Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Well, from the Nebraska Library Commission, not at the Library Commission today, I'm at home, but you guys don't care about that. Anyway, Encompass Live is the weekly webinar series from the Nebraska Library Commission. 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. We do record the show as we are doing today, and it is then posted to our website for anyone to watch at your convenience. I'll show you the end of today's show where you can access all of our recordings. 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 the topics we have on the show. Here at the Nebraska Library Commission, we provide services to all types of libraries in the state, so you will find topics on our show for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives, it really just runs the gamut, anything and everything. Really, our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries, something cool libraries are doing. We bring guest speakers from across the state and across the country, or services and products we think they might be interested in, and specific programming we do here from the Library Commission too. Those are all sorts of things on the show. We have, as I said, guest speakers coming from all across the country, but we also have guest speakers that join us just from the Library Commission, and that's what we have today. Today we are talking about NLC grants for 2022. This is what I've got up here on the screen right now is our Encompass Live website. If you use your search engine of choice and type in Encompass Live, the name of our show, it'll come up first. Nobody else is allowed to use our name because we're it on the internet right now. You'll get our main page here and we've got our upcoming shows and our archive shows. Today we are talking about the grants that we have available, so this is for today's show. Our grant programs, all the ones we were talking about today are run through the Library Development Department. That is, I am the Director of Library Development. That's my official title here at the Library Commission. And with me, and I handle the Library Improvement Grants and the Internship Grants. What I think today is also Sally. Sally, go ahead and introduce yourself. Yes, I'm the, oh dear, I'm the coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services. I think that's my, I don't think of all of us, yes. The Youth Services Coordinator, because that's faster. And I'm in charge of the, this year, ARPA Youth Grants for Excellence. Yep. And also Holly is in our department. Holly. Hi. Continuing Education Coordinator, CE and Training Grants. So we kind of split these things up. I said easy enough. Yeah, yeah. So we kind of split these things up amongst our department. So we are going to talk about the grants that we've available this year. Some of these grants we offer every year, it's a regular thing. We'd like to have them be every year, all of them, sometimes due to funding issues. We don't always offer some. The Youth Grants, the CE Grants, we've pretty much done almost every single year over the years. Library improvement internship have sometimes varied due to funding. Before we get into these grants, I do want to talk about some other funding opportunities and where funding is coming from and how this all works and in the big picture. The Library Commission, we receive funding for grants and for a lot of things we do from both federal funding and state funding. Our federal funding comes from the Museum Institute of Museum and Library Services, IMLS. Our state funding comes from the state legislature because we are a state agency in Nebraska. So depending on how things are arranged budget-wise each year, some of these grants are funded by federal grants, federal federal funding, and of certain federal rules, and some are funded by state funding and have different rules. So we have separate pages for everyone of our grants so that you know how each one of them is working. When we have our federal funding that is used, it is done under the Grants to States program that IMLS does, which is all run under the rules of the LSTA, Library Services and Technology Act. So it has certain rules. That's where all this comes from. So you will see lots of these acronyms thrown around on all the different pages, but we try to explain to you as the details we can different requirements and rules for each grant and we'll go into as many as we can today as well. Now, so that's our basic grants we've always had for years and years. I don't even know when we started doing these before my time, before all of our times maybe. All the three of us, but I did want to mention where we have funding coming from now for some of these and some other grant problems going on. And a lot of this is related to the current COVID-19 pandemic that we are still in. Last year the pandemic and everything got started locking down around March and the CARES Act was approved by Congress and that was the first bit of new funding we had available. This was in response to the pandemic, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act acronym CARES, and we were awarded about $172,000 from that. The total funds available here list on this page of what was made available for as competitive grants for libraries in the state. We also did a year-long subscription to Reader Zone for summer reading programs and other kind of reading competitions and programs you may do. So this was the first instance of this new funding that came from the federal government. So we had a lot more funding came out. We created a new grant last year, it was the CARES Act grants. Those grants are done, as you can see from the big red warning on the top here. We're wrapping up some of the paperwork and final reporting for this. So some of you may have received this, maybe still hearing from me to get some paperwork in. However, the pandemic is still going. It is actually continued and is actually getting worse at the moment. This year, as you can see here, there is now the American Rescue Plan Act, ERPA. And this was awarded to us also through IMLS, same thing as the CARES Act, that's where we get our funding from when it comes from the federal government through the library commission. It funnels to us via the institute museum library services. So we were awarded funding through the American Rescue Plan Act this year. We were given a lot more money this year. There's a lot more in the ERPA this year. We were given $2.4 million as opposed to 170 something last year. So we had a lot more money to use this year. We are using some of it for some statewide programming, statewide services, adding items to our overdrive, giving more money, funding to our library systems. Another year of Reader's Zone, a year of niche academy for tuning education, adding books to our professional collection and our book club kits. There's a whole webinar we did specifically about ERPA previous that you can watch. You want to know all the details on that. But the majority of that, we allotted to giving grants, giving money directly out to you guys, to the libraries in the state. We have already opened up and all these grants are available now. Earlier this summer in July, we created the new grant program, a formula-based grants. And I'm just going to talk about this very briefly because today we're going to want to get more into our library commission grants. But I am just going to show you this year, a formula-based grants. This was every public library, tribal library, and institutional library in the state has a certain amount of money allotted to you. There is a base amount of $3,750 for public and tribal libraries and 1,500 for institutional libraries. And we do have a list of who those are, institutional or maybe our state-run institutions, youth centers, corrections, veterans homes. But every library in the state, we just took this amount. We took 1.4 million of our 2.4 million and put it into this formula grant program where we just divided it up amongst all of our libraries. Everybody got to get a base amount and then an extra amount based on per capita, based on your population served. We have a list here of all the libraries. So this money is already allotted to you. It's already set aside for you. All you have to do is ask for it.  This is not a typical grant program where you come up with a program or a project and you have to send it to us and get approved. It's the no approval needed. This is just non-competitive. All of this is already out there just waiting for you to ask for it. We did do a full presentation about this, so I'm not going to enter a lot more detail about this. I just want to let you know this is one bit of money that is available for you in addition to the grants we're going to talk about today. You can see we are keeping track of when we received an application, we've paid out when it's been used so you can look up your library and see where you are in the process and see how much money you may receive. You have until the end of this year to request your funding December 31st and you have until next May, May 31st to spend the funding. This is a very quick turnaround. It was the same kind of schedule as the CARES Act last year. This is because this grant and the CARES Act is in response to the pandemic to address immediate issues libraries are encountering due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So this is a very quick thing, something you want to do now, something you can get spent out before the end of May next year. So that is the first bit of monies that we allotted to grant program using the ARPA funds. We just double checking none. In addition, as you can see here, we decided to use the more of this ARPA funding as the funding source for our library improvement grants for this year and our youth grants for excellence for this year, which means a couple of really cool things for you guys, the libraries applying. There's a lot more money available. Typically recently in the past few years, we've only had 18 to 20, $25,000 available for each grant. We are starting out with $75,000 allotted to the youth grants and $150,000 allotted to library improvement grants. So we have a much larger pot of money available. And because of this also, we have more open rules to them. So and we'll get into the details about that. So there are three ARPA. It's getting kind of confusing to some people and I have a lot of people asking about it. So that's what I'm trying to explain very clearly what we got going on here. And I know it does get confusing, but hopefully with what we have listed here on this page, it helps. There are three different grant opportunities that use ARPA funding. The form of the base grants, library improvement, and youth. You can apply for all three. There is no rule that you can only apply and get one ARPA related funding. You can apply for all three of these. It's separate pots of money just using ARPA. We also have our continuing education grants and our internship grants are being funded by our state funds instead not ARPA funds. And we'll talk about them later. Also, because of the money we have from ARPA to put into these two grants, we also have more money available in both of those programs as well. So if we have also had to sometimes restrict giving our internship grants because we ran out of funding, our budget was used up. We have a lot more money available to that as well this year because of ARPA. All of this funding ARPA based is a one time thing. It's not something that you can assume will continue. Our grants that we do, our four usual grants, we try to do them every year with various funding, but these big amounts of money and special rules, this is this year only. So if this is something you have thought about before doing and you haven't applied or you just hadn't gotten around to it or you weren't sure if we should do, this is the year to do it because we have a lot more money available and we have it to give out. It's for you guys to use. So this is the year to think about getting on top of this. On the session page for today's show, it links to our main NLC grants webpage about the four main grants that we have, which I think I have. Yes, which is right here. You can also find all of these links to all the different kind of grant things we do on our website here on this fly out menu under grants funding and e-rate. You can see, look up who's received grants. This is linked to all the different grants we have available and some information about other grant sources. So this is another way to get to this if you haven't gotten my quick link for this. So this is our main screen for the four grants that we're going to now talk about today. So the format grant is kind of its own thing. It's our related and then we've got these four. And what I think we'll start with is doing these in the order that they opened up. Yes, just because now you can see here we've got all of our dates available of when the grant becomes available, when it's due and when you'll find out if you've received it or not. A library improvement in youth grants for excellence opened up last month. Internship grants will open next week and we're 99.9% ready with all of our behind the scenes things and in application forms. And CE and training grants will open up next month. So you've got all your dates on here for upcoming grants. So another thing I mentioned there was different rules for many of these grants because of the ARPA funding that is coming from. And I'm going to start with talking about it related to library improvement grants. We'll start with those since that's the first ones that became available by one day than the youth grants. So you'll notice that our youth and the library improvement grants are for this year only called the 2022 ARPA library improvement grants and the youth will be 2022 ARPA youth grants. So we can differentiate them and tell them apart from our usual ones. The sum of the rules that are changed because of the funding and where it's coming from from the American Rescue Plan Act is there's no local match required. And someone just did ask that question. Yes. For the formula grants, it's just a set amount of money you get. No match to do anything you want to do. And this year only for the library improvement and youth no local match required. This is not typical. So usually there is a 25% match so don't get used to it. But normally you have to come up with some funding to help fund whatever project you're coming up with. You can't apply for the full amount from our grants. This year you can whatever your project is for, apply for that full amount. And if we approve it, you'll get that full amount. You do not have to come up anything on your side. So this is a good year definitely to get into grants because you don't have to worry about that part. We also expanded who is eligible to apply for these grants. Previously, it was you need to be an accredited public library in the state or a state run institution because of the rules and regulations for giving out the ARPA money. It has expanded to all legally established public libraries, both accredited and unaccredited, as well as all tribal libraries in the state and state run institutions. So anyway, this is the same thing that we did last year for the CARES Act. So if you are involved in the CARES Act grant or if you ever looked at that or if you received one, it's the same kind of rules, no local match. And all the local libraries are eligible in the state. If you're wondering if this means you, you can kind of, you can double check by looking at the formula grants page and this list of libraries. Anyone who's eligible for the formula grants is eligible this year to apply for library improvement and youth grants. This is kind of our list of all those libraries that we determined are legal. If you think a library should be on here and isn't, let us know. We have contact info here. Sam Shaw in our library commission is in charge of that. I think we got it all done and figured out from formula grants, but you might have missed it. So those are the two big things this year is the no local match required and all legally established public libraries are eligible accredited and unaccredited. So that's a big deal. We're thrilled to be able to do that and we hope more libraries will apply. The library improvement grants are to this year, they do follow the LSTA purposes. There is an library services technology act five year plan the commission does every year and we have certain things that they want us to address. So library improvement grants can be used for doing programming, getting new furniture, updating computers, all sorts of things. Anything and everything you can do, digital, getting a new database, buying more ebooks, etc, etc. So it's pretty broad what you can apply for here. We do have a list of some of the suggested items here as well. Ah question, are colleges eligible? No, not for these grants. Well, not directly for these grants. The library committee, there's different funding from ARPA that has been given to universities or department of education or through the university systems or through the state's department of education that colleges or universities or K-12s could apply for. However, we do encourage partnerships. So if a college or something else, some organizations not eligible themselves wanted to partner on some sort of program or project with a public library or a tribal library or one of the state institutions, then the eligible entity could apply and you would be a partner with them and then you would benefit from whatever that project is you've put together with them. That goes for the formula, library improvement in the youth, all of those same roles. We have a question about that and I'll answer your question Joy when we get to the internship grants. All right, so I'm keeping an eye on your questions and there's some things we're going to be getting to as we get to them so I may get to them as we, I know we're going to be talking about things. So these are the basic program goals for library improvement grants. However, because the funding is through ARPA, there's also additional goals. Basically, for anything ARPA funded, which is the formula grants, library improvement and youth, the key thing is it is in response to the pandemic. So whenever you're thinking about what you might use the funds for or you're thinking of putting together a program or a project, that is something that has to be one of your first things that you figure out is what does this have to do with what's going on with the pandemic? Why am I doing this in response to the pandemic? So they do list some of their goals that are ARPA specific, enabling libraries to reach residents, internet hotspots, Wi-Fi, digital content. So getting laptops, hotspots in your library, upgrading your internet, buying anything virtual, doing any virtual reading programs, any of those kind of things. Any of your safety things that you still might need to respond and keep safe to the pandemic? Last year with the CARES Act grant, that was one of the big things, because everything was just starting up, was masks, hand sanitizer. And now that we know a lot more about it, you can do things like air filters, air purifiers, hands-free washing stations, anything related to that. Now that the, you know, since the pandemic is still going, and it is actually getting worse at the moment, you may need to restock some of those items, your mask, your masks, your gloves, your hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies. Any of that, you can use either your formula grant or this grant for. And then basically anything else you might need to do, personnel, technology, trainings, supplies, equipment, you can use as well. Always thinking in the terms of what does it have to do with the fact that we were in a pandemic. So there is some extra rules this year different from last year in that respect. The grants are due October 7th and you'll know by October 29th if you've been approved for the library improvement grant. Same thing as the four-meg grants, you must be due to all the spending by the end of May next year. So this is some things for a quick project. We will work with you if there is a need for an extension or special circumstances or something, just reach out to us and ask. Reach out to me for these, you know, my grant, the grants I'm in charge of and just ask. We're doing a really quick turnaround on these because you have these multiple pots of money, I like to describe it, to use. The formula grants and the library improvement grants you can use for pretty much the same things. If you notice once we get to the list of eligible costs, it's all the same list. But the formula grants is that limited amount that you are just, you did the math and figured out how much each library gets. Library improvement grants, if you have something maybe bigger or extra that you want to do that the formula grant didn't cover, you could, I would recommend then doing your library improvement grant. This is a competitive grant. These are competitive grants we're talking about now with the library improvement in youth. So you will send them in, we'll evaluate them, compare them to all the other grants, see what money we have available, and then we'll let you know if you've been approved or not. But we're doing a really quick turnaround so you'll know by the end of October if you've gotten your library improvement grant and then you can decide, okay, I got this money, I'll use the formula grants for other stuff now that I know I've got the library improvement grant for this particular project. So get a kind of think big of I got these different pots of money that I can use for all the same kind of things, but which ones do I want to use for which project? So if you don't have anything right now that you're sure what you want to do with that formula grant, do a no library improvement grant, see if that gets approved, and then figure out where you can use the formula grant money for. So it's a lot of money it is and I know some libraries are getting overwhelmed with it, we don't even know what to do. But that's okay, we just need to get it out to you. I've got a list here again of the eligible entities and our link to who are identified institutional libraries. Public libraries do need to be legally established. The basic requirements for being legally established to the public library is your library was created via an ordinance or created by your community, by your village city, your village declaring that we want to have a public library, and you have to have a library board of five members. That is the two main requirements for creating your public library. That's about the rules about running a library, those are two things you definitely have to have and that makes you legally established. Now we'll get into the examples I know you want to know what can I do with this money I'm sure. As it says here this is not every single it's not the only things this is just to give you some ideas and a basis of how this all works. We also have some ineligible lists in the bottom and let's see you just read into the questions. Interesting question that the rain someone wants to know and I'm just gonna answer this right now I'll jump in or I see it is what is the range of the grant sizes expected for library improvement or the number of awards you expect to make. We don't know we don't really guess that I think in my library and my internship when I say 20 to 25 but it will just depend on how many we get. Over the years it has varied from we get 20 applications or we get 50 applications. So there is no limit to how much you can ask for on any of these grants we don't have a maximum or a minimum you have to ask for just do whatever you want. We just take the money we have and see what we can give out. We do award partial grants for library improvement and youth. So if we have to figure out we really love this all these projects but we do have a minimum limit of money we may say okay we love your $10,000 project but we can only give you five and we will partially do awards if we need to. So we do not know how many we'll give out we just want everyone to apply and we'll figure it out. So what we got here furniture and what's a key thing here and someone did ask about wanted to know if it can be used to help replace an elevator. So let's talk about construction before I get into this. Construction projects this is an LSTA rule this is coming from the Museum of Library and Services the Library Technology Act that all of this comes from. Doing major construction projects is not eligible for federal funding it's just a rule that they have. So if you have we have a little blurb about this down here construction installation costs. So if you need to hire a contractor or someone in the construction trade that has to come in to do this work running electrical digging up something building something into your walls um and you show that major construction projects are not eligible for this funding. So replacing elevator would not be an eligible project for this. What are some other things we've had uh you know so installing something new anything that requires you know running electrical running power cables uh running new you know anything like that seems to hire someone to come in however they do allow what they call construction light which is if you someone in your library your own library staff are just someone from the city maintenance people who take care of your building anyways could install or update or put something in with their own tools like a hammer screwdriver really easy um something easily can be then removed that is eligible. For example last year we had a lot of libraries who put up the plexiglass barriers that's just a quickie screw it in type thing that kind of construction was allowed it's a construction light is what they they describe it as. So major construction remodeling projects no if you have to come bring in a plumber to run things like all those contractors but something you can do simply yourself your staff or something from your city could do uh easily um yes we highly recommend you ask us about those things first though so if you're unsure just choose an email um and ask what about this what about that and we will you know double check and see if it is something that would be allowed. So for all of these things here we have this as example as we do miss mentioned furniture and equipment and it and computers yes you can get furniture um anything for your library it has to be movable or modular or easily to install um we do list cleaning things and um touchless dispensers for towels or disinfectant sprays um or um water bottle filling stations some of these can be installed simply by just you know you know putting a stand up in the library those kind of freestanding things yes things that require running something through your walls and instruction that's where you got across the line into that construction area. Um so uh IT equipment computers um you can buy new computers update computers upgrade Wi-Fi uh you do need to be SIPA compliant compliance with the SIPA Students Internet Protection Act that requires um having filters on your computers so if that's something you don't have I can talk to you about that we can talk more another time um if you do or you already are then you're good to go you can get all of these kind of things upgrade all of your computers and your Wi-Fi connections um like I said updating any of your cleaning supplies buying more masks PPE equipment um your collections this is something different too you can use this funding to buy books buy you know if you your budget maybe has been cut due to the tax revenue in this community going down because nobody's going out and buying things through the pandemic you can update your collections by books by magazines electronic ccd's dmeds anything you lend out um you can do you could uh get a database get over to join over drive um subscribe to hoopla all sorts of different online databases as well if you have a meeting room you can update that with equipment for that same kind of thing that requires major construction running wiring no but if you're just replacing something for example we need to just we're getting a new monitor or a new projector so it's just going to be swapping out the old one for the new one that's not a problem um things like putting in I know some libraries have asked about doing um self-checkout stations or updating their security so you're just setting something on a desk and plugging it into your system that's a that's eligible if you have however had to run wiring to get that installed run electrical and they had to get into your walls that's where you cross the line so if you're just updating something or something easy kind of plug-and-play type thing that is um eligible and then think about outdoors um a lot of people last year switched to doing a lot of their summer reading things or events um outside for safety keep doing that and buy the equipment you might need for that outdoor furniture um charging stations oh story walks are great love those so thinking about that um this is just examples if you're not sure and you want to know before you do your grant application choose an email and ask one other rule here as you can see if any individual piece of equipment is costs over $5,000 you definitely have to be pre-approved from us um we actually have to ask IMLS for approval IMLS for approval for you to do that using these grants so I know we just had one recently someone doing a makerspace and one of the pieces of equipment I think which one if it's a laser cutter or something is more than $5,000 is that one piece of equipment we just have to ask you just have to let us know we have to ask IMLS if that's allowed you know they will do their approval for um using the funding for that um any questions about what you can get to being eligible what do we have here um and then we have here our ineligible costs things you cannot use this funding for as I mentioned construction no um food and beverages you can't buy food um something that some people don't realize that's important sales tax uh ideally libraries should not be even being charged sales tax you are nonprofits um if you don't have that already set up um with whoever you're buying things from you should do that um but you also cannot use this money to pay for the sales tax either so when you submit your invoices saying here's everything we bought we will only we have to look at it before the sales tax if for some reason some company is charging you sales tax giveaways no built-in furniture um the you can purchase things before you actually get these grants this is something that has to do with ARPA it had to do with CARES Act before as well um when we were awarded the ARPA funding was March 15th of this year so for the library improvement and I think for the youth too Sally you were going to do that one that's right yeah um it can be for something you'd already purchased um and you're just submitting the application now to get that as more of a reimbursement type thing but March 15th is that earliest deadline um and you have to have everything spent by May of um end of May next year um advertising in PR is something to remind you about as well um you can't just say um it has to be very specific to what it is that you're promoting a pretty specific program not just yeah your libraries are great come and visit us so they have this is a LSTA rule about advertising in public relations so be specific if you are going to do that kind of PR um as you can see from the examples we have here for the grant after when you um after you apply if you get approved you will have to then submit to us invoices showing everything you purchased so you'll send us that paperwork and there is going to be a completion report that will be submitted later as well um on our website right now with a preview of that report um a uh word document so you can see what it does look like we're going to making that online next year when it is actually time to submit your completion report so that'll be an also an online um available um let's see what we have here are some questions can we make additional documents email additional documents to you like we have in the past or do you not want that well it depends what you mean about what additional documents um anything you want to send us that has to do with what you're doing um if you're talking about ahead of time you can send us information about here's what we're thinking about buying sure um but you will need to send us uh the invoices showing what you purchased um afterwards after you've been awarded the grant um and then so anything that might help tell us about it we ask for that with the youth grants usually if they have already looked and um have a list of books they want to buy for a particular project and they send us that list here's what we're planning on buying if we can or types of equit uh supplies for uh construction that are making things not that construction word sorry maker space yeah so that so those some of some of those kind of rules we've had before do still apply yes so this is kind of a mishmash of the old rules and new rules um that's who we have does the application need to be specific like only pick one project and not multiple like outdoor furniture plus cleaning positives oh okay um for the library improvement grants uh you you can do one big application for everything um i'll show you here the application form uh basic info there's a lot of questions here that you you specifically say what this application is related to so if you can somehow explain in your summary here all these different things you could do one application or you could do multiple um if it seems to make sense better sense for you to split it up into two because they're two really big separate projects so um whichever way you think makes easiest sense but um with the cares act we took applications that were we want protective supplies we want to do virtual programming and we want to get some um picnic tables for outside all is one in one big grant and that is perfectly fine um you just explain it here you've got a nice big box here that you can keep typing in as much as you need to um and then um you do have to choose what it applies to so you might choose multiple activities and things i'm not going to get in the details of all these you can look through these when you're applying but i wanted to scroll down to the budget section to show you we do have here where you will put in each thing you are wanting to um use funding for it you'll allot it to a certain category so you could do this as a grant request for multiple you might think of as different projects and just divvium up here and you'll just describe we've got all this free text boxes you just type in just explain what you want to do let us know this is my favorite box because this is where you can get specific about if you say i want to buy an all workstation because that would be for the use grants um tell me in there do you want it to have connection to the internet or do you want it to be standalone only which makes a difference in the sepa information standalone then it doesn't apply to sepa but so that's where i want some i don't want you to say one all workstation however much money tell me a little bit more thanks for letting me jump in oh no absolutely um oh as somebody did say there is a word limit i couldn't write everything i wanted yes we have had that for um i might be able to see if we can increase the word limit on this i'm not sure what it is but if there's not enough we've had other libraries just if there's not enough space on here and you want to get your application in um you can set us an extra document yes if you need to um you can just send me an email saying i did the main application but it didn't have enough for me to write it all out so here's now a word document with what i wanted to say um and that's perfectly fine yep so if you need to do that go right ahead just let me know just you set a little warning i'm sending you something extra please attach to my uh actual grant application with the youth grants i had verne um the first box you can fill in the executive summary grants was limited and and it's never been before so he worked on it and it's supposed to expand however big you need it to but i'm fine with either way send me more information is great the more information the better absolutely um okay so here's another question about what to ask for um would improving office space furniture work for this like getting desks or something you can add to the desk for staff that allow them to stand and use a computer or they have to benefit just library patrons um no it's not just for your library patrons it can be for your staff as well to make sure they can do their job if it's something yep absolutely uh something else that is important here is new this year because it's arpa funding so this is for immigrants library improvement youth a dunes number this is a member that the fc that the government requires you have to do do business with them you might already have one you might not know it we have a link where you can check and look up and see if you have one or not um if not you can apply for one it's pretty quickly um they just give you a number and you enter it in here we need to provide that because of this is being arpa funding all the legal stuff is here at the bottom of the form i'm just going to scroll past that feel free to read it and then you just enter your name here and submit the application something new this year we have eliminated and this is going to be for the future no more sending in that separate signature page to sign your application we're going where we've finally moved into the future and electronic signatures are we are accepting so you just fill this in submit it and you're done you're not going to send us anything extra to officially apply for to submit your grant application all right so that is our library improvement grants let's let me pop back to the main page here um let's talk about the youth grants now sally i'm going to hand over to you i'm not hand over i'm going to your page here and you can talk about them some of the things that i already mentioned apply here too so um we'll try not to repeat all those things um because this is arpa funding um but i'm going to let sally talk about some of the things that are specific to the youth grants that she has well i would just like to say that um usually the youth grants have been provided with state funds as um chrissa had said earlier so that's why this looks so much different is because it's arpa funds and it's federal funds and there's requirements like she said that we have to meet so that's important i i am i got really crazy and said we don't need any rules well yeah we need a few i because i thought who cares um all like chrissa said all legally established libraries can apply accredited unaccredited i hope we get a whole bunch of applications from unaccredited libraries because this is your chance to get in there and because we have a larger amount of money than usual i'm not too worried about having to be nasty well okay tough tough yeah i don't like being tough i'm not good at it but the other thing i want to emphasize is that these are competitive as they have always been and so the more you tell us about what you want to do and how you think that will benefit your community will be great if you just say i want to have four programs and buy some books i think that's nice but tell me a little more about that help what kind of programs for what ages and who are you bringing in somebody or you know just some more details and you don't have to have everything nailed down yet and the other thing for you to know is here's what i've planned i got the grant now i can't do x because the person i wanted to give the presentation it's unavailable or whatever else comes along the item i wanted to buy they don't manufacture it anymore is it okay instead of this one if i buy that one just email me and say hey i was going to get this it's not available how about if i get that and it's a 99 chance that i'll say yes thanks for asking it's not as well it's okay we know things change yeah it's a plan and it's not going to be executed just exactly as you as you got going on it we know that so don't worry about it just let us know i want to change this or it turns out legos are extraordinarily popular in my library and i was going to do this uh tinker toy thing but now i think maybe i should do more legos okay you know what the kids are coming in for if more legos is the best thing just ask and say instead of buying tinker toys i don't have anything against tinker toys then uh we want to do this just ask probably i mean it's highly likely i'll say sure i don't know why i would say no to that so the first in the application the first box is kind of where you say what is it i'm thinking of doing um something i want to jump in before i go into the application i wanted to just say i'm here something that's also new and you mentioned this kind of in passing before but some people might recognize this you can this year purchase those all work stations yes thank you years that has been a um not allowed um for years i know you did do it and then seemed like that was you know we wanted to um encourage libraries to do other things so we're not going to fund those for a while but now yes if you had been putting off getting one or couldn't because we said no um now you can for this year only make sure you can't be attention that um and you're just going to go down here you've got your timetables the same program role goals for arpa um eligible entities um some of the information that you're just talking about about doing your application but if you look at the ineligible costs and um the eligible costs that are on the improvement grant page it's all the same kind of things but the key with this is it has to have something to do with you 13 right um sally's got great examples here of good applications um and tips and things but yeah i'll get down here to the actual application itself and there's something else too you used to have multiple applications that's right there's just one there were still short and the long application for youth depending on how much money you wanted to spend short application for small amount this year we're just um can sell it you know don't have to pick and choose just one application for anything youth no matter what the amount is no minimums or maximums so right and so this looks a lot like the library improvement grant application because they're pretty similar but in that project summary that's really where i want you to give me some information that should expand big enough so you can say and as as chris ahead answered if you have a team project and a project for elementary students that are not the same i hope you can you can put your app all in one application and you can just say my my first project is for this age group and we're going to do this and this and this my other project is for teens and we're going to do that and that and that and then you know when you get to the project or the budget sheet you can plug in all the numbers and the totals there and then i would say for both of these just be very clear about what each of your projects might be um what they are and then what amount of money is for each one because if we do need to do some of those partials this would be a way we could we would want to know you know and i hope this doesn't happen but you know the youth project is this much the teen is this and we discover well we're short on money we can only fund the teen one not the youth and this gives us a good you know differentiation of this is how much money was for that project and this is how much is for that project so make sure you be just very specific about the the amounts and what they're for and sometimes i tell people if the youth project and the teen project are essentially the same amount of money but we can't fund both i'll say we can fund one of these you choose which one your community most wants oh yeah we can do that to absolutely tell you which one will you decide yeah so that's but sometimes if the one project is $500 and the other project is $2,500 then uh we might not be able to do the larger sum and then we'll tell you that um so again in the project summary box after you do your budget then there's that box and if it doesn't expand um then you can send me it like like Christa said you can send me a word documenter let's like it i was just playing around with it i'm sure you know typing in the words and playing with the box two different things so i don't know one of the things you might want to do it's up to you is to type what you want to tell me in a different word processing program and get it the way you want it to look and then copy and paste it in here and see which fits hopefully it all will but i don't i know the first box he adjusted so that it will take everything you want to tell that's an important tip because these these do not save and then you can come back to them you know you have to submit fill all this in right when you're ready to submit it so yeah write up your descriptions and your long textual stuff elsewhere and then just copy and paste it in so you're ready to go and then run it by somebody else who hasn't been working on this if you if you write it all up in a different word processing program and then you your library board president happens to be in you can say take a look at this this is what we're thinking of doing because she's going to want to know anyway and it's probably her right anyway might be again then then they can say well this looks great except i don't quite understand what this means and it might be because they're not a librarian but it might also be because what i do when i write is i write i know what i know so i put it in there and then i show it to somebody else they go what do you mean by this they go oh yeah i better be more clear about that particular part so then that just helps so run it by somebody else and see am i forgetting to include something and we will now they're gonna i'm hoping there'll be a lot more applications so this will be a little trickier because we have a shorter timeframe for actual decision making but as they come in i'm planning on reading the applications and when questions come up to me i'm going to contact you and say um you said this and i i'm not quite sure what that means and then i'm going to type up a little email that says here's what you explained to me was i right and you can say yes or no but that way i have something to put in the file that clarifies that so that when our meeting happens my team members and if they'll ask me the same thing and i'll say oh here's what she said about that and it makes it so much better yes we may ask for clarification on things yeah i'll be concerned if i ask you what does this mean i'm just i'm just looking at it through my brain and i couldn't look at it through yours so it's it's not a scary thing at all just more information oh i'm taking up too much time oh no it's okay um and then the rest of this application is the same as the library improvement because it has the same certifications and assurances and the nuns number and same thing just save and submit no extra signature page needs to be sent in so and if you have questions please call i'm here a lot right now but friday afternoons maybe not we're all available give me a call yeah yeah no it is getting a little close to the top of the art but that's okay we will um we had a lot to talk about today i knew this would run run long it is always does um but not a problem we'll keep going until we get all the all the information out that we need to um or recording if you need to leave because you only a lot of an hour to watch with us today that's okay you can watch the rest of the recording later um you can always ask us all any questions at any time yes anything else about the youth grants i think we covered it i i would recommend reading through that top part where it says things you can ask for this year that you want probably won't be able to next year or i don't know things might change so anybody has any questions about youth grants specifically go ahead and type them in i don't see anything right now um but yeah that's a thing too this big extra money money here um on that list there it has all hope stages are an equivalent item play away um computers furniture yeah and computers and all of these things that we're talking about here all of those rules because this is the LSE money that you saw about construction and and what not that all applies to these youth grants as well because it's the same all of these should be aimed at service for teens and kids right you just zero to 18 now there might you might want to get a computer for your your children's librarian that would apply to the children's librarian giving service to those age groups so in my opinion that would be okay but if you're also doing the library improvement grant you might also be able to i don't know i don't know what chris would say about that we want one but yeah if you yeah if you want to go for a youth one instead and see if yeah um we have a question and i think under the answer but i'll ask you sally what about escape room supplies or lockbox supplies yes those are program supplies so absolutely and we love those you know teens in particular love maker spaces and and younger kids also love the button makers and things like that and you've got to have supplies for those things too if you already have a button maker you just might want to get some more supplies with that plus you might want to get some books for your collection like chris had said earlier and usually i say no you can't just generally say i need more history books i need more mysteries it has to be something to do with your project but this year let me buy books we know you might be struggling and we want to make sure you do that um and we did mention and this is something that relates that i want to show it on the application form um yeah we were very careful we worked on this wording um with youth grants always been you have to have a project some sort of an event or an activity you're doing um and one program is at least one is required but it can be an actual like we're doing an event or we're doing a you know a craft thing but it can also simply be sally said this is okay an open house to let people see the things you have we're having an open house to show off the new books we bought for the team collection that's acceptable this year we're trying to be as willing to help you make this happen as possible but you gotta do something every year for me if you have an open house to celebrate your all workstation or the collection for teens or the team maker space new items i know you're not going to call it the team maker space but you know we bought the button maker for the teens here's our open house here's a button maker go to it teens that's great because i think some people get caught up on the oh god i have to come up with a program an actual event you know with you know but it doesn't have to be anything too overwhelming if you're not ready to come up with something yeah all right doesn't look to have any other questions about the youth grants let me get back to you okay um let's pop over let's jump up to the top here and talk about the ce and continuing education and training grants um sally and i've been talking a lot let's get holly back into here finally um ce and training grants gonna open up next month um there in january and you'll find about those in february yeah okay so this one will be pretty quick because there really isn't much different this year um for the ce grants if you want to go to the grant information the big scary red box will be gone um so this year again we're not going to focus on a specific conference we're gonna open them up um you can do online learning so if there's a course you want to take um or if you want to attend a conference or a workshop or if there's a larger ce project you want to do for your library or your staff um any of those will work for this grant um and on this page you can kind of scroll through so for the online learning some different course ideas um you know like library juice courses or the ala courses online um college courses won't count um so for the ce grants they do have to be the accredited public libraries or board members current board members um conferences or workshops um out of state costs will cover your registration your travel um meals um the only thing we won't cover is maybe like some of the social events um that they might have um that's the more educational stuff yes so like although that can be educational but you know it can but things that wouldn't wouldn't qualify for ce credits you don't get ce credit for hanging out the bar in the evening but you might have learned a lot nice but but we're not gonna pay for it um so with the conferences especially this last year and this next year where a lot of places are planning on in person events um you can go ahead and apply to attend in person um when you fill out the application you can set your budget you know for the travel the the lodging um airplane all of that good stuff but as time goes on and depending on what happens with the pandemic um a lot of conferences are making changes and some of them are still going virtual later um and that's okay as soon as i'm trying to keep watch on the conferences um and as soon as i see they go virtual try to reach out and see if you still want to attend um and then that's okay if you still want to attend that's great it'll just be the registration cost then um or if you decide that no you don't really want to attend virtual that's okay just let us know um and we can make changes later um because we understand that things are gonna happen this year still or this next year um and then yeah start out one way and they change yeah i mean we right now have our um the arsl conference association for rural and small libraries that's coming up in the fall is um the moment part virtual part in person but they are requiring proof of vaccination right it looks like they're not going with the canceling in person they're requiring proof of vaccination meaning actually sending them a copy of your vaccination card um other or other ones just like what happened last year they just flip totally into virtual only yeah just keep an eye on it and we'll adjust this as you need yeah yep um with conferences and the classes uh we don't register you for either one you do all the registrations yourself um make the arrangements and then after the conference or after the class you'll request um the reimbursement from us and that's how the funding works there um and then for the CE and the training projects if there's maybe a bigger library staff or or like a board member training that you've been wanting to do um maybe partnering with another library or maybe another organization um maybe doing like diversity training um or you can see some of the other projects listed that would be that would be something we could do this year too um i think we added two applications last year who did this um those in-service days are things that a lot of libraries do this for i know in the past that um you know you're bringing in doing a day of where the library shuts down and everybody does some sort of training and you bring in speakers or presenters you're in person yeah and they charge you something for it you we would cover that yeah yeah so it could be a whole training day or if there's just like a specific training speaker you could do that um i know a lot of presenters right now are doing you know like a one-hour training webinar that you could you know have for just your library to watch and that could be covered under this grant if you want to apply for that so are these are this these this one the CE and training one also a reimbursement grant like the other two no so that would these um if you want to click on the application um this one here yeah it should link you to it so this um it's very similar to the old youth's grant application um you just go ahead and fill that out and then if the application if that application is approved you would request the funds um beforehand and then you would need to fill out um send us all the receipts and everything after the project and then fill out that um the request for payment form yeah totally left my head request for payment form and then um the receipts and then fill out after the project just telling us how it did and how things went um and then i would after the application is approved i'll send out um more the forms and the details of exactly what you'll need to fill out for me um i don't have it online just because i didn't want all those forms just overwhelming people yeah no we don't like the reimbursement forms yeah all of our you mentioned that that's good you mentioned that alia yeah all of ours you apply for all these grants and then there will be follow-up paperwork yeah officially everything signed with us and and everything but none of that is on the website we email or email that to you um yeah yeah yeah so then if you want to go back then so that's the longer application for the bigger staff training projects um but then if you scroll up to either the online course or the conference application yeah so this is a little shorter obviously you just fill out um your information on top and just a short justification for why you want to go um and what do you think you'll learn from the experience either from the class or the conference is there sessions in particular that you're really interested in going to um is there a project at your library that you think this class will help you with you know like if you're taking cataloging is there um you know something specific you're really wanting um this to help you with and then just estimate the costs um so obviously if you're taking an online course you'll just have the the registration fee um and then if you're attending a conference you'll just estimate um the other like the travel costs um and you might have to look at previous conference years to see what they've charged for um hotels or conference registration and if you have any questions um just let me know and I'm happy to look around um and try to help to find some costs and things for you know so I think that's about it for the CE grants unless there's any questions and or something that's specific to these two you'll note down here that oh yeah the support form yes you have to officially that your library director someone signs off that you're yes so if you want to click that it's just um a short little form that says my director or head of the board knows that I'm applying for this and they're supportive and then just sign that and return it to me so that's a special thing for these CE grants yes otherwise it is due January 14th and you will hear back before or on February 4th yes 2022 right yeah I will mention too it's interesting you said it that way too which we didn't that uh when you when we will announce the dates that says on our page of when you'll will announce when the grants have been awarded that's our like end date um possible as long as it could take that's our goal um but you may hear earlier than that actually yeah get everything are evaluated and look have look through them all quicker you'll hear quicker that's just our latest deadline we've given ourselves okay I've got a question here that I'm not sure if I understand Jenny you might have to clarify can the CE grants be post-dated like the library improvement grants what do you mean by post-dated well I think probably if there's a workshop something in January and they're not going to hear until February 4th if they're get a grant they'll attend something in January and maybe it'll be approved I don't know I'm guessing that's yeah I don't know yeah what do you mean by that Jenny post-dated I'm not sure if I understand that if that's what you're talking about when I said that the I know that well the library improvement grants you can buy things before that's because it's market funding the CE and we'll be talking about a second or the internship grants or state funding but it's you know it's our rules for what we do so I'm not sure what she means by post-dated or if it's like a class or conference well well what would that be I mean if you're applying now if there is something that happens to start before that is that okay if they say what what Sally just described it's actually a course I wanted to take in January or February yeah it should be okay yeah just um if you want to email me with the details and the dates um I'm happy to look at anything um and I can let you know oh in September of this year so she said staff was approved for a leadership workshop that will start in September and the library has paid the registration fee she wants to know if that could be applied for and get reimbursed um how about that you could you send me the details and we can chat about it cool yeah just like what the yeah like what the details like um what the workshop is and um the staff member yeah the dates and everything yeah she'll do that she's a sure thing okay yeah cool any other questions anybody has about the CE or training grants are any last words uh you need to let people know about Holly um I don't think so I think that's about everything if you're unsure about anything you just email us and we will let you know um as you can see here if you notice um you know Holly and I are both working from home um but we're all connected we have our email um that we remote into we're connected every day um voicemails go to our email so we'll always get back to you even if we're not physically in our office it's all good all right and get back to the main page here so the last grant that we have available which is actually becoming able to apply for before the CE grants but is the internship grants um they uh next Thursday they will go live um they'll be due November 5th and you know by the end of November if you've um been approved for for it um our internship grants are being funded via our state budget again this year so this is not an everything um and this is our just our internship grant program um the key um the purpose of the internship grant program ideally is to get students high school and college students interested in um pursuing librarianship as a career um it doesn't have to be the ultimate end result it's okay if they just decided to work in the library because it's their you know summer job um and they don't choose to go on to library school that's okay um but the idea is just to introduce them to this is what we do here at the library this is a career that you might be interested in um is you know one of our goals but also to help libraries who might need extra staff the internship grants will give you funding to pay the salary to someone to help you out working at the library um you can do anywhere between a five hundred dollar grant or a thousand dollars per um up to a thousand dollars per library um you could do two interns at five hundred dollars each being paid or one just getting a thousand um the whole thousand dollars whatever uh you would like to do um but it's basic you know that's our main goal is to show that it is a viable career choice for you um but it'd be great if we had more people joining the profession so try and work for that but it doesn't always work out um we have some of the basic information here about the grant as I said either five hundred or a thousand dollars um per library um I do say here what I this is something you're expected to do 20 to 25 um but it doesn't have to be that there's no it's a matter of how much money we have basically and how many applications we get um for this grant you do have um until the end of November of 2022 for the internship to wrap up so depending on what your project is you want to work on or what jobs you have been doing you have until then um so this has got a longer deadline than the previous ones we talked about uh we have a lot of information here um tips and uh examples of things you can use to come up with your program or your plan for what you're going to have your intern do there is the Nebraska Department of Economic Development also has a great guidebook about for businesses but for any employers but it will work for you as a library as well just the basics of that's a good internship program um this one is limited to accredited Nebraska public libraries so this is um this has its regular rules nothing has changed for the funding for the internship grants um we do have a link here that goes to our list of accredited public libraries in the state that maybe isn't working oh there it goes i didn't click on it right there it is so you can check and see if you are accredited or not um if you're interested in being accredited talk to me about that um so this is only for accredited public libraries but just like as I mentioned earlier you can partner with other organizations who are not accredited public libraries for this grant um as you can for both the youth and library improvement as well so um if there is something you'd want to do we've had some interns that have done part of their internship was at the public library and part was at the local community college because they were in the same community and they wanted to give them all this experience at different types of libraries academic and public and that is that would be great um there are some rules about the type of intro who can be an intern um it has to be a high school or college student and they have never have never been employed by a library before so this is people who've never worked at a library new people um volunteers or do not count that you're not paying a volunteer so a volunteer if they've been a volunteer at your library they're okay to be an intern it's just they couldn't have previously been paid to work at the library as far as paying them that's your choice you can do a stipend or you can hire them as a temporary employee um whichever works best you know you talk to your city people to find out would you guys like to do this this way um or would you just just like us to do a stipend where you just pay the full amount to the intern um but you do have to think about how you want to do it depending on which way you're going um if you're doing them as a part-time employee the amount that would give you as a grant can cover like the thousand dollars will cover their wages plus any taxes um you know if I could taxes all the usual things you have to take out for working um if you do it as a stipend you give the full amount to the um intern and then they have to when they submit that to the IRS as part of part of their taxes each year they then have to make sure they've allotted for the fact that some of this money or I have to be able to cover the taxes that I owe for this so just have to you know think about that um you do also have to meet Nebraska's minimum wage requirements of paying $9 per hour that is the minimum um there is uh some rules about students depending on their age that um you can pay them a training wage if you want to um we have the information on here um however um we like to encourage you to pay at least the minimum wage because that just you know makes everybody happier everyone has a good experience but you are allowed to do less if you want to um you can hire you know high school students who are quite young we've had many libraries do this um 14 uh as long as young as 14 and but there are state rules about that about when they can work um what days was times um that's all cleared um explained here so if you are hiring someone very young um make sure you get it read this and you will have to complete a form that you have to submit to the Department of Labor um say that you are hiring someone who is um 14 or under under the age of 16 so do keep that in mind if you do end up hiring someone who is a much younger um uh there's the um rules here about how what you will do as as the library um running the interim program um what the library commission will do will get you the grant funds um this is something that we give you the funds right away ahead of time this is not a reimbursement after you've spent it so as soon as we um approve your application we will then send you um the forms the agreement to fill out and a um request for payment form we have to have paperwork showing we've sent you asked us for the money and they will send you the money the grant um the internship money before you even have that person hired so you will have that in your budget ready to pay them um right off the bat you don't have to pay it out of your own funding and then get reimbursed you get this one ahead of time there are a series of surveys and reports that both you as the library director or the library or the intern supervisor and the intern themselves have to submit they're not on here i send you a separate document with links to all these things online um that you get afterwards so there are multiple things you do have to submit and keep up on that um and i will nag you to make sure you can do them and here's the application form itself i guess it opens up next thursday basic information about the library um are you doing how much do you want how many interns are you doing and then your plants this is where you're going to explain in detail what you want them to do uh do you want them to have a summer reading program do you want them to help create a library website do you have them doing working in the maker space whatever it is you want to do um the schedule one or the timing of when you're going to be doing anything when this will be you know when you will have this intern working in the library um and then this is also one where you just submit it send it to us no signature page follow-up just um submit it to me so give a lot of detail here i would recommend using these resources that we have over here on um examples of timelines examples of an orientation plan the kind of things you can do um this orientation plan you notice talks about introducing them to every single part of the library and that's okay if you want them to know about every single thing that you're doing that's what some of these people some libraries have done with these interns is here's everything that you could possibly do as a library career we're going to have you work in each department for a couple of weeks throughout the whole summer and that's fine or you can say specifically i need a person just to help out with summer reading and that's all their internship is for and that's okay as well um so this is just example of here's everything you could show them feel free to do all of them pick one whichever it is you think you need extra staff for um if you have someone already in mind who's been working at that has been volunteering at the library or who is very um involved in just using the library and you'd like to make them be your intern that's okay you can have someone already in mind and say we're going to apply to get make you an intern and actually pay you to work at the library next summer that's perfectly fine um or you can request the internship grant and then do an actual you know open up for applications from the community and say we have an internship available submit your application to us and we'll and you guys decide who you're going to hire um that doesn't have to go to me uh and you can do it that way as well and just open up for anyone whichever works for you um we do have some questions here that I was going to answer about this uh yes you okay can one apply for an internship grant for more than one year in a row um I received an internship grant this year I'd like to apply again but with the same person as the intern is this year okay yes absolutely you can apply every single year for an intern if you want to and just keep having people come and work your library we have many libraries that do this as a regular thing every year and um it's just their standard every summer we know we need the extra help so every year we're going to apply for an internship grant and that's fine and we will most likely approve you every year get your intern unless something crazy happens um and you can have it be the same person if you want to um well hmm that actually is not because if they've been paid uh employed at a library previously then no you can't have the same person that is one of the restrictions we have um so sorry so you can have an internship grant each year but it can't be the same person next year that would get paid with the internship grant that's a different difference there yeah so yes you can get one every year but you have to be a different person for next year that gets the internship um I would say though yeah um but I would say email me about that um I mean the idea of this grant is to bring in new people all the time to working in the library and potentially becoming you know going into librarianship uh but it's not as I said it's not required that they follow through with that um send me an email and let me you know explain to me what's going on and we'll see what I can decide to do about that um I have to say this nobody's ever asked to have the same person the next year so I've never had to you know think about uh waving rule but shoot me an email and um we'll discuss explain what's going on and what this person has done or said about wanting to continue and we'll see if we can do an exception generally speaking someone does an internship and then they like go off to another job next year or they go to college because they were high school student in the whole different situation yeah now there are questions about the internship grants um there unless this is updated or not it is awesome um so this is on the application but there is a pdf version available of this that if you wanted to print this out as just a cheat sheet um it might need some adjusting but um if you wanted to you can print this out if you wanted to prepare for what you're going to be completing because there is as you can see in this one similar to the um youth went lots of free text boxes of basically just tell me everything about all of these um definitely something you want to pre-write somewhere else in word or something and then just copy and paste it into here and these are due November 5th and you will know as I said by the end of November if um it's been approved so your actual intern can start anytime after November of this year uh if you have wanted to do over the summer over the winter I keep talking about summer because that's just typically that's common what many libraries do is for summer reading program but um it doesn't have to be your intern can start anytime after you've been approved um for the grant um so schedule is totally up to you any questions about any of our grants I think they've done answered all the different questions we have so far library improvement and youth are available now both do October 7th both are um um you'll know by the end of October October 29th if you've been approved internship grants open up next week or due November 5th you will be notified by November 30th if it's been approved and CE grants continue education and training open October 4th due January 14th of 2022 and you'll know by February 4th of 2022 if you have been approved on that one so almost 11 30 here an hour and a half not bad anybody have any last minute desperate questions you want to ask us of us right now get it typed in um we have a thank you thanks ladies very informative you are appreciated thank you we hope so we're very excited this year that we can do all of our grants and for all of them we have um more money to give out so hopefully we'll not be as much of a stressful situation for us we're making our decisions this year um the ARPA funding being used for the library improvement in youth grants has freed up more state of our state budget for the CE and internship grants so it's kind of a trickle down that actually works um that all of them now have a much more money available to them and this is right now this year only us you know special case all these special rules and extra money uh next year we'll see um you know last year we had the CARES Act in response to the pandemic this year we have ARPA next year if the pandemic is still going there may be some new um act um monies or um allotted by congress we don't know um but you can't depend on that so don't jump on these grants now apply this year if you're ever thinking about it ever we're just waffling on it this is not this is the not the year to waffle um and if you've ever been not allowed able to apply for a grant the library improvement in youth because you're not accredited you can now get a part get your applications in all right doesn't look like any other questions came in any last words sally and holly before we wrap things up i don't think so i say apply yeah definitely make it hard on us to make choices yeah we want more than yeah we want all every library to apply okay it's and also it's not just us uh you said make it hard we do have we do always put together a little committee or team of people that helps us decide it's not just me and holly and sally having to do this on our own no all right i don't see other questions i think we'll wrap it up for today so um that's great um thank you everyone for being here today thank you um holly and sally for joining me um since we did go about an hour and a half today um we usually a lot give um i income of slides is normally an hour long and you earn one c e credit for each um attending each session but today's because we ran for an hour and a half we're going to do 1.5 i think that's how it works out correct holly yep gotta go a little long yeah so you'll get one and a half c e for attending today or watching today's recording when that is available um so i'm going to go back to our encompass live page um this is where our archive shows appear um everyone who attended today and registered for today's show get an email from me letting you know when the recording is ready um should be by the end of the day tomorrow at the latest as long as go to webinar and youtube cooperate with me um and you can see here many of our shows run longer than an hour kind of trouble sticking to that but that's okay talk as long as it takes for everyone we have the information now and answer everybody's questions so top of the list here today's show will be linked to um the link will be to the recording in our youtube channel uh while here i'll show you you can search our show archives to see if there's been anything on a topic that they're interested in the full archives you can search or just the most recent 12 months you want something very current um this is because this is our full show archives going back to the beginning of encompass live i'm not going to scroll all the way down but encompass live premiered in january 2009 and we have our full show archives here so that's what 1112 years um but pay attention to the original broadcast date if you do watch a recording um some information will stand the test of time some will become outdated or wrong links might not work anymore um programs or services may have stopped not exist anymore or have changed drastically um so just pay attention to what kind of session you're watching and the original broadcast date if you do watch any of our previous shows um we do have a facebook page for the my goodness encompass live show um where we do pros posts when we've got shows coming up his reminder to log in today's show info about our presenters um so if you'd like to use facebook give us a like over there otherwise we also use twitter and instagram so far and we use the hashtag and comp live for anything related to encompass live ah good question i just got about ce now i mentioned that do you submit the ce for attendees or should we do that if you attend a live show we submit that for you so i send that off to linda babcock who's our administrative assistant for library development and she awards your ce for that if you watch an archive show you have to submit it yourself um so if you watch the archive show you will um use one of our little ce activity reporting forums and submit that yourself we don't have any way to know who has watched a recording but for the live shows after today i will have a spreadsheet from go to webinar telling me everyone who attended here live um you will also receive an email from the go to webinar system in about an hour saying a thank you for attending and saying that this for if you need anything for your records for your proof for anything saying this um is your proof of attending the actual live show all right so that's for today um we've got our upcoming shows listed here i've got some more things going on filling in for october so pay attention to our calendar um you'll note there's uh one week of the year we do not do encompass live and that's the week of our state library conference um nla this year um is the week of october 13th there will not be an encompass live um at the moment nla is a combination of virtual and in person um so if you are interested in registering for that we'll be off that week um i hope you join us next week when our topic is manga and graphic novels in your library uh brooks arco is library director at our blare public library and tech center um here in blare nebraska and she's a great presentation if you've ever done never had graphic novels in your library or um our manga or anything this is definitely a session to um watch she did this as part of the southeast library systems training extravaganza i believe um but it wasn't recorded there so we're having her come on encompass live and she's gonna um talk again about um doing this kind of um other kind of collections in your library uh so this might be a good thing to watch to see if you might want to start one of these programs and then apply for a library improvement or a youth grant to create one of these um collections right selly that's a good good idea um all right and after that we've got um library workers talking about the library science coursework so if you have someone who's doing an internship grant and maybe is actually thinking about going to library school in two weeks we have some of our commission staff who are both working at the commission and at the same time working on their library science degrees um and various um a couple different three different programs we'll um talk about their experiences doing that right now other than that that wraps up for today's show thank you everybody for being here and we'll see you on the next episode future episode of encompass live okay bye apply for a grant get money


Hey there, Chad Boninger here for High University Libraries. Today I got an email from a student looking for state-by-state consumption of organic foods. To get that data by state, we're going to use a database called SimplyMap. So this video is going to show you how to do that. So here we go. So when you first get to SimplyMap, you have the option to create an account if you have not done so. I highly recommend you do that because it will allow you to actually save your searching here inside of SimplyMap. So definitely do that if you can. Use your high email address. And you can save the information that way. Upon signing in, you're presented with this screen here where you can do a new map or a new report. And because we're looking for state-by-state consumption, we're actually going to look at rankings of information. So to create a new ranking, just go up to New Ranking here, click on the link here. And then it gives you options to launch the ranking wizard or basically choose variables or locations. So I want to choose variables first. And what we're going to do here, I don't really know what I'm looking for in these variable categories here. So I'm actually going to click on Search here. And then just go up and search for organic. And you can see it brings up lots of things. Percent of people who use organic food, household uses organic food. If you want to, we can actually click on that and use this variable. And then close this guy here. And then go over Locations. And I just want rankings by state in the US. So I'm going to do all of the USA. And once I do that and close the tab here, it's actually going to open just the USA. If I want to change that, I can analyze data by states. And then change this. So there are 50 rows because there are 50 states. And so here we have a nice list of the percent of households who use organic food by state in the US. So that's one way to do that. Now you might want to go back in and look at another information there. Or you might want to just create a tabular report on particular states. So let's do that. Let's go and do a standard report. And we can do Locations. And let's say we just want states. And let's just choose a few different states. Let's just do Alabama since it's right through the top. And let's do, we can type in Ohio. If you just want a comparison of states, you can do this. And you can keep on doing this till your heart's content to choose different states.  And if we want to, we can click on Recent. And just select that one variable. So if we want to do that, it'll give us a comparison of comparing Alabama to Ohio to the USA as a whole. Now let's say we want more information about the information. What you can do is say, well, if I want more information about this, you can click on a number of things. You can just click on View Metadata. It'll tell you the path for this information. You can also, once you do a search, if we go back and do a search for organic, again, we see the folder that this information is in. Simmons Local, Food, General, Organic Foods. So what you can do is go back and say, let's look at variables. And there's Simmons Local. And then we have Food, General. If we scroll down, here will be Organic Foods. And you can say, this is your household uses. And if you want to, you can say, let's use all variables. Or you can say, organic foods, foods type most often, use all variables. And organic foods also uses, use all variables. And you'll notice we're getting percentages and numbers. If we were really just going to compare states, we might just want to just use percentages. And again, these are projections. These aren't actual numbers. These are projections that are calculated by the Simmons Market Research Group. And so you can see we have all this data here on percentage of people who use particular kinds of food by location. If you want to add more locations, so again, go back over here to Locations, Change to States or Cities or whatever you want to do there. And let's say you want to add Tennessee in the mix. We can do that. Use Location here. Close the tab. And here we have information on that. Now if you want to, we can go here and download this as a report as an Excel file and make charts and tables and that kind of stuff until our hearts content. So a great way to get information that way about state consumption of organic foods in SimplyMap. Hope this video helped you. Should you need more help, look for the contact link on the business blog. I'll be glad to help you anyway. Take care and have a great day.


Welcome myself Mr. Vishal Angire and friends today we are going to see introduction to Bluetooth low energy. Learning outcome at the end of this session students will be able to explain Bluetooth low energy. While studying introduction to the Bluetooth low energy we have to cover these topics that is introduction to Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth technology have three different versions first one is base rate or enhanced data rate, high speed and low energy. So before starting introduction to Bluetooth technology a student should be aware of different communication technologies as well as we should know what is mean by Bluetooth. Now we will see introduction to Bluetooth technology. Physical data link layer uses wire or wireless communication technologies. For example Bluetooth NMC that is near field communication RFID, ZigBee etc. So Bluetooth devices follow IEEE 802.15.1 standard protocol for physical come data link layer. Bluetooth devices form WPAN that is wireless personal area network devices network. So generally the use of this Bluetooth technology is for IoT that is internet of things. In internet of things the devices or digital gadgets are to be connected or interconnected with each other they can send, receive data or communicate with each other with the help of internet and in that case it is required to use communication technologies like Bluetooth NFC RFID or ZigBee. So from that now we are studying Bluetooth technology that how this Bluetooth technology is helpful for communication between two devices which we are going to use in internet of things. Now we will see Bluetooth technology evaluation. Actually Bluetooth technology is to be designed at 2007 means before this the Bluetooth is invented at 1998 and after that there are different versions are to be evaluated. In 2007 version 2.1 which is called as secure simple pairing in which it allows secure device pairing with a button press numeric compare and out of band. So in this basic version just we have to push the button or we have to press the button and after that the pairing is to be done between two devices and just a simple authentication is to be done and after that two devices are to be paired and both those devices can send or receive data or communicate between each other. In 2009 next version is to be designed and that is version 3.0 which is also called as high speed which enables application to use 802.11 standard through addition of generic alternate. Next in 2010 next version is designed which is called as version 4.0 it is called as low energy Bluetooth low energy which enables new application in different markets include healthcare, sports, fitness, security, home entertainment. So in this latest version that is version 4.0 that is Bluetooth low energy which is to be invented in 2010 is to be used for low power consumption. So generally Bluetooth low energy that is version 4.0 is to be used in healthcare products, sports, fitness, security or home entertainment. As an example we can see today's smartwatches in which they will provide different functionalities through which will get a heart rate or calories which are to be burned for a particular person and all this data are to be recorded in that smartwatch and that data you can see in your smart phone with the help of that Bluetooth low energy. So we can consider these two devices that is one is smart phone and another is smart watch. So that smart watch and smart phone both are to be connected with the help of Bluetooth and data present in that smartwatch is to be sent on smart phone. So you can keep track of your health with the help of these gadgets as well as applications and communication between these two devices or sending and receiving of the data is to be done with the help of Bluetooth low energy. So this is evaluation of Bluetooth technology. Next we are going to see the technologies or specification or configurations of these two different variants of Bluetooth. So one variant is Bluetooth BR, EDR or HS that is basic rate, enhanced data rate or high speed technology and another is Bluetooth low energy technology. So first is radio frequency range. The radio frequency range for both the variants is 2.4 GHz. Next range for Bluetooth BR, EDR or HS is 10 to 100 meters and for Bluetooth low energy it is 10 to 100 plus the range is to be extended in meters. Next is data rate, data rate for Bluetooth basic rate or enhanced data rate or HS that is high speed is from 1 to 3 mvps and for Bluetooth low energy it is 1 mvps. Notes or active slayers means how many devices can be paired with this Bluetooth. So for basic rate it is up to 7 and for EDR it is 1677184 and in case of Bluetooth low energy technology you can connect many billions of devices and the range or the number of devices you can connect in Bluetooth low energy is up to 2.1 billion. Next security so in case of basic rate it is 56BE0 means 56 bits E0 as well as 128 bits AES and application layer user defined and in case of Bluetooth low energy technology it is 128 bits AES and application layer user defined. Latency is 100 ms in case of Bluetooth basic rate or EDR that is enhanced data rate or high speed and in case of Bluetooth low energy it is less than 3 ms. Regulatory acceptance is worldwide for both the variants of Bluetooth technology. Voice capability is available in Bluetooth BR, EDR, HS technology that is basic rate, enhanced data rate or high speed and it is not available in Bluetooth low energy means with the help of Bluetooth we can play the music in case of BR, EDR or HS but that functionality is not available in Bluetooth low energy. For example for this voice capability functionality you can play the music on your smartphone and that music will be played or through speakers you can enjoy the music but this feature is not available in this new version that is Bluetooth low energy. Power topology so scatenate topology is to be used in first variant that is Bluetooth BR, EDR or HS technology and starburst topology is to be used in Bluetooth low energy technology. Power consumption so power consumption is 1 unit in case of first variant and it is from 0.01 to 0.5 in case of Bluetooth low energy technology. Service discovery is available in both the variants of this Bluetooth technology. Now we will see Bluetooth technology block diagram so in middle it is BR, EDR at the left of this it is AMP and the right of this is low energy. So in next lecture we are going to see in detail of this Bluetooth technology block diagram so there are different physical layers in case of BR, EDR as well as low energy variant of Bluetooth technology. So in case of BR basic rate it is physical layer as well as MAC layer and another layer is to be used and for low energy it is low energy link layer as well as low energy physical layer and there are different profiles as well as protocols in case of basic rate enhanced data rate as well as there are different profiles as well as protocols in case of Bluetooth low energy technology. So in next lecture we are going to see these different profiles as well as protocols for these two different variants of Bluetooth technology. While preparing this video lecture I have used Internet of Things, Architecture and Design Principles by Raj Kamal. Thank you.