The TexTreasures Grant program aids and encourages libraries to provide access to their special or unique holdings and to make information about these holdings available to library users across the state.
Donor Name: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The TexTreasures Grant program is administered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) as a component of the TexShare program. Programs focusing on community engagement or involving collaboration with other community organizations are strongly encouraged. Applicants may propose projects designed to increase accessibility through a wide range of activities such as organizing, cataloging, indexing, or digitizing local materials.
Goal
- Texans will have access to shared library resources to meet their educational and informational needs.
- Applications for FY 2024 may be submitted in one of two TexTreasures programs:
- TexTreasures Basic which will award grants of up to $10,000 to small libraries (serving a population of up to 25,000) with little or no experience with digitization. Funding will support vendor contract services to increase access to collections with local or regional significance.
- Tex Treasures Original which will continue to support libraries seeking to provide access to special or unique collections of statewide interest and greater complexity. The maximum award is $40,000 for applications from single institutions and $50,000 for collaborative grant projects
Funding Information
- Approximately $450,000 is expected to be available for TexTreasures Grants, subject to approval by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the availability of funds. Funding is provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as a subaward of IMLS’ Grants to States Program under the Library Services and Technology Act.
- The maximum award for SFY 2024 is $10,000 under the TexTreasures Basic grant; and $40,000 for a single institution and $50,000 for collaborative grant projects under TexTreasures Original.
- Funding will be for one year (July 1, 2023–June 30, 2024).
Eligibility Criteria
- Through their governing authority, accredited public libraries, local public library systems, libraries that are members of the TexShare Library Consortium, or nonprofit organizations that are applying on behalf of accredited libraries and/or TexShare members, are eligible to apply for funds.
- An applicant that is a nonprofit organization is eligible only if the organization’s organizational charter, operating guidelines, or mission statement includes providing direct support for affiliated library activities and goals as a defined objective. Public library applicants must be accredited by the Texas State Library and
- Archives Commission for the fiscal year in which the grant contracts are issued.
- There is no requirement for cost sharing, matching funds, or cost participation with this grant program.
- Applicants may only submit one application for consideration under the TexTreasures grant program per funding cycle.
- As noted above, successful applicants under the TexTreasures Original grant are eligible to apply for grant funds to support additional work on the same project for the two consecutive years following the initial grant year. Funding in the initial or a subsequent grant period does not guarantee funding in future grant periods. The second and third year applications will be evaluated on the same criteria as new applications.
- No applicant will be eligible for a fourth consecutive year of funding for the same project.
Eligible Expenses
- The focus of TexTreasures Grants is to support activities that make existing unique collections accessible.
- These activities include cataloging, indexing, and digitizing significant materials. This grant program may fund costs for staff, equipment, capital expenditures, supplies, professional services, indirect costs, and other typical expenses, as permitted by the Texas Grant Management Standards(TxGMS). Tex Treasures Grant funds may not be used for: a) collection development or activities primarily focused on the acquisition or conservation of library materials or resources outside of the proposed program, or b) content creation, such as the recording of oral or video histories.
For more information, visit TSLAC.
