to participate fully, please use the Accommodation Request Form at least 7 days prior to the event.
If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact Gail Hurley at gail.hurley@ct.gov or (860) 704-2223.
You can also see our Library and Accessibility LibGuide for more information.
Registration Eligibility
To register for a DLD workshop or webinar, you must be one of the following:
- current library staff member
- undergraduate or graduate library student
- Friend or Board Member/Trustee*
- retired or unemployed library staff
Please contact Gail Hurley at gail.hurley@ct.gov or (860) 704-2223 with registration questions.
*Unless otherwise specified that a Friend or Board Member/Trustee is not eligible for a training or workshop.
Note: paid consultants are not eligible to attend DLD workshops or webinars.
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend a workshop you have registered for, please remember to cancel at least 3 days in advance so we can give your spot to someone else. You can cancel via the link in your confirmation email, or by contacting Gail Hurley gail.hurley@ct.gov | (860) 704-2222.
Those who miss (without cancelling) 3 events within a 6-month period will be placed on the waiting list when registering for future events. Be sure to sign in when you arrive for any workshop.
Inclement Weather Policy
For all in-person workshops offered by the CT State Library, Division of Library Development:
If the public schools in the town where the workshop is to be held close due to weather, the workshop will be canceled. If the schools have a delay, the workshop will go on as scheduled.
For the most up-to-date information, call us at 860-704-2200.
Continuing Education workshops and the professional development collection are funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Connecticut State Library.