The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21) supports the development of a diverse workforce of librarians and archivists in order to meet the information needs of their communities by enhancing the training and professional development of library and archives professionals; developing faculty and information leaders; and recruiting, educating, and retaining the next generation of library and archives professionals.
Donor Name: Institute of Museum and Library Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/25/2022
Grant Size: $50,000 to $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The mission of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is to advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development. Guiding their grantmaking are three agency-level goals with two objectives each.
- Goal 1: Champion Lifelong Learning
- Objective 1.1: Advance shared knowledge and learning opportunities for all.
- Objective 1.2: Support the training and professional development of the museum and library workforce.
- Goal 2: Strengthen Community Engagement
- Objective 2.1: Promote inclusive engagement across diverse audiences.
- Objective 2.2: Support community collaboration and foster civic discourse.
- Goal 3: Advance Collections Stewardship and Access
- Objective 3.1: Support collections care and management.
- Objective 3.2: Promote access to museum and library collections.
Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line.
Funding Information
- Planning Grants: $50,000 to $150,000
- Forum Grants: $50,000 to $150,000
- Implementation Grants: $50,000 to $1,000,000
- Applied Research: $50,000 to $750,000
- One to two years for Planning Grants and Forum Grants. One to three years for Implementation Grants and Applied Research Grants.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, you must:
- be either a unit of State or local government or be a private, nonprofit organization that has nonprofit status under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and
- be located in one of the 50 States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau.
In addition, you must qualify as one of the following six types of organizations:
- A library or a parent organization, such as a school district, a municipality, a State agency, or an academic institution, that is responsible for the administration of a library. Eligible libraries include:
- Public libraries
- Public elementary and secondary school libraries
- College (including community college) and university libraries
- Research libraries and archives that are not an integral part of an institution of higher education and that make publicly available library services and materials that are suitable for scholarly research and not otherwise available. Research libraries must be under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian and must be either generally recognized as possessing unique, scholarly research materials and services that are made available to the public, or able to demonstratethat such is the case when submitting an application to IMLS.
- Private or other special library, but only if the State in which such private or special library is located determines that the library should be considered a library for purposes of Library Services and Technology (see 20 U.S.C. § 9121-9165);
- An academic or administrative unit, such as a graduate school of library and information science that is part of an institution of higher education through which it would make application;
- A digital library, if it makes library materials publicly available and provides library services, including selection, organization, description, reference, and preservation, under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian;
- A library agency that is an official agency of a State or other unit of government and ischarged by the law governing it with the extension and development of public library services within its jurisdiction;
- A library consortium that is a local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library entities that provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of eligible libraries, as defined above, and information centers that work to improve the services delivered to the clientele of these libraries; or
- A library association that exists on a permanent basis; serves libraries or library professionals on a national, regional, State, or local level; and engages in activities designed to advance the well-being of libraries and the library profession.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
