Getting the Funding: Successful LSTA Grant Proposals

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Getting the Funding Successful LSTA Grant
Proposals

• Jennifer Schwelik
• TRAILS Project Manager INFOhio Consultant
• jschwelik_at_sbcglobal.net
• 216-256-1924
• Kathy Fredrick
• Director of Library/Technology Shaker Heights
  City Schools
• fredrick_k_at_shaker.org
• 216-295-4180

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Overview

• Intro/Background (2 min)
• State Library/LSTA Perspective Missy Lodge (7
  min)
• Reviewers Perspective
• Jennifer and Kathy (10 min)
• Grantees PerspectiveCherie and Joanna (15 min)
• Brainstorming/QA (10 min)
• Wrap-Up (2 min)

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The State Library Perspective

• Missy Lodge
• Head of Programs and Development
• State Library of Ohio
• Process and Support Forms, help info,
  guidelines, etc.

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LSTA Grant Information

• Bottom line in applying for any grant what
  should you be aiming for?

http//oh.webjunction.org/ohlsta
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LSTA Grant Information
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LSTA Priorities

• Narrow the digital divide
• Introduce new technologies
• Continuing education and training
• Utilize technology, including assistive adaptive
  devices, to improve access to information
• Provide library services to persons with limited
  English speaking skills/culturally diverse
  populations
• Provide equity of information access to youth
• Initiate family literacy programs - target
  families living below the poverty line

Mini-grant guidelines
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The Reviewers Perspective

• Jennifer Schwelik
• and
• Kathy Fredrick
• What wed like to see in a proposal!

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Whats in it for kids for schools?

• Focus is program
• Equipment is secondary to developing a creative
  plan

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What will you do that other libraries can learn
from replicate?

• Exemplars change with the times
• 2002 Computer Lab
• 2002 - Automation
• 2004 Family Literacy Center
• 2007 - Digitize documents
• 2008 - Virtual Cafe

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Think Outside the Box

• Practices that were innovative may now be
  standard.
• What programs and technologies will move your
  staff and students forward?

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Avoid Alphabet soup syndrome

• Remember your readers academic public
  librarians
• Define any education-world terminology
• Share draft with someone outside of the schools
  revise for clarity

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Partnerships

• Everything is connectedfind partners in your
  project
• Ideally other libraries
• Local public agencies
• Letters of support
• Provide example letter
• If youre partnering, you should have a letter
  from each partner.

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How can you prove this makes an impact ?

• Communication to many communities
• Your schools
• Your community
• Library world
• LSTA

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Evaluation

• Action research
• Evaluation that demonstrates an increase in
  usage, understanding, etc.
• Projected outcomes and how you would measure them
• Unbiased outside evaluator
• local university
• administrator from another district

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LSTA Samples

• http//oh.webjunction.org/ohfundpro

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The Grant Awardee Perspective

• Joanna McNally
• South Euclid-Lyndhurst City Schools
• Full Grant
• Cherie Pandora
• Rocky River City School District
• Mini-Grant
• Our experience as LSTA grant seekers

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Brainstorming

• What do you want to have in your library thats
  not there now?
• How would you like your students to interact with
  your library and its resources?

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Next Steps
Grant Programs Innovative Technology Staff
Development and Training Services to Targeted
Populations Services to Youth

• Calendar
• Full Grant Cycle
• Mini-Grant Cycle

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Resources

• American Association of School Librarians.
  http//www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/index.cfm
• CoSN and Metri Group. Leadership for Web 2.0 in
  Education. http//www.cosn.org/LeadershipforWeb20i
  nEducationReport/tabid/5359/Default.aspx
• INFOhio and OhioLINK Special Task Force.
  Preparing 21st Century Ohio Learners for Success
  The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries.
  September 30, 2008.
• http//infohio.org/12-13TransitionWhitePaper200809
  .pdf

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Resources

• National School Boards Association. Creating and
  Connecting July 2007 http//www.nsba.org/Secondar
  yMenu/TLN/CreatingandConnecting.aspx
• New Media Consortium. Horizon Report K-12 2009
  http//www.nmc.org/publications/2009-horizon-k12-r
  eport
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Route 21.
  http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 21st
  Century Learning Environments. January 2009.
  http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/le_whit
  e_paper-1.pdf

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Thanks to

• Missy Lodge
• Head, Library Programs and Development, State
  Library of Ohiomlodge_at_sloma.state.oh.us
• 800-686-1532 or 614-644-6914
• Joanna McNally
• K-12 Library Coordinator/High School Librarian,
  South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School District
• McNally_at_Sel.k12.oh.us
• 216-691-2085
• Cherie Pandora
• Library Media Coordinator/High School Librarian,
  Rocky River City School District
• Pandora.cherie_at_rrcs.org
• 440-356-6825