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We are ready to get started with
arguably the session I'm most

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excited about for the whole
conference, which is to get a

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sneak peek at some things you've
been doing with the stimulus

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funds. So you're going to hear
again from Madison Bowles and

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then she's going to be joined by
Dennis Nangle, one of our other

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program officers. Dennis has
been with the grants to states

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program for six years and before
that in a state library, and

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he's always surfacing great work
that.

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Because you know your impact and
all the value that you bring as

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you administer these federal
funds. So here's a great

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perspective to bring to this
presentation in particular. And

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he and Madison are going to tag
team at the outset and then

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we're hoping to hear from you.
So I'll turn it over to Madison.

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Thank you. Welcome back. All
right. Well, our ARPA highlight

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session is brought to you by
you.

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Because of all of the ARPA
extensions that we've all had,

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we do not have a readout on SPR
reports for this, for this

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conference and we don't
anticipate to have them for some

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months now as you all know with
your extensions. So what we

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wanted to do today is do an
early snapshot of the impact of

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the ARPA grants and the many
projects that it funded. We

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originally dreamed that this
session would be you presenting

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your own slides.

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But considering the time
restraints, what we're going to

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do is that Dennis and I have
chunked out all of the slides

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that were given to us into
general categories and we will

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present them in according to
those categories. And many of

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you did so much work and they
don't, they don't fit perfectly

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neatly into these categories.

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But you, you'll be able to see
all the work that people have

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done. We want to do that within
the next 30 minutes. And then

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for the remainder of the time,
we want you to ask questions,

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provide extra insight on the
projects that may have been

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featured. You know, talk more
about what you did that maybe

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wasn't on the slide. Not
everyone submitted a slide,

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which was totally OK. Thank you
to those who did. So if you

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didn't submit as a, if you did
not submit a slide, feel free to

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talk about some of your
projects.

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As well that may relate or not.
We just want to hear all the

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great work that that you're
doing. So thank you for.

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Taking the courage to manage
these extra funds and it's in

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the scope of an emergency no
less.

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All right. Dennis is going to
start us off.

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Thank you, Madison. So our first
category is hotspots and

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technology upgrades. And so
again, I will be speaking very

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quickly and abbreviated idly. I
recommend taking the time to

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read through these on your own
with the slides that are

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provided on the website. But
Alabama did a lot in a

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technology upgrade.

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Arena with their ARPA funds
giving.

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100 and 898 public libraries and
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different pieces of hardware and
software. And what's really

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interesting is they developed a
pilot hotspot lending project

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which 144 hotspots and over 124
terabytes of data within the

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project. And this also served as
a pilot for a discretionary

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grant that they also ended up
getting on the discretionary

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side and they're tired and
understandably so.

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Louisiana also, again, I'm
highlighting the tech tech

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elements of these bullets.
There's a lot of digitization

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that was happening. They bought
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bought a drone, and they overall
the outcome was more and better

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access to everything that the
state library had and people

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knowing what was going on in
Louisiana, in Montana, they they

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were really focused on broadband
connectivity amidst the

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pandemic, which was another one
of our.

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Kind of leading key areas of
focus for ARPA. So we're really

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excited to see that. Again,
there's a lot of great detail in

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here, but they did a lot of
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installation, a hotspot
borrowing and this one example

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is this one library that went
from a download speed of 30

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megabits per second to 423
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that that.

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Sound bite from somebody who is
homebound who was able to

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benefit from the hotspot. It's
just really, really great stuff.

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And in Washington, the state
that we are in right now, they

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had they gave of the ARPA funds
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then 1,000,000 of of the ARPA
funds were for new Wi-Fi and a

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technology consortium for
smaller libraries, which I

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thought was really great. And
for those of us that made the

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trek to the talking book and
Braille Library, they also spent

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funds on a memory kit for people
with low vision patrons with

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dementia and now.

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I'm going to hand it over to
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Thank you. I'm going to be
talking about digital training

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which occurred very often in
many States and Connecticut was

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one of them and they focused on
digital inclusion. They had a 13

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month digital navigation project
in four different public

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libraries, which led to
Connecticut libraries and

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partners creating more space for
digital equity, which is really

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awesome. I think they enlarged
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in the state and inspired other
libraries and their boards to.

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Sustain those digital navigator
projects moving forward.

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Next, we have Massachusetts.
They provided staff training to

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make sure their digital
materials and communications

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were accessible, which we've
learned is a very valuable skill

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to have. And they've even pulled
the the attendees and 98% folks

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agree that applying these types
of skills will help them improve

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their library services in
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Next we have Oregon. They
focused on digital literacy

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instruction and have been hosted
events such as family tech

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nights and had a mobile virtual
reality lab. And on the this in

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the scope of Human Services,
they helped folks with eviction

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protection and community
education, which we all know was

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particularly important during
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Then we have Tennessee.

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For their digital training, they
utilized 187 sub awards and

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hired an instructional designer
to create online trainings

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within their Tel Academy, their
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And as we all always need our
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And next we have Hawaii, who
worked with a partner, Ali

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League, which is a nonprofit
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And they worked on a digital
storytelling project, which not

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only helped preserve the local
oral histories, but it also

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engaged families to use a
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And then we have Washington DC.
They DC public invested in their

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digital navigator program as
well and made more mobile

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devices available to their
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Additional things were air
filters and self checkout

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machines which were important
during the pandemic and as a

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lessons learned for them, which
I'm sure is a lessons learned

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for me and for everybody else.
Additional funds are really

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valuable, but it takes a lot of
planning to spend them.

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All right. Oh, I've Texas too.

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Texas utilized sub granting as
well in 127 sub awards and they

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had a digital navigator program
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the pandemic.

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And finally, with Rhode Island
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offered statewide digital
literacy classes as well as

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updating technology in in their
libraries. They awarded 140

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grants sub awards without a
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kudos to them for that. And
overall, their ARPA funding led

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to an increase in state funds
for digital resources, which is

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a great outcome.

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Right, Dennis.

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Category is vehicles. So our
first state is Michigan. They

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their entire Arbor allotment was
dispersed in grants and some of

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them were content materials. But
we wanted to highlight here the

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one rural library that used
funds for a hybrid golf cart

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bookmobile and it was done
locally by a local fabricator

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and it's sort of become the talk
of the state that seems to be an

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emerging model for.

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Other other he's might be ohh
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bookmobile maker because of the
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In Missouri, again focusing on
the vehicle theme, they

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university city used ARPA funds
for an electric tricycle, which

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is a tiny bookmobile. It's human
power, but it has an electric

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assist and just because it's too
good not to bring up, even

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though it's not related to
vehicles. Recently the Missouri

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State Library supported Excel
Adult High School and they

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recently had a graduation
ceremony that had over 100

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In Mississippi, they did a lot
peep the IMS attribution on the

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app there, which we love to see.
Again not be a correlated, but

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too good not to highlight in the
vehicle realm, they purchased a

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tech van for their staff to
travel to public libraries

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throughout the state because the
Mississippi State Library in

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particular is really a key
infrastructural piece for tech

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support throughout the state.

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And in South Carolina, Yep,
that's still me. They gave over

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100 sub grants totaling $1.3
million and again, in the

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vehicle theme they are. A lot of
those sub grants involved

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bookmobiles and a book bike,
which is really helpful,

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especially with access and
getting out to the community

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after the pandemic and a lot of
other great stuff too, and a lot

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of paperwork.

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And it Wisconsin again, a lot of
great, really diverse, varying

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projects in the vehicle realm.
They have a they supported the

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Spooner Memorial Library,
purchasing a biblio dragon

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bookmobile, which if you click
on that link on the electronic

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version, you can see the sweet
van art that is Dragon based. So

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it's it's very impressive. But
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realm of creating safe, safe
libraries and safe spaces and

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installing lending libraries.

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And a lot of community centers
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Take it. Oh Nope. Take away me.
I'm in the next theme.

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And this is related to projects
that related to furniture and

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outdoor library spaces. So
Arkansas also did a ton and this

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was their first time awarding
sub grants. So that's always a

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huge undertaking. And they did
so many different things,

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supported a lot of book lockers
and a lot of support for outdoor

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programming materials and
furniture photos of which they

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helpfully provided in the SPR,
which were very nice. Thank you.

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And then also in the furniture
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Nebraska. Out of their 450,000
they had competitive sub grants

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and so they were furniture was
really popular in need and as

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you all probably sympathize with
was hard to get. But they still

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supported a lot of projects that
that helped create outdoor

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spaces and things like that. And
it was hard to get reports from

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oral libraries to have one
librarian, which also makes

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Now I'm gonna take it away or
give it over to Madison.

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This category is science and
steam.

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8 Arizona AZ did some amazing
work which is shown in this

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really awesome pie chart and it
includes distributing steam

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learning kits and items
including telescopes and coding

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kits. And a cool outcome that
they highlight here is that

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after ARPA, some entities who
had never applied for a

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superworm before applied for
their first time. So we applied

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Arizona on their outreach.

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Next we have South Dakota. They
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and funded Kenworthy and citizen
science kits. They also used

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funds for technology equipment
and which included a scanner and

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an over an OverDrive consortium
books. Also a great pie chart.

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We love to see a chart.

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All right, now we have Utah
utahs. Among their favorite

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projects was a hydroponic
gardens, which was located in

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food desert and they had digital
skills classes. Some overall

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lessons, which I think are
pretty valuable are that they

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recommend serving libraries so
they can be more direct and

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intentional with what they fund
and what they need. And they

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also learned that using using
challenges as opportunities to

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get a seat at the table in
larger conversations.

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And now we're back to Dennis.

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Category is school support to
school libraries or other types

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of libraries. So Alaska again
did a great number of things

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with their ARPA funds. They
supported not only libraries but

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museums, which was helpful kind
of directive we gave with the

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ARPA funds. That was really cool
to see. And school libraries and

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a lot of it had to do with the
ARPA funds were there to

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diversify their collections to
help reflect.

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The community and and yeah so
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things, but they they also
recognized that it was very

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stressful and a lot of projects
weren't completed during the

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grant. Which our bevy of
extensions can attest to.

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Next is Colorado. Again, they
gave a lot of subrecipient

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grants. You can see kind of how
the the funds break down, but I

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just want to highlight here of
the of the recipient types 120,

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two of those grants totaling
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libraries and similar to Alaska,
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diversity audits of collections
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for school libraries which
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over not over but 208 school
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more than 15,000 physical and
electronic materials. So and

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loud for time but it's really
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support to schools with
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they created welcoming library
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community, not just school
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funding for translating
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what a library is for people
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immigrants, refugees, who just
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concept of an American Public
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recipients but as far as like
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they something of note here.
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here but I want to point out
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work to make sure that they
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library. They were initially had
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accept direct funding, but they
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agent and as a state library and
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Reporting the Navajo Nation in a
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still was able to meet the need
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the impact of the make sewing
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space that I recommend reading.

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overviews was how much they
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school libraries. And so not
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lot of different ways with
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of on-site workshops up for
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ally and enhancer of student
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on, they had a six hour on site
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types of sub grants. They
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million in sub grants and 71% of
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libraries, which is great. And
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they break down the good and
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Story walk support, which we've
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ARPA projects. But again they
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the supply chain affecting,
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contracted with a social work
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assessment to identify
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psychosocial needs. That
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meet those types of needs. The
recommendations from the

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assessment were put into their
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seeking grant funding to type to
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titled Building Public Library
capacity for serving high needs

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patrons and the intent for that
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states to address similar needs.

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teaching books. They focused on
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included toolkits, live support
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learned of this slide is already
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88 of 88 Ohio counties.

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analyzed and there's also
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analysis in other states.

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Category is partnerships.

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So the ARPA funds in North
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broad scope of of outcomes and
support that they provided

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throughout the state. They saw a
lot of increasing circulation of

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other technologies. But what's
nice is that these funds as you

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probably can also relate to,
we're sort of like a a spark or

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a catalyst for continuing to
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for Internet access far beyond
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these challenges and that's what
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here is that the funds help
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partnerships and understand the
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In New York, they also did a lot
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state agencies and other other
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lot of digital inclusion work,
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for seniors using senior planet
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lot of museums as well with STEM
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and equity awareness emphasis
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work on partnering with schools
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Resources for students,
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it allowed each recipient to
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the the projects were very broad
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partnership with the Community
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created an outdoor learning
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of good stuff in here too, but I
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partnership with the Standing
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used the funds to help create a
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Bringing us home with workforce
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provided 6 digital workforce
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libraries in the state with over
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also funded the Digital
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with over 50 libraries in
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jurisdictions. They created home
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37 awards on virtual employment
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as well as helping to
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working remotely.

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Lord knows, we all needed those
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helped libraries comply with
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people back into libraries so
they could bring back people

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Millstatt Public Library put up
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to help create a sort of little
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one family at a time to
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enhance workforce grants in
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parenting project with the
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workforce development,
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job seeking. They also focus on
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projects and a quick shout out
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Connect program. This is an
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spotlight on the inequities of
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technology that offers links to
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We got through them. Thank you
so much for submitting your

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Now we would like to hear from
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here in either out of the room
if you have questions for other

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states, questions for us if we
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that you want to highlight.

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We'd love to hear it.

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So no, I have to stand on my
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So North Dakota, I don't know
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it did. Didn't get my slides in.
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We purchased 10 book vending
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areas of North Dakota. We
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no county wide library services
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underserved communities we have.

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Two left that we are still
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we're really excited about that.
It has taken a lot of work and

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our two catalogers have
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purchased for the vending
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Each vending machine has 400
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An initial collection for each,
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collections and we also saw an
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Start up in with OverDrive. We
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A collection just for a starter.
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We we weren't able to submit a
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important projects that several
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Idaho were to get bookmobiles.
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Even beyond rural, it's just
remote. And those are places

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that people don't have Internet,
they they don't have access to

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healthcare. It's not easy for
them to drive to a library or

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maybe their school library,
maybe the closest library. So I

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think those projects have been
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communities and they just never
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this type of funding. So kudos
to the IMS and.

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We're just very happy and
delighted to see how those

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projects have turned out.

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Thank you.

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Madison I have a few extra
details from Rachel Cook.

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A little more detail on our
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surveyed our public, public
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the overwhelming community
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student security. We couldn't
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So we partnered with the STEM
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these gardens in schools to
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some of our most rural areas. It
is one of my favorite projects

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you've ever done.

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To Rachel.

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Bring different South Dakota,
and South Dakota does not do sub

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grants. So I want to just give a
shout out to everybody who does

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because wow, that was a lot of
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ever done before. And we decided
if we ever did do it again, we

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would purchase software to do
it. But wow to to those of you

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who do subgrants, that's a lot
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So I spent the last three years
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we could not have done the ARPA
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handling 140 grants. It was
insane without that EMS. And I

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mean, I think it could have done
it you know, on multiple

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spreadsheets, but there's so
much more human error that's

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possible when you manage grants
that way. So I was really

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grateful for that. The state of
Maryland and the the spirit of.

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Being sort of economical in the
number of grants. We awarded

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large grants. So we did what a
lot of y'all did too, and that

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was we gave out 14 vehicle
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great statistic. It will, it
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But basically since a lot of
these vehicles went to rural

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communities their outreach is
forgot who said that yes you

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they're the outreach is
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it's it's between 25 and 40%
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being reached by these outreach
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of itself I thought was like a
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So in Rhode Island we we did
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Really grateful for the
libraries themselves in the

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administration of this funding,
although we did learn that some

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of our library directors are not
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Accounting and, you know, like
attachments and uploading

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things, they were incredible,
especially because we didn't

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have a grants management system.
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spreadsheets, we built something
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changing it with every round.
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and they were so patient and
they were so willing to try

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things and spend the money and
like work with us to get all of

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it out the door. And I really
think that this has been sort of

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a, well, maybe not once in a
lifetime, hopefully.

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Maybe once in a while time, but
a really great opportunity to

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infuse our libraries with you
know, we got a lot of new

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technology and a lot of really
innovative projects that people

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did with our competitive grants
and it was just a.

461
00:30:54.930 --> 00:30:59.211
A challenging but very rewarding
experience in the end. So thank

462
00:30:59.211 --> 00:31:00.200
you, thank you.

463
00:31:15.520 --> 00:31:18.310
Anymore virtual content
comments? None.

464
00:31:30.890 --> 00:31:34.517
Well, if no one else would like
to add, I think I can speak for

465
00:31:34.517 --> 00:31:38.145
all three program officers where
we are greatly appreciative of

466
00:31:38.145 --> 00:31:41.489
the work you've done with ARPA.
I can speak for all of our

467
00:31:41.489 --> 00:31:43.020
miles, I can tell you that.

468
00:31:44.280 --> 00:31:47.866
With this extra work and we look
forward to reading your SPR

469
00:31:47.866 --> 00:31:51.100
reports when they do, when they
are due. So thank you.

470
00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:08.967
Well done. Great job, everyone.
Great job, Madison and Dennis,

471
00:32:08.967 --> 00:32:11.450
for that whirlwind tour of our
ARPA.

472
00:32:12.090 --> 00:32:16.900
Sneak peak and now we're going
to continue the theme of ARPA

473
00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:21.710
and add in cares. Last year's
conference in Baltimore had us

474
00:32:21.710 --> 00:32:26.442
talking about your experience
going through cares and ARPA,

475
00:32:26.442 --> 00:32:31.252
whether it was something the IMS
evaluation team would think

476
00:32:31.252 --> 00:32:36.141
about investing money in to do
more of a on the side research

477
00:32:36.141 --> 00:32:41.346
study. Your conversation with us
was the first opportunity we had

478
00:32:41.346 --> 00:32:43.159
to really discuss that.

479
00:32:44.060 --> 00:32:48.005
And like so many things, Emily
took up the baton and is

480
00:32:48.005 --> 00:32:52.513
actually going to make this next
step a reality. So we're going

481
00:32:52.513 --> 00:32:56.599
to hear from her a year later on
evaluating cares in our.

482
00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:09.370
Hey, it's me again. Nice to see
you.

483
00:33:10.970 --> 00:33:15.726
This time I get a bonus 15
minutes instead of a -, 15

484
00:33:15.726 --> 00:33:18.810
minutes. So just talk really
slow.

485
00:33:20.150 --> 00:33:20.760
Umm.

486
00:33:22.350 --> 00:33:25.514
I know I I do. I do always
appreciate a little bit of extra

487
00:33:25.514 --> 00:33:28.678
break, but I'm of course going
to make you do a little work

488
00:33:28.678 --> 00:33:30.260
before you get that break, so.

489
00:33:32.310 --> 00:33:36.872
I'm going to some of what I'm
going to show you is going to be

490
00:33:36.872 --> 00:33:41.434
a refresh of what you saw last
year. We've talked about this a

491
00:33:41.434 --> 00:33:45.707
number of times. Umm, I think
the real important take away

492
00:33:45.707 --> 00:33:50.269
that we want to share with you
today is that of the evaluation

493
00:33:50.269 --> 00:33:54.831
funds that we're putting towards
the stimulus dollars that IMS

494
00:33:54.831 --> 00:33:59.393
delivered, we're putting it all
towards the work that you did.

495
00:33:59.393 --> 00:34:00.480
So no pressure.

496
00:34:02.130 --> 00:34:05.580
We ended up spending the
majority of our stimulus funds

497
00:34:05.580 --> 00:34:09.277
through the grants to states
programs. The structure really

498
00:34:09.277 --> 00:34:13.282
did help. I am less efficiently
get money out the door and so we

499
00:34:13.282 --> 00:34:16.856
want to be able to talk about
that. We want to be able to

500
00:34:16.856 --> 00:34:20.677
study that and understand what
that meant and what that looks

501
00:34:20.677 --> 00:34:24.559
like. I'm going to take a step
back for a second because I was

502
00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:28.009
sitting with PLA, the Public
Library association at the

503
00:34:28.009 --> 00:34:31.830
beginning of the pandemic and
helped with the both the March.

504
00:34:31.910 --> 00:34:35.381
In the May surveys that we sent
out to libraries across the

505
00:34:35.381 --> 00:34:38.969
United States, including state
libraries, to ask kind of that

506
00:34:38.969 --> 00:34:42.730
future anticipation what's going
to happen? What are we? What do

507
00:34:42.730 --> 00:34:46.318
we think our budgets are going
to look like in this pandemic?

508
00:34:46.318 --> 00:34:49.790
What do we think is going to
happen to our structures? What

509
00:34:49.790 --> 00:34:53.377
do we think is going to happen
to our libraries? What are our

510
00:34:53.377 --> 00:34:55.750
greatest fears? What our
greatest needs?

511
00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:01.338
And I was just refreshing. I
remember looking at the data at

512
00:35:01.338 --> 00:35:06.197
in in my spare bedroom, in my
house and late at night in the

513
00:35:06.197 --> 00:35:11.214
dark with, you know, like data
just coming out of my ears. And

514
00:35:11.214 --> 00:35:12.330
there is this.

515
00:35:13.220 --> 00:35:18.037
Really, there was this sense
across the board and especially

516
00:35:18.037 --> 00:35:23.250
at the state level early on that
a lot of what you all were going

517
00:35:23.250 --> 00:35:28.146
to experience in this crisis was
going to be a repeat of what

518
00:35:28.146 --> 00:35:32.490
happened in the 2008 recession
and in 2008 in the 2008

519
00:35:32.490 --> 00:35:33.280
recession.

520
00:35:34.390 --> 00:35:38.271
So many state libraries were
gutted and then it took so long

521
00:35:38.271 --> 00:35:42.280
to be able to hire state backs
state staff back, to be able to

522
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:46.288
reinvigorate your budgets, to be
able to get yourselves at the

523
00:35:46.288 --> 00:35:50.170
level that you were when the
pandemic hit. And so I remember

524
00:35:50.170 --> 00:35:52.970
just kind of having this
reflective thought

525
00:35:52.970 --> 00:35:56.724
overwhelmingly that there was
this real fear that that you

526
00:35:56.724 --> 00:36:00.669
were going to lose your jobs,
your state libraries were going

527
00:36:00.669 --> 00:36:04.359
to be targeted, that you were
just going to be wiped out.

528
00:36:04.430 --> 00:36:07.588
Because of tax revenue losses
and that libraries would, your

529
00:36:07.588 --> 00:36:10.798
public libraries in your states
would experience a lot of the

530
00:36:10.798 --> 00:36:11.419
same things.

531
00:36:12.430 --> 00:36:12.890
And.

532
00:36:13.660 --> 00:36:18.973
To listen today, to have you. By
the way, everyone's hiring, so

533
00:36:18.973 --> 00:36:22.710
you know, raise your hand if you
have a job.

534
00:36:24.670 --> 00:36:27.727
First of all, that's telling,
right? The fact that, like,

535
00:36:27.727 --> 00:36:30.836
you're all in a position where
you're able to start hiring

536
00:36:30.836 --> 00:36:34.210
people even if you lost people
early on, a lot of that rehiring

537
00:36:34.210 --> 00:36:36.740
didn't happen for a number of
years after 2008.

538
00:36:38.470 --> 00:36:41.390
Based on my recollection of what
I remember public libraries

539
00:36:41.390 --> 00:36:43.450
talking about when I first
started at PLA.

540
00:36:45.870 --> 00:36:50.237
You know, there is also like the
there were funds you were able

541
00:36:50.237 --> 00:36:54.400
were able to get funds from the
feds to your states, to your

542
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:57.130
libraries that really helped
stabilize.

543
00:36:57.820 --> 00:37:00.670
A lot of places that just
believed they were going to be

544
00:37:00.670 --> 00:37:01.170
shut down.

545
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:03.930
And, you know, people.

546
00:37:04.850 --> 00:37:08.812
The the sentiment that I got out
of the comments that were coming

547
00:37:08.812 --> 00:37:12.054
through is fear of of what was
going to happen to the

548
00:37:12.054 --> 00:37:15.296
communities because the
libraries closed their doors,

549
00:37:15.296 --> 00:37:19.138
fear at the state level of what
you are not going to be able to

550
00:37:19.138 --> 00:37:20.880
provide your local libraries.

551
00:37:21.790 --> 00:37:26.545
And we're in a position now
where we're hearing we got a ton

552
00:37:26.545 --> 00:37:29.430
of money we need to take a
breather.

553
00:37:30.810 --> 00:37:34.753
We're still trying to get the
money out the door, but that's a

554
00:37:34.753 --> 00:37:38.446
very different scenario that
than what I think a lot of us

555
00:37:38.446 --> 00:37:42.327
were anticipating when March
2020 rolled around and we didn't

556
00:37:42.327 --> 00:37:43.830
know what was happening.

557
00:37:45.560 --> 00:37:50.730
The we asked states in the May
we actually did a division of.

558
00:37:51.580 --> 00:37:51.970
Umm.

559
00:37:52.990 --> 00:37:57.689
Data by state academic K12 and
public libraries. In the second

560
00:37:57.689 --> 00:38:02.239
survey that PLA did, we asked
libraries what they needed the

561
00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:05.000
most from their state
organizations.

562
00:38:05.870 --> 00:38:10.515
And they said they needed help
communicating value, getting

563
00:38:10.515 --> 00:38:15.470
funding and getting guidance on
how to manage the pandemic and.

564
00:38:16.590 --> 00:38:20.438
I'm gonna let you, I'm going to
leave the guidance in the kind

565
00:38:20.438 --> 00:38:24.103
of political realm over here,
depending on who you're like,

566
00:38:24.103 --> 00:38:27.829
what your legislature looks
like. But when we look at all of

567
00:38:27.829 --> 00:38:31.616
the work that you did with the
ARPA funds and the care funds,

568
00:38:31.616 --> 00:38:35.159
cares funds, I feel like I'm
always so able to articulate

569
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:39.069
value of what you all were able
to do and what public libraries

570
00:38:39.069 --> 00:38:41.940
were able to do with these funds
very quickly.

571
00:38:42.620 --> 00:38:46.658
And we haven't even gotten all
the data in yet. And I think

572
00:38:46.658 --> 00:38:50.898
that's really telling in terms
of just the the want to be able

573
00:38:50.898 --> 00:38:55.071
to really invigorate libraries
at a time when there was a lot

574
00:38:55.071 --> 00:38:57.360
of uncertainty and a lot of
fear.

575
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:02.593
And if you all even just being
in your positions, give yourself

576
00:39:02.593 --> 00:39:06.974
just a little bit of recognition
if not a lot of recognition for

577
00:39:06.974 --> 00:39:11.086
helping to advocate to get the
funding that you got for your

578
00:39:11.086 --> 00:39:15.399
states. We're you know, we can
go back and we can start looking

579
00:39:15.399 --> 00:39:19.511
at some of the data from early
on and say way to go like you

580
00:39:19.511 --> 00:39:22.139
guys didn't just administer the
funds.

581
00:39:23.080 --> 00:39:27.224
Your knowledge or experience,
your want to help your libraries

582
00:39:27.224 --> 00:39:30.975
really did help us be able to
get you funds that weren't

583
00:39:30.975 --> 00:39:34.659
around in the in a recession
that had a really negative

584
00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:35.119
impact.

585
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:36.610
Years ago.

586
00:39:39.100 --> 00:39:43.625
You all also said that for
states, look, just looking at

587
00:39:43.625 --> 00:39:48.706
the state level data, 12, we had
12 state responses, so about a

588
00:39:48.706 --> 00:39:50.850
25 cent, 25% response rate.

589
00:39:52.010 --> 00:39:55.558
You all said that that you had
concerns that you were not going

590
00:39:55.558 --> 00:39:57.000
to be able to hire people.

591
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.447
Still seems to be a concern.
Again, everyone's got a job

592
00:40:00.447 --> 00:40:03.240
opening somewhere out there, but
your hiring was going to get

593
00:40:03.240 --> 00:40:06.078
just Nicks that you were going
to have this great need and you

594
00:40:06.078 --> 00:40:07.790
wouldn't even be able to hire
people.

595
00:40:08.690 --> 00:40:11.420
You said that you were concerned
about your funding dropping.

596
00:40:12.160 --> 00:40:15.832
For professional development and
print collections, you

597
00:40:15.832 --> 00:40:19.505
anticipated money losing money
on programs and resuming

598
00:40:19.505 --> 00:40:22.849
operations, but you did
anticipate money going up.

599
00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:26.380
For services and what I.

600
00:40:27.610 --> 00:40:31.246
You know, I think it's again
thinking about now like we had a

601
00:40:31.246 --> 00:40:34.296
lot of money go into
professional development. When

602
00:40:34.296 --> 00:40:37.639
we look at the cars and our
price funds. We had a lot of

603
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:40.630
money going into helping
libraries shift into that

604
00:40:40.630 --> 00:40:44.501
virtual space when they couldn't
have people in person or getting

605
00:40:44.501 --> 00:40:48.196
out in the community through the
bookmobiles or the virtual or

606
00:40:48.196 --> 00:40:51.950
the, you know, one off library
structures, temporary libraries.

607
00:40:52.770 --> 00:40:56.810
I think print collections, I'll
just kind of leave that one

608
00:40:56.810 --> 00:41:00.513
there. I think there's a lot
more to print collections

609
00:41:00.513 --> 00:41:04.890
changing than just the pandemic,
but that certainly accelerated.

610
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:10.817
I think a lot of shifting from
print to digital digital, so I

611
00:41:10.817 --> 00:41:15.556
know this isn't it wasn't an
IMLS study. I should of course

612
00:41:15.556 --> 00:41:19.821
in my like due diligence of
caring about research and

613
00:41:19.821 --> 00:41:20.689
statistics.

614
00:41:22.080 --> 00:41:26.605
This wasn't something that we
sent through a statistical

615
00:41:26.605 --> 00:41:31.210
package and can say with
definitive assurance that all of

616
00:41:31.210 --> 00:41:33.910
these data are correct, but
when?

617
00:41:34.940 --> 00:41:38.546
Even now, like going back,
thinking back years later, I

618
00:41:38.546 --> 00:41:42.733
think a lot of what we found in
those surveys through the Public

619
00:41:42.733 --> 00:41:46.597
Library Association really did
really is going to give us a

620
00:41:46.597 --> 00:41:50.268
good opportunity in the
evaluation in retrospect to say,

621
00:41:50.268 --> 00:41:54.068
what is it, what is it that
people were most afraid about?

622
00:41:54.068 --> 00:41:58.061
How are we able to help divert
some of those fears? How we're

623
00:41:58.061 --> 00:42:01.475
able to support libraries
staying open and then help

624
00:42:01.475 --> 00:42:03.150
support their communities.

625
00:42:05.050 --> 00:42:09.101
So with that, I will get off my
soapbox, just give yourself a

626
00:42:09.101 --> 00:42:13.283
pound back, congratulations and
we'll get on to the rest of our

627
00:42:13.283 --> 00:42:14.460
scheduled program.

628
00:42:17.290 --> 00:42:22.730
The evaluation itself like any
good evaluation if you are still

629
00:42:22.730 --> 00:42:28.255
traumatized from the evaluation
you did from your last five year

630
00:42:28.255 --> 00:42:28.680
plan.

631
00:42:30.080 --> 00:42:32.607
You'll know that you're we're
going to go through all of the

632
00:42:32.607 --> 00:42:35.176
documentation, we're going to
look at all the data, and we're

633
00:42:35.176 --> 00:42:37.869
going to ask ourselves, what did
we do well and what could we do

634
00:42:37.869 --> 00:42:38.159
better?

635
00:42:40.290 --> 00:42:43.293
That means that we will be
coming to you for data

636
00:42:43.293 --> 00:42:46.958
collection. You are our primary
data collection targets. But

637
00:42:46.958 --> 00:42:50.322
fortunately, we are going to
have a lot of data already

638
00:42:50.322 --> 00:42:54.047
collected like what we just saw
Dennis and Madison present in

639
00:42:54.047 --> 00:42:57.651
the slides, which are already
reporting into the SPR. We're

640
00:42:57.651 --> 00:43:01.256
going to be going in there.
We're going to be dissecting it

641
00:43:01.256 --> 00:43:04.080
and looking at it left, right
and upside down.

642
00:43:05.130 --> 00:43:08.419
With the idea that at the end of
it, we're going to get an

643
00:43:08.419 --> 00:43:11.875
evaluation report that's going
to talk about not only what we

644
00:43:11.875 --> 00:43:14.830
found in the distribution of
value evaluation funds.

645
00:43:16.120 --> 00:43:19.921
But our hope is that it's going
to talk about that value ad that

646
00:43:19.921 --> 00:43:23.080
I just shared with you as my own
personal reflection.

647
00:43:23.830 --> 00:43:24.470
Umm.

648
00:43:25.510 --> 00:43:30.307
We know that state lawmakers are
looking very closely at how

649
00:43:30.307 --> 00:43:33.690
stimulus funds were spent in
their states.

650
00:43:34.420 --> 00:43:38.881
And we want to be able to give
you data points to be able to

651
00:43:38.881 --> 00:43:43.197
talk to your legislators and
talk to your federal staff as

652
00:43:43.197 --> 00:43:47.512
well as ourselves when we're
talking about the way we were

653
00:43:47.512 --> 00:43:51.170
able to move funds from IMS out
into communities.

654
00:43:53.030 --> 00:43:58.877
Just to reiterate the wonderful
message that Terry shared about

655
00:43:58.877 --> 00:44:03.080
trying to prevent further
extension requests.

656
00:44:04.790 --> 00:44:07.330
We do want to start the
evaluation.

657
00:44:08.110 --> 00:44:13.163
Sometime this year, so it would
be of great benefit to myself as

658
00:44:13.163 --> 00:44:18.216
someone who likes data, to have
all the data in, so I would also

659
00:44:18.216 --> 00:44:21.560
very much appreciate it if
you're able to.

660
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.600
Close everything out, but we'll
work with what we got.

661
00:44:26.500 --> 00:44:28.310
The idea being that we'll have a
report.

662
00:44:29.100 --> 00:44:31.090
About a year and some change
out.

663
00:44:33.330 --> 00:44:37.040
This again, many of you have
already seen for the five of you

664
00:44:37.040 --> 00:44:40.809
that were on this side of the
room who weren't here last year,

665
00:44:40.809 --> 00:44:44.579
this might be a new slide for
you. This is where this is cares

666
00:44:44.579 --> 00:44:48.289
dollars, right. So this is the
very first chunk of money that

667
00:44:48.289 --> 00:44:51.999
went out the door. This is what
that distribution looks like.

668
00:44:53.370 --> 00:44:57.336
Again, thinking back to what we
heard libraries needing early on

669
00:44:57.336 --> 00:45:01.058
like these have, the hotspots
showed up here and throughout,

670
00:45:01.058 --> 00:45:04.170
that digital access piece became
really important.

671
00:45:06.130 --> 00:45:06.910
You know we.

672
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:11.570
We had to shift, the field had
to shift very suddenly and that

673
00:45:11.570 --> 00:45:14.922
just meant these. This is, I
think really speaks to the

674
00:45:14.922 --> 00:45:18.813
demand of where the library, the
libraries needed to shift to be

675
00:45:18.813 --> 00:45:20.310
able to provide services.

676
00:45:22.450 --> 00:45:25.320
These are the areas that we
tended to see.

677
00:45:26.190 --> 00:45:29.570
The the types of projects being
funded.

678
00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:34.654
Connectivity again shows up at
the at the top, including

679
00:45:34.654 --> 00:45:38.630
including Internet upgrades,
digital content, workforce, PAP

680
00:45:38.630 --> 00:45:42.150
sanitizing and learning kits.
This would be by count.

681
00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:44.850
Of activity.

682
00:45:45.570 --> 00:45:48.574
And then this would be at the
state level. So where did

683
00:45:48.574 --> 00:45:48.950
states?

684
00:45:50.390 --> 00:45:51.950
Invest their funds in cares.

685
00:45:56.140 --> 00:46:00.426
Last June, when we were in
Baltimore, we asked LST

686
00:46:00.426 --> 00:46:05.133
coordinators and chiefs about
the stories you were most

687
00:46:05.133 --> 00:46:06.310
interested in.

688
00:46:07.040 --> 00:46:08.900
If we were to do an evaluation.

689
00:46:09.640 --> 00:46:13.495
How did you want to be involved?
What is it that would be good

690
00:46:13.495 --> 00:46:17.289
for you and what might be some
topics or things that we would

691
00:46:17.289 --> 00:46:21.083
want to be more that might be
more politically sensitive that

692
00:46:21.083 --> 00:46:22.430
we should be aware of?

693
00:46:23.780 --> 00:46:27.676
We then met in December with
Cozla, shared some of what we

694
00:46:27.676 --> 00:46:31.309
heard from you at the June
conference, that you wanted

695
00:46:31.309 --> 00:46:34.743
further discussions on
administering stimulus funds

696
00:46:34.743 --> 00:46:38.639
during an emergency and that
that post recovery story from

697
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:41.810
the States perspective seemed
really important.

698
00:46:43.780 --> 00:46:46.639
I'm a westies. This is a great
opportunity to leverage our

699
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:47.900
state federal partnership.

700
00:46:49.020 --> 00:46:49.440
But.

701
00:46:50.560 --> 00:46:54.309
We also really heard that what
you wanted would be assets that

702
00:46:54.309 --> 00:46:57.999
you could use, PowerPoints, one
pagers, things that you could

703
00:46:57.999 --> 00:47:01.689
pull really quickly off of the
Internet that would that would

704
00:47:01.689 --> 00:47:05.200
look nice and tell a really
quick story of what your state

705
00:47:05.200 --> 00:47:07.699
did or what we did at the
national level.

706
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:13.410
And so we've taken the feedback
we've gathered so far, drafted

707
00:47:13.410 --> 00:47:17.565
these research questions here.
This is what's going to start to

708
00:47:17.565 --> 00:47:21.721
go into our evaluation scope of
work that we will pull together

709
00:47:21.721 --> 00:47:25.876
and then send out to bid, have
an evaluator come to us and tell

710
00:47:25.876 --> 00:47:30.162
us how they might be able to run
this evaluation. And we'll focus

711
00:47:30.162 --> 00:47:34.187
on the different ways the funds
went out the door, technology

712
00:47:34.187 --> 00:47:36.719
access and then those lessons
learned.

713
00:47:38.600 --> 00:47:42.570
We have, we have some hypothesis
that we're going to be testing.

714
00:47:42.570 --> 00:47:46.419
We certainly heard from Kasla in
December that just because we

715
00:47:46.419 --> 00:47:50.146
had the, the Cares Act dollars
did not necessarily mean that

716
00:47:50.146 --> 00:47:53.506
ARPA dollars were easy to
administer. So some of these

717
00:47:53.506 --> 00:47:57.476
hypotheses were already starting
to get a little bit of feedback

718
00:47:57.476 --> 00:48:01.142
on that might, they might need
to be tweaked, but that's of

719
00:48:01.142 --> 00:48:04.930
course also what we're going to
be testing in the evaluation.

720
00:48:06.210 --> 00:48:10.508
I'm personally very interested
in the idea of centralized

721
00:48:10.508 --> 00:48:14.510
purchasing or states shifting
towards grant programs.

722
00:48:16.050 --> 00:48:19.495
Having worked in other
industries where there are

723
00:48:19.495 --> 00:48:23.904
formula grants that go out the
door, this is a this tends to be

724
00:48:23.904 --> 00:48:28.038
a pretty centralized system
where money can move relatively

725
00:48:28.038 --> 00:48:28.589
quickly.

726
00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:31.130
Um and.

727
00:48:32.250 --> 00:48:35.789
That might not show up in an
example of like HHS or

728
00:48:35.789 --> 00:48:39.941
Department of Bed where there
might be more complicated ways

729
00:48:39.941 --> 00:48:42.120
that the funding is distributed.

730
00:48:43.310 --> 00:48:46.313
So I'm I'm going to be really
interested to see how that one

731
00:48:46.313 --> 00:48:47.150
comes out for us.

732
00:48:48.030 --> 00:48:51.163
And we also know that the
museums have been really

733
00:48:51.163 --> 00:48:54.910
interested to hear how well
these efficient, how efficiently

734
00:48:54.910 --> 00:48:58.719
these funds went out the door
from their perspective, wanting

735
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:02.651
to know what the opportunities
would look like in the future on

736
00:49:02.651 --> 00:49:04.740
the other side of the IMLS
House.

737
00:49:06.300 --> 00:49:06.880
So.

738
00:49:08.520 --> 00:49:09.280
With that.

739
00:49:09.910 --> 00:49:13.485
We're going to turn it over to
discussion. We have two

740
00:49:13.485 --> 00:49:17.190
different table discussion
questions that we're going to

741
00:49:17.190 --> 00:49:17.450
ask.

742
00:49:18.310 --> 00:49:20.000
And the first is.

743
00:49:21.640 --> 00:49:22.980
We don't want to know.

744
00:49:23.790 --> 00:49:25.410
What you want to know?

745
00:49:26.180 --> 00:49:29.590
We want to know. We want you to
think of yourself as an

746
00:49:29.590 --> 00:49:30.200
evaluator.

747
00:49:30.860 --> 00:49:34.237
So you just got done with your
five year evaluations. You

748
00:49:34.237 --> 00:49:37.965
worked closely with evaluators.
They were asking you questions.

749
00:49:37.965 --> 00:49:41.459
They were asking for data. They
were asking you to remember

750
00:49:41.459 --> 00:49:45.070
things from before the pandemic
that none of us can remember.

751
00:49:46.970 --> 00:49:53.280
And so if you were evaluating
this program, what would you?

752
00:49:54.550 --> 00:49:58.696
What would you like need to be
looking for? What is it that you

753
00:49:58.696 --> 00:50:00.770
as a data collection specialist?

754
00:50:01.450 --> 00:50:05.769
Would be looking for. So there's
definitely going to be some like

755
00:50:05.769 --> 00:50:09.696
full evaluators need to know
that we did X, evaluators need

756
00:50:09.696 --> 00:50:13.688
to know that we did Y. That's
going to show up for sure, but

757
00:50:13.688 --> 00:50:17.026
do evaluators need to be
interviewing every single

758
00:50:17.026 --> 00:50:17.550
library?

759
00:50:18.610 --> 00:50:23.443
Do evaluators need to be
surveying state level staff

760
00:50:23.443 --> 00:50:29.190
only? What would you be asking
of states in terms of function?

761
00:50:29.990 --> 00:50:34.049
Like, where do you want them to
really target their energy? We

762
00:50:34.049 --> 00:50:37.851
have limited dollars, you know,
good evaluate every single

763
00:50:37.851 --> 00:50:41.846
thing. And you don't want them
to evaluate every single thing

764
00:50:41.846 --> 00:50:46.099
just because you would. It would
never end. So what would you ask

765
00:50:46.099 --> 00:50:48.870
of of yourselves if you were an
evaluator?

766
00:50:50.070 --> 00:50:52.020
Well, we what do you think you'd
look for in the data?

767
00:50:52.690 --> 00:50:56.580
What would be really compelling
for trend analysis?

768
00:50:58.100 --> 00:51:01.347
And what topics or activities
would be important to focus on

769
00:51:01.347 --> 00:51:04.594
in a research plan? And maybe
you feel like we've identified

770
00:51:04.594 --> 00:51:07.682
those already. Maybe the answer
is what you put up on the

771
00:51:07.682 --> 00:51:10.344
slides. But I have a feeling
from your, from your

772
00:51:10.344 --> 00:51:13.591
perspective, there's probably
some things out there that you

773
00:51:13.591 --> 00:51:16.945
would want to make sure that if
we are putting money behind an

774
00:51:16.945 --> 00:51:20.352
evaluator, going out into your
communities, going out into your

775
00:51:20.352 --> 00:51:23.759
state, coming to you and asking
for information, you would want

776
00:51:23.759 --> 00:51:25.249
to make sure we got covered.

777
00:51:26.620 --> 00:51:30.816
So we're going to spend about 10
minutes just talking to tables.

778
00:51:30.816 --> 00:51:34.883
If it seems to wind down before
then, we'll do the report out.

779
00:51:34.883 --> 00:51:38.821
Again, don't overthink this.
This isn't. You weren't getting

780
00:51:38.821 --> 00:51:42.695
graded. We weren't getting
tested. This is just really like

781
00:51:42.695 --> 00:51:46.504
think. Think like a researcher.
If you're researching what

782
00:51:46.504 --> 00:51:50.442
happened during the cares and
ARPA with the cares and Murphy

783
00:51:50.442 --> 00:51:54.510
stimulus funds, what is it that
that you should be looking at?

784
00:51:55.870 --> 00:51:56.490
Sound good?

785
00:51:57.710 --> 00:51:58.180
OK.

786
00:51:59.040 --> 00:52:02.680
Go to it, I will find you in
about 10 minutes.

787
00:52:05.120 --> 00:52:08.750
OK. Which one of you gets the
mic? All right. OK.

788
00:52:10.310 --> 00:52:13.260
We do our round Robin, so I'm
going to go.

789
00:52:14.020 --> 00:52:17.696
That direction to the virtual
people and then come back down

790
00:52:17.696 --> 00:52:20.830
this way just so you know where
I'm going next. So.

791
00:52:24.230 --> 00:52:28.294
Start over wherever, OK, at our
table when we were things that

792
00:52:28.294 --> 00:52:32.359
we would be interested to look
at from other states of was the

793
00:52:32.359 --> 00:52:36.166
number of states that really
focused on whether funds were

794
00:52:36.166 --> 00:52:40.037
going to direct service or
looking into the language of the

795
00:52:40.037 --> 00:52:43.585
surveys themselves and seeing
how many had very direct

796
00:52:43.585 --> 00:52:47.392
actionable goals. Where it said
we are going to distribute

797
00:52:47.392 --> 00:52:51.198
hotspots or we are going to do
XYZ as opposed to what some

798
00:52:51.198 --> 00:52:53.070
states did, I'm not pointing.

799
00:52:53.140 --> 00:52:57.282
Angry at our state, but our
state would be a great example

800
00:52:57.282 --> 00:52:59.740
where you see a lot of very
vague.

801
00:53:01.040 --> 00:53:04.453
Goals that have big keywords and
big concepts and that's not a

802
00:53:04.453 --> 00:53:07.378
bad thing. But we do that so
that we can kind of cram

803
00:53:07.378 --> 00:53:10.791
projects in there as we think
about them or if we need to. But

804
00:53:10.791 --> 00:53:14.259
it's much harder to go in after
the fact and say, hey look, you

805
00:53:14.259 --> 00:53:17.618
want to see what we're doing
with this money. This is exactly

806
00:53:17.618 --> 00:53:20.923
how it's going. So to look at
the the surveys and see really

807
00:53:20.923 --> 00:53:22.440
what ones what stand up. Hi.

808
00:53:23.950 --> 00:53:27.095
That was done. So we would be
really interested to see what

809
00:53:27.095 --> 00:53:30.292
states had those actionable
goals at a higher level and what

810
00:53:30.292 --> 00:53:33.542
states were making that move.
And then the other thing we had

811
00:53:33.542 --> 00:53:36.320
noticed is we would be
interested in seeing how many

812
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.570
states made a noticeable shift
in their goals. Because I know

813
00:53:39.570 --> 00:53:42.820
when we talked about this in
Baltimore last year, a number of

814
00:53:42.820 --> 00:53:46.070
us said that, hey, this was not
a great time for us to tackle

815
00:53:46.070 --> 00:53:49.215
this. So we were doing cut and
paste with the years and you

816
00:53:49.215 --> 00:53:52.202
know, changing them from
document to document and really

817
00:53:52.202 --> 00:53:55.400
not making as big a shift as we
might want to. So to go into

818
00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:55.609
the.

819
00:53:55.680 --> 00:53:58.472
Wait and say what ones were able
to pull that off, and where did

820
00:53:58.472 --> 00:53:59.460
they shift their focus?

821
00:54:01.130 --> 00:54:03.650
Thank you. All right.

822
00:54:06.050 --> 00:54:10.324
So we talked about potentially
looking at, sorry, I guess I

823
00:54:10.324 --> 00:54:14.742
could address the room and not
you directly family looking at

824
00:54:14.742 --> 00:54:19.088
the cost like per person served
across the different kind of

825
00:54:19.088 --> 00:54:23.220
broad subject areas. So you know
it was an early literacy

826
00:54:23.220 --> 00:54:27.352
project. How much does like how
many people does $1000 or

827
00:54:27.352 --> 00:54:31.556
$100,000 can it get get you so
that you can compare across

828
00:54:31.556 --> 00:54:35.189
things. We also talked about
sampling potentially.

829
00:54:35.530 --> 00:54:38.975
The direct recipients of the
services or whatever. So the

830
00:54:38.975 --> 00:54:42.421
libraries themselves or perhaps
even users of the library

831
00:54:42.421 --> 00:54:46.104
programs acknowledging that that
would be very difficult, but

832
00:54:46.104 --> 00:54:49.549
that potentially that's where
some of the most meaningful

833
00:54:49.549 --> 00:54:53.470
stories and information lie. And
then something I'm interested in

834
00:54:53.470 --> 00:54:57.034
that I think is probably outside
the scope of this, of this

835
00:54:57.034 --> 00:54:58.520
evaluation is to compare.

836
00:54:59.770 --> 00:55:03.183
Libraries to like sort of the
distribution of ARPA funds

837
00:55:03.183 --> 00:55:06.655
through municipalities and
states because we were able to

838
00:55:06.655 --> 00:55:10.128
move things so quickly and I
think make a big impact. How

839
00:55:10.128 --> 00:55:13.721
does that compare to say, a
municipality where like they've

840
00:55:13.721 --> 00:55:17.194
only sent 10% of their ARPA
funds? I don't know what that

841
00:55:17.194 --> 00:55:20.906
would look like, but I think
that that could be potentially a

842
00:55:20.906 --> 00:55:24.259
powerful tool for us in
advocating for library funding.

843
00:55:25.900 --> 00:55:27.010
Great. Thank you.

844
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:32.989
And I don't want to share that I
have any bias, but I feel like

845
00:55:32.989 --> 00:55:36.264
we moved funds pretty
efficiently. OK, who at this

846
00:55:36.264 --> 00:55:36.650
table?

847
00:55:39.390 --> 00:55:44.110
OK, so we started up by saying
we wanted to get bang for Buck's

848
00:55:44.110 --> 00:55:47.060
analysis, but how do you do that
right?

849
00:55:48.560 --> 00:55:52.745
So talking amongst us with four,
just four states, we found out

850
00:55:52.745 --> 00:55:56.931
that it's completely different
in what we were actually allowed

851
00:55:56.931 --> 00:56:00.855
to do with our funding. And
that's very problematic because

852
00:56:00.855 --> 00:56:04.649
our hands are tied in many
different ways with contracts,

853
00:56:04.649 --> 00:56:07.200
with state laws, with local
interests.

854
00:56:07.970 --> 00:56:12.148
And then we also said it would
be interesting to try to have an

855
00:56:12.148 --> 00:56:14.760
analysis that could actually
attribute.

856
00:56:15.650 --> 00:56:19.340
The outcomes to what we are able
to do because we're not

857
00:56:19.340 --> 00:56:23.225
operating in isolation and there
are many other things that

858
00:56:23.225 --> 00:56:27.433
influence what the outcomes are.
So it that's always a very hard

859
00:56:27.433 --> 00:56:31.382
thing. We know that we're an
influential part of it, but how

860
00:56:31.382 --> 00:56:34.620
what percentage can we say is
actually due to us.

861
00:56:42.620 --> 00:56:43.780
So at our table.

862
00:56:44.820 --> 00:56:48.677
Oh, I have to stand up. OK.
Sorry. I'm merrilee, by the way.

863
00:56:48.677 --> 00:56:52.598
I'm from Utah. So at our table,
we kind of talked about a few

864
00:56:52.598 --> 00:56:56.709
things. We kind of went through
each question. And the the first

865
00:56:56.709 --> 00:57:00.693
part that we thought would be
important would be to talk about

866
00:57:00.693 --> 00:57:04.488
what were the goals and the
intentions. And then the second

867
00:57:04.488 --> 00:57:07.777
part, were those goals and
intentions met? And then

868
00:57:07.777 --> 00:57:11.634
finally, why was meeting those
goals significant and kind of

869
00:57:11.634 --> 00:57:15.049
talking about like the context
of what was happening?

870
00:57:15.120 --> 00:57:19.025
At the time, because we talked a
little bit about, you know, we

871
00:57:19.025 --> 00:57:22.748
did spend money on books and
well, why was that significant?

872
00:57:22.748 --> 00:57:26.410
Because there was this huge
demand for online material when

873
00:57:26.410 --> 00:57:30.377
everything was closed down. And
so just being able to to put all

874
00:57:30.377 --> 00:57:34.344
that information in a way where
it makes sense about the how the

875
00:57:34.344 --> 00:57:37.639
intention and how those goals
were met and why it was

876
00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:41.118
significant. Sorry, I'm
repeating myself. Thanks. That's

877
00:57:41.118 --> 00:57:41.789
all I have.

878
00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:45.550
That was great. Thank you.
Right. Who over here?

879
00:57:48.020 --> 00:57:52.072
OK, sorry, a lot of our stuff we
discussed, you know, stakeholder

880
00:57:52.072 --> 00:57:56.002
interviews because a lot of ours
came down to things that would

881
00:57:56.002 --> 00:57:59.931
be best discovered that way. The
the first thing we just talked

882
00:57:59.931 --> 00:58:03.492
about was how did this address,
how did everything we did

883
00:58:03.492 --> 00:58:06.992
address the needs of the
pandemic because otherwise it's

884
00:58:06.992 --> 00:58:10.676
like, well, why did you just
throw all this money out there

885
00:58:10.676 --> 00:58:12.580
since it was pandemic response.

886
00:58:13.220 --> 00:58:16.977
One of the interesting things we
said, why didn't you know asking

887
00:58:16.977 --> 00:58:20.278
the libraries, what did they
hope this money would do for

888
00:58:20.278 --> 00:58:23.921
them that it didn't actually do
for them, you know, and are the

889
00:58:23.921 --> 00:58:27.394
items, you know, the items the
programs that were initiated,

890
00:58:27.394 --> 00:58:30.866
are they still being used is
their lasting impact? You know,

891
00:58:30.866 --> 00:58:34.282
there is some things where
there's services that came about

892
00:58:34.282 --> 00:58:37.470
through necessity that now
people expect that curbside.

893
00:58:39.170 --> 00:58:43.385
Then as the pandemic lanes you
know what's no longer needed,

894
00:58:43.385 --> 00:58:47.048
what can be set aside and and
also we had sort of an

895
00:58:47.048 --> 00:58:50.781
unintentional expansion of
government was I think how

896
00:58:50.781 --> 00:58:55.066
somebody put it at our table.
You know how is this will these

897
00:58:55.066 --> 00:58:59.420
creative programs be sustainable
and how are they going to pay

898
00:58:59.420 --> 00:59:03.774
for them. You know is this going
to shift on to the the states

899
00:59:03.774 --> 00:59:08.266
the counties, the the local. So
how you know where is this money

900
00:59:08.266 --> 00:59:09.580
going to come from?

901
00:59:09.650 --> 00:59:12.450
If this is going to be
sustained, so it's all kind of.

902
00:59:13.110 --> 00:59:16.120
You know, is there a lasting
impact and how do we keep it up?

903
00:59:19.900 --> 00:59:24.066
I appreciate the sneak preview
of the next group exercise that

904
00:59:24.066 --> 00:59:27.837
we have coming on. All right,
let's hear from our online

905
00:59:27.837 --> 00:59:28.299
people.

906
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:34.471
So a couple of things. There's
more than four or five people

907
00:59:34.471 --> 00:59:37.830
online and so it's more like 22.
So this is a longer list.

908
00:59:39.340 --> 00:59:42.848
We I'm not gonna say that things
because we've already seen

909
00:59:42.848 --> 00:59:46.240
repeat topics already. So I'm
not going to repeat myself.

910
00:59:48.180 --> 00:59:51.815
And I actually have to use it
for my because I have 3 pages to

911
00:59:51.815 --> 00:59:52.450
work at so.

912
00:59:56.760 --> 01:00:00.943
Folks are interested in trends
formula versus competitive

913
01:00:00.943 --> 01:00:05.343
grants, impacts of supply chain,
short term versus long term

914
01:00:05.343 --> 01:00:09.454
needs, LS, LSA, purchasing on
behalf of libraries versus

915
01:00:09.454 --> 01:00:13.854
SUBGRANTS. Did people feel safer
using library services as a

916
01:00:13.854 --> 01:00:16.740
result of the cares or ARPA
activities?

917
01:00:19.220 --> 01:00:23.634
ROI could digital projects be
funded with E rate instead of

918
01:00:23.634 --> 01:00:24.370
LTA funds?

919
01:00:26.890 --> 01:00:30.430
Capture the flux of how
libraries were responding to all

920
01:00:30.430 --> 01:00:32.170
the pandemic related issues.

921
01:00:33.080 --> 01:00:34.160
Were there negatives?

922
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:37.451
Schools think the e-books were
so successful during the

923
01:00:37.451 --> 01:00:40.245
pandemic, they're rethinking
their collection policies for

924
01:00:40.245 --> 01:00:40.529
print.

925
01:00:42.010 --> 01:00:44.680
They would like an illustration
of how invaluable libraries

926
01:00:44.680 --> 01:00:47.040
actually were during the
pandemic and what they did.

927
01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:52.350
How would SLA's and Subgrantees
use funds differently?

928
01:00:53.330 --> 01:00:58.022
That would be interesting impact
impact of building closures? Did

929
01:00:58.022 --> 01:01:01.080
virtual services reach the
intended users?

930
01:01:01.890 --> 01:01:03.030
Sustainability.

931
01:01:05.230 --> 01:01:09.294
Spending on dispensable,
dispensable items. How much

932
01:01:09.294 --> 01:01:13.820
what? And then they were thrown
away. That was brought up.

933
01:01:15.130 --> 01:01:17.850
Maintaining hybrid programming,
is it worth it?

934
01:01:19.030 --> 01:01:21.840
Higher demand for subgrants
across the board.

935
01:01:23.090 --> 01:01:24.940
People are coming out of the
woodwork for more money.

936
01:01:28.280 --> 01:01:32.664
Comparisons on populations
affected pre, during, and post

937
01:01:32.664 --> 01:01:34.630
epidemic breakdown by age.

938
01:01:35.640 --> 01:01:36.250
One more page.

939
01:01:40.090 --> 01:01:43.440
Our library is more aware of MLS
and LSA.

940
01:01:45.120 --> 01:01:49.446
I hope so. Did libraries not
want pandemic or not seek out

941
01:01:49.446 --> 01:01:54.140
pandemic funding due to whoops
as far as applying or reporting?

942
01:01:55.240 --> 01:01:55.730
You're welcome.

943
01:01:56.830 --> 01:01:57.710
No.

944
01:01:59.320 --> 01:02:03.040
Both done online? Yeah.
Impressive. OK, who at this

945
01:02:03.040 --> 01:02:03.470
table?

946
01:02:05.090 --> 01:02:09.226
All right. So our first question
would be what was the lessons

947
01:02:09.226 --> 01:02:13.035
learned? Because when we get
more money next time than we

948
01:02:13.035 --> 01:02:17.237
know how to move forward. Also
success stories, if something is

949
01:02:17.237 --> 01:02:21.045
replicable and scalable,
reproducible or toolkit, because

950
01:02:21.045 --> 01:02:25.248
y'all are doing different things
than we're doing and sometimes

951
01:02:25.248 --> 01:02:29.385
we would, we can learn from each
other and so they haven't all

952
01:02:29.385 --> 01:02:32.865
figure it out on our own
separately. So not just the

953
01:02:32.865 --> 01:02:35.820
qualitative questions, but the
quantitative.

954
01:02:35.910 --> 01:02:39.259
Both of them. Sometimes we get
fixated on the numbers and not

955
01:02:39.259 --> 01:02:42.716
the rest of the story. We'd want
to ask that. We'd also want to

956
01:02:42.716 --> 01:02:46.066
ask if things from the pandemic
have changed what we're still

957
01:02:46.066 --> 01:02:49.253
doing. I think someone else
already mentioned that online.

958
01:02:49.253 --> 01:02:50.550
So we got it. Thank you.

959
01:02:57.020 --> 01:03:00.141
We talked about a couple
different things. We talked

960
01:03:00.141 --> 01:03:03.734
about trends, but we figured if
you're coming into this, you

961
01:03:03.734 --> 01:03:06.619
probably have some
preconceptions, some more. If

962
01:03:06.619 --> 01:03:10.389
they like, oh, well, this didn't
happen here and I expected it.

963
01:03:10.389 --> 01:03:13.981
Or like, why was this thing so
popular? We also were talking

964
01:03:13.981 --> 01:03:17.515
about getting stories from
people. A lot of times it's very

965
01:03:17.515 --> 01:03:18.870
it's easier to get the.

966
01:03:19.660 --> 01:03:22.765
The number data, then the story
data. So kind of digging in

967
01:03:22.765 --> 01:03:26.077
particularly with end users and
getting their stories. And then

968
01:03:26.077 --> 01:03:29.389
the other thing we think that we
would probably want to look at

969
01:03:29.389 --> 01:03:32.753
is kind of state comparisons and
commonalities like this seem to

970
01:03:32.753 --> 01:03:35.703
come up in a lot of rural
environments or looking at the

971
01:03:35.703 --> 01:03:38.808
differences between where all
resource very differently. So

972
01:03:38.808 --> 01:03:41.965
oh, that state had a lot of
success. Well, that state didn't

973
01:03:41.965 --> 01:03:45.277
have, you know, six people each
doing 20 things, so they're not

974
01:03:45.277 --> 01:03:48.383
pulled in a bunch of different
directions. So kind of being

975
01:03:48.383 --> 01:03:49.469
able to see that and.

976
01:03:50.150 --> 01:03:52.720
Use that data to help with
future funding.

977
01:03:56.480 --> 01:04:00.774
We came up with several things
and a couple of them have

978
01:04:00.774 --> 01:04:05.521
already been discussed like how
is it sustainable? How is your

979
01:04:05.521 --> 01:04:08.986
state funding a problem?
Hindrance because of

980
01:04:08.986 --> 01:04:13.733
authorization? Appropriation?
Legislature has to be in session

981
01:04:13.733 --> 01:04:18.479
that shortens the time you have
to use your use the funds and.

982
01:04:19.450 --> 01:04:24.213
How did you measure success? How
did how do you, why do you call

983
01:04:24.213 --> 01:04:28.756
what you did a success? How do
you measure that? And also how

984
01:04:28.756 --> 01:04:32.787
can outcomes be easily
measurable at the local library

985
01:04:32.787 --> 01:04:36.671
level? And look at any
evaluation data if available,

986
01:04:36.671 --> 01:04:41.141
especially hard data like if you
purchase vehicles, how many

987
01:04:41.141 --> 01:04:45.977
miles were driven, you know, how
your services have impacted more

988
01:04:45.977 --> 01:04:47.809
people, things like that.

989
01:04:51.380 --> 01:04:55.110
Great, you all are making my
evaluator heart so happy.

990
01:04:59.670 --> 01:05:03.220
OK. So what we discussed I think
was maybe.

991
01:05:04.250 --> 01:05:08.524
We were looking in, especially
if you do the subgrants

992
01:05:08.524 --> 01:05:13.343
themselves, just a broad survey
of the sub grantees as to how

993
01:05:13.343 --> 01:05:18.161
that money was spent. We also
talked about, I mentioned how I

994
01:05:18.161 --> 01:05:22.202
thought it, I'm sorry, I
mentioned how I thought it

995
01:05:22.202 --> 01:05:26.632
should be more from like a
pandemic itself standpoint to

996
01:05:26.632 --> 01:05:30.829
differentiate it from the
current like evaluation and

997
01:05:30.829 --> 01:05:34.559
stuff you're doing. How did
these funds affect?

998
01:05:34.860 --> 01:05:38.809
The pandemic parts off of it.
And then just mainly I thought

999
01:05:38.809 --> 01:05:42.888
some questions about you know if
we did it this way what could

1000
01:05:42.888 --> 01:05:46.837
you have done differently from
an SLA standpoint like if you

1001
01:05:46.837 --> 01:05:50.851
had this funding if you get it
again, what would be you learn

1002
01:05:50.851 --> 01:05:55.060
from it that maybe you wouldn't
have done it that way this time?

1003
01:05:58.540 --> 01:05:59.550
Thank you.

1004
01:06:01.010 --> 01:06:01.860
The stable.

1005
01:06:06.860 --> 01:06:10.499
What were last, so I get to say
what everybody else said, so

1006
01:06:10.499 --> 01:06:14.139
thanks. No, I I guess I want to
reinforce one thing that our

1007
01:06:14.139 --> 01:06:18.078
table talked about is that short
term, long term challenge, short

1008
01:06:18.078 --> 01:06:21.896
term easily tangible things you
can buy, you can count, you can

1009
01:06:21.896 --> 01:06:25.835
show though there is a challenge
with some of that. So how to ask

1010
01:06:25.835 --> 01:06:29.713
for more context, especially for
those smaller expenditures from

1011
01:06:29.713 --> 01:06:33.234
smaller libraries that are
understaffed who might not have

1012
01:06:33.234 --> 01:06:34.010
been able to?

1013
01:06:34.110 --> 01:06:37.995
Track some things for you, but
then that longer term approach,

1014
01:06:37.995 --> 01:06:41.572
I know in Wisconsin we took that
approach for longer term

1015
01:06:41.572 --> 01:06:45.458
structural improvement. So some
questions might be how was the

1016
01:06:45.458 --> 01:06:49.282
library library ecosystem in
your state more future resilient

1017
01:06:49.282 --> 01:06:52.921
to support community needs in a
future credit crisis? What

1018
01:06:52.921 --> 01:06:56.745
collaborations or partnerships
were developed that might have

1019
01:06:56.745 --> 01:07:00.754
increased capacity for services
and resources and were there any

1020
01:07:00.754 --> 01:07:03.900
things that you did with
fungible impact so we're.

1021
01:07:04.110 --> 01:07:06.717
We did a database inventory
because there's lots of

1022
01:07:06.717 --> 01:07:09.776
databases being purchased by
individual libraries throughout

1023
01:07:09.776 --> 01:07:12.484
the state. Nobody knew what
anybody was buying. We're

1024
01:07:12.484 --> 01:07:15.593
finding things that are spread
covering 80% of our population

1025
01:07:15.593 --> 01:07:18.602
that are being purchased, you
know, 100 different purchases

1026
01:07:18.602 --> 01:07:21.511
where we might be able to do
cooperative purchasing, save

1027
01:07:21.511 --> 01:07:24.620
local money so they can address
the staffing issues, which is

1028
01:07:24.620 --> 01:07:27.729
really a huge thing we're seeing
as an impact out of this. So

1029
01:07:27.729 --> 01:07:30.988
what are some of those fungible
impacts we also might be able to

1030
01:07:30.988 --> 01:07:31.389
measure?

1031
01:07:34.180 --> 01:07:35.390
Great job everybody.

1032
01:07:37.240 --> 01:07:39.943
Surprise, you were all just
being interviewed for the

1033
01:07:39.943 --> 01:07:43.148
evaluator position. You're all
hired. If you can do this, we'll

1034
01:07:43.148 --> 01:07:44.150
just have you do it.

1035
01:07:45.940 --> 01:07:48.776
That's really great, actually.
You know, I've, I've been

1036
01:07:48.776 --> 01:07:51.812
working on starting to address
the scope of work for about a

1037
01:07:51.812 --> 01:07:54.898
week now and Terry and I and the
greats whole grains of state

1038
01:07:54.898 --> 01:07:58.034
team have been brainstorming.
What is it that we want to learn

1039
01:07:58.034 --> 01:08:01.119
from the data? What can we get
back to you that's going to be

1040
01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:04.006
useful? How can we make this
evaluation successful? And I

1041
01:08:04.006 --> 01:08:07.191
know that was a quick round of
what could we possibly think of,

1042
01:08:07.191 --> 01:08:10.227
but there were ideas in there
that I hadn't even that hadn't

1043
01:08:10.227 --> 01:08:13.313
even occurred to me. And that's
going to really help us shape

1044
01:08:13.313 --> 01:08:16.250
something that's going to
reflect data that's interesting.

1045
01:08:16.320 --> 01:08:20.898
To you and you know, more data
that's interesting to us. So as

1046
01:08:20.898 --> 01:08:23.660
the data lady, I loved that
exercise.

1047
01:08:25.110 --> 01:08:25.560
OK.

1048
01:08:26.390 --> 01:08:29.546
The second table discussion,
we're going to do a little bit

1049
01:08:29.546 --> 01:08:32.649
faster. We're going to do 5
minutes of discussion and then

1050
01:08:32.649 --> 01:08:35.806
we'll do the round Robin report
out and we'll start in this

1051
01:08:35.806 --> 01:08:37.700
corner of the room and go that
way.

1052
01:08:39.380 --> 01:08:42.998
And some of you already started
to answer the questions here.

1053
01:08:42.998 --> 01:08:46.733
What programs, stimulus funded
programs, did you decide to keep

1054
01:08:46.733 --> 01:08:50.469
permanent and or this could also
be operations. So you know did

1055
01:08:50.469 --> 01:08:53.854
you do some grants that you
hadn't done before and you're

1056
01:08:53.854 --> 01:08:57.064
going to continue to do that.
Did you create an X type

1057
01:08:57.064 --> 01:09:00.741
position that you're going to
keep and what did you stop doing

1058
01:09:00.741 --> 01:09:04.593
as a result of the pandemic that
you are not going to go back to.

1059
01:09:04.593 --> 01:09:08.270
So this isn't what can we stop
doing now that the pandemic is?

1060
01:09:09.330 --> 01:09:13.956
We're on the other end of it.
What did you stop doing because

1061
01:09:13.956 --> 01:09:17.836
of the pandemic that in
retrospect, you're deciding

1062
01:09:17.836 --> 01:09:20.150
you're not going to go back to?

1063
01:09:22.280 --> 01:09:26.623
OK. So I'm giving you 5 minutes
for this one and then I will

1064
01:09:26.623 --> 01:09:31.251
find you again and we'll do our
report out. OK, Jeff is going to

1065
01:09:31.251 --> 01:09:32.320
get us started.

1066
01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:37.840
So we can wrap it up. All right,
here we go.

1067
01:09:44.590 --> 01:09:49.005
Yeah, we had a few things that
we that our table that we're

1068
01:09:49.005 --> 01:09:53.493
going to keep going through the
process. One is the hot spot

1069
01:09:53.493 --> 01:09:57.688
program turned out to be very
popular with people and we

1070
01:09:57.688 --> 01:10:02.471
expect that that's going to keep
going. We also had meeting room

1071
01:10:02.471 --> 01:10:07.107
spaces that were outfitted for
virtual meetings and and remote

1072
01:10:07.107 --> 01:10:08.800
work if we expect that.

1073
01:10:08.870 --> 01:10:12.680
That's going to be a thing
that's going to move forward as

1074
01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:16.554
well. There was also somebody
had mentioned that one of the

1075
01:10:16.554 --> 01:10:19.590
components of some of the grant
programs were.

1076
01:10:20.260 --> 01:10:21.170
The.

1077
01:10:22.740 --> 01:10:25.878
Applicants would have to attend
mandatory in person trainings

1078
01:10:25.878 --> 01:10:29.016
and we dropped those during the
pandemic and we don't see any

1079
01:10:29.016 --> 01:10:30.940
compelling reason to go back to
that.

1080
01:10:31.960 --> 01:10:36.131
And also obviously remote work,
I think that's the thing that

1081
01:10:36.131 --> 01:10:40.370
that will probably stay with us
throughout the moving forward.

1082
01:10:42.380 --> 01:10:44.680
Did you have anything you
stopped doing before the

1083
01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:46.440
pandemic? Did you make it to
that one?

1084
01:10:53.340 --> 01:10:57.661
I did, I think, I think it was
just mostly that we stopped

1085
01:10:57.661 --> 01:11:01.983
requiring people to have in
phase meetings and or required

1086
01:11:01.983 --> 01:11:06.305
to do stuff in person that we
were able to open up to this

1087
01:11:06.305 --> 01:11:08.210
more broad Internet based.

1088
01:11:09.180 --> 01:11:10.870
Worldly library stuff.

1089
01:11:12.540 --> 01:11:13.730
Good technical term.

1090
01:11:15.120 --> 01:11:15.990
Who at this table?

1091
01:11:19.570 --> 01:11:24.057
So all of our ARPA and CARES Act
money was sub granted. So we

1092
01:11:24.057 --> 01:11:28.327
didn't really as a state library
agency didn't act any new

1093
01:11:28.327 --> 01:11:32.597
programs that we're going to
keep permanent or hire people

1094
01:11:32.597 --> 01:11:37.157
who we would keep permanently.
However, Utah hired a part-time

1095
01:11:37.157 --> 01:11:41.427
person to help out with Cares
Act ARPA and they think that

1096
01:11:41.427 --> 01:11:46.059
part time person is now going to
be permanent. So there's that.

1097
01:11:48.370 --> 01:11:51.890
And what did we stop doing as a
result of the pandemic that you

1098
01:11:51.890 --> 01:11:55.520
want returned to? And that's the
the office. Basically, we're not

1099
01:11:55.520 --> 01:11:58.050
in the office five days a week.
There's that.

1100
01:12:04.220 --> 01:12:09.291
OK. So across the board here, we
have stopped depending upon

1101
01:12:09.291 --> 01:12:09.790
paper.

1102
01:12:11.900 --> 01:12:15.349
We're using teams and online
versions and making sure that

1103
01:12:15.349 --> 01:12:18.682
there's a virtual option,
whereas before if you couldn't

1104
01:12:18.682 --> 01:12:21.430
participate in person, you
didn't participate.

1105
01:12:22.340 --> 01:12:26.218
And it's enabled a new office
culture that has included

1106
01:12:26.218 --> 01:12:30.443
restructuring, and we all feel
like we're more versatile and

1107
01:12:30.443 --> 01:12:31.690
able to do things.

1108
01:12:35.330 --> 01:12:38.289
I think, I think there are
probably 20 plus virtual

1109
01:12:38.289 --> 01:12:41.134
attendees who appreciate the
inclusion of virtual

1110
01:12:41.134 --> 01:12:43.240
opportunities for meetings who
here?

1111
01:12:45.890 --> 01:12:50.567
We talked about several similar
things, processes going digital,

1112
01:12:50.567 --> 01:12:55.028
so no longer requiring paper
applications or paper contracts,

1113
01:12:55.028 --> 01:12:59.490
doing everything digitally now.
And also online zoom meetings

1114
01:12:59.490 --> 01:13:03.520
for trainings, for cohort
meetings for grantees and the

1115
01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:08.053
monthly check INS that a lot of
our library development people

1116
01:13:08.053 --> 01:13:12.083
do. That's all gone to zoom and
it really makes it more

1117
01:13:12.083 --> 01:13:14.169
accessible and a lot cheaper.

1118
01:13:15.490 --> 01:13:19.861
We also at our library, we hired
a bicultural bilingual library

1119
01:13:19.861 --> 01:13:23.822
development coordinator and that
position was ARPA funded

1120
01:13:23.822 --> 01:13:27.716
initially and that's been
converted to a full-time state

1121
01:13:27.716 --> 01:13:30.379
funded position which is really
great.

1122
01:13:32.360 --> 01:13:37.199
Another two states that did
subgrants with museums found

1123
01:13:37.199 --> 01:13:42.462
that maybe the program it was
challenging to find the fit and

1124
01:13:42.462 --> 01:13:47.387
so maybe not continuing that
with this particular funding

1125
01:13:47.387 --> 01:13:49.170
source going forward.

1126
01:13:51.120 --> 01:13:53.590
That's really interesting, this
museum partnership.

1127
01:13:56.180 --> 01:13:56.520
Stuff.

1128
01:13:58.060 --> 01:14:02.699
So definitely the reduction in
paper use of DocuSign now

1129
01:14:02.699 --> 01:14:07.826
instead of a lot of paper, as
well as the hiring and retention

1130
01:14:07.826 --> 01:14:13.035
of digital navigators in the in
their libraries to keep up that

1131
01:14:13.035 --> 01:14:17.674
initiative. And as well as
streamlining the audio e-book

1132
01:14:17.674 --> 01:14:22.883
and audiobook platforms across
the many libraries in the state.

1133
01:14:22.883 --> 01:14:24.430
That's another one.

1134
01:14:25.420 --> 01:14:28.770
And I don't think we did
anything that we stopped doing.

1135
01:14:33.950 --> 01:14:37.308
So in terms of things that we
decided to keep permanent, we

1136
01:14:37.308 --> 01:14:40.835
talked about a lot of digital
things like having zoom meetings

1137
01:14:40.835 --> 01:14:43.914
for directors or other staff
across the state to allow

1138
01:14:43.914 --> 01:14:47.608
everyone to participate, keeping
that one of us started doing sub

1139
01:14:47.608 --> 01:14:49.680
grants and that's going to
continue.

1140
01:14:50.940 --> 01:14:54.606
The program to purchase Kindles
to close the digital divide is

1141
01:14:54.606 --> 01:14:57.633
going to continue beyond
stimulus funds and digital

1142
01:14:57.633 --> 01:15:01.067
Navigator program in my state
that we have now moved on to

1143
01:15:01.067 --> 01:15:04.676
local funds, which is great. So
we're going to keep that. And

1144
01:15:04.676 --> 01:15:08.168
then the one thing that we
talked about that we had stopped

1145
01:15:08.168 --> 01:15:11.427
before the pan or at the
pandemic and has not come back

1146
01:15:11.427 --> 01:15:14.280
yet as a small summer grant
program in Michigan.

1147
01:15:18.440 --> 01:15:20.150
All right, coming over to this
table.

1148
01:15:24.330 --> 01:15:27.860
OK. We discussed a number of
things. So some things we

1149
01:15:27.860 --> 01:15:31.261
discussed keeping at our table
e-books certainly and

1150
01:15:31.261 --> 01:15:34.920
Mississippi we had a little
pilot project come out with.

1151
01:15:36.050 --> 01:15:39.825
For ebooks across the state
during the pandemic, and it was

1152
01:15:39.825 --> 01:15:43.474
a huge hit, so we're going to
keep that resource. We also

1153
01:15:43.474 --> 01:15:47.061
discussed I like you all,
keeping the option for virtual

1154
01:15:47.061 --> 01:15:50.270
programming or virtual meetings,
things like that.

1155
01:15:52.440 --> 01:15:57.110
As well as in Puerto Rico, they
had a reading project or reading

1156
01:15:57.110 --> 01:16:01.350
a program for youth in their
communities. They're going to

1157
01:16:01.350 --> 01:16:05.805
keep that. That's going to be
one thing they continue on with

1158
01:16:05.805 --> 01:16:10.116
and some things that we are not
keeping. We discussed maybe

1159
01:16:10.116 --> 01:16:14.859
phasing out the need for funding
PPE since the pandemic generally

1160
01:16:14.859 --> 01:16:17.590
is winding down as well as what
else?

1161
01:16:22.750 --> 01:16:26.381
Oh, and in Puerto Rico, one
thing that the library provided

1162
01:16:26.381 --> 01:16:30.194
was access to school databases,
or databases for those schools

1163
01:16:30.194 --> 01:16:34.008
and other supplies for students
to complete homework and other

1164
01:16:34.008 --> 01:16:37.821
educational tasks. They'll be
phasing that out as well, as the

1165
01:16:37.821 --> 01:16:39.939
schools have their own budget,
so.

1166
01:16:47.060 --> 01:16:51.070
Play again some of the things
that's keeping.

1167
01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:54.980
Several of us have done.

1168
01:16:55.950 --> 01:16:59.754
Weekly zoom meetings that are
now monthly zoom meetings with

1169
01:16:59.754 --> 01:17:03.496
directors of public libraries at
the State Library. We have

1170
01:17:03.496 --> 01:17:07.363
managers meetings within the
agency. And now that even though

1171
01:17:07.363 --> 01:17:10.919
everybody's back in the
building, we're still doing them

1172
01:17:10.919 --> 01:17:14.349
by zoom just because it's a
little, just a little more

1173
01:17:14.349 --> 01:17:17.717
convenient. And in Arkansas,
with the cares money, we

1174
01:17:17.717 --> 01:17:21.272
purchased the Learning Express
for a year and our parent

1175
01:17:21.272 --> 01:17:24.703
agency, the Department of
Education, is paying for the

1176
01:17:24.703 --> 01:17:26.199
next three years for us.

1177
01:17:26.370 --> 01:17:30.345
So we were able to leverage
those cares funds and we also

1178
01:17:30.345 --> 01:17:34.732
did the summer reading virtual
platform and we still have that,

1179
01:17:34.732 --> 01:17:38.914
but the number of participants
is dwindling. So I'm not sure

1180
01:17:38.914 --> 01:17:43.301
how long that will continue with
the ARPA funds. We use that to

1181
01:17:43.301 --> 01:17:46.179
set up a statewide virtual union
catalog.

1182
01:17:46.860 --> 01:17:51.988
And some of the things that are
no longer being done is the

1183
01:17:51.988 --> 01:17:57.202
hotspots and several of the
libraries started with the Cares

1184
01:17:57.202 --> 01:18:02.587
Act funding, the hotspots, they
continued the funding with the

1185
01:18:02.587 --> 01:18:07.715
ARPA, but now it's just not
sustainable with the LSA funds.

1186
01:18:07.715 --> 01:18:12.758
And at Arkansas we did sub
awards and we will not be doing

1187
01:18:12.758 --> 01:18:13.870
several wars.

1188
01:18:15.320 --> 01:18:19.748
Unless, of course, there's a big
pocket of money. Then what else

1189
01:18:19.748 --> 01:18:20.430
do you do?

1190
01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:23.300
Interesting. OK.

1191
01:18:24.550 --> 01:18:28.277
Some of the things we talked
about, people have brought up,

1192
01:18:28.277 --> 01:18:32.314
but similar things about some of
the digital products, you know,

1193
01:18:32.314 --> 01:18:35.979
databases that were really
popular like LinkedIn learning,

1194
01:18:35.979 --> 01:18:39.644
shifting funds around for that
early literacy spending was

1195
01:18:39.644 --> 01:18:43.495
another aspect that people are
keeping in terms of stuff that

1196
01:18:43.495 --> 01:18:47.284
we're not doing. Dial Story has
started up, not not going to

1197
01:18:47.284 --> 01:18:51.136
keep doing that. A couple of us
had done the reading tracking

1198
01:18:51.136 --> 01:18:54.676
software for libraries where
we're no longer going to be

1199
01:18:54.676 --> 01:18:55.360
doing that.

1200
01:18:55.480 --> 01:18:58.692
Um, again, we're not doing a
couple people not doing hotspot

1201
01:18:58.692 --> 01:19:01.800
programs anymore. And related to
the sub recipient aspect,

1202
01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:04.802
similarly states that haven't
done it before will not be

1203
01:19:04.802 --> 01:19:07.910
continuing it. In my case in
Massachusetts, we had done it

1204
01:19:07.910 --> 01:19:11.017
before. What I learned from
doing it is I'm not doing this

1205
01:19:11.017 --> 01:19:14.230
without a current management
system. So we're in the process

1206
01:19:14.230 --> 01:19:17.496
of doing that. So definitely for
those of you who are like, I

1207
01:19:17.496 --> 01:19:20.656
don't know how to do this, I
didn't know how to do it and I

1208
01:19:20.656 --> 01:19:23.289
was like I'm not doing this on
paper anymore, so.

1209
01:19:25.500 --> 01:19:28.195
That's a great lesson learned,
right? One more table and then

1210
01:19:28.195 --> 01:19:29.370
we have our virtual people.

1211
01:19:33.100 --> 01:19:37.118
Ours was pretty much everything
everybody else said, but there

1212
01:19:37.118 --> 01:19:41.072
was a couple extra things. One
of the things that we, some of

1213
01:19:41.072 --> 01:19:44.963
the people in our states are
continuing to do like a more of

1214
01:19:44.963 --> 01:19:48.981
a train, the trainer type stuff
and mentor and mentee programs

1215
01:19:48.981 --> 01:19:52.808
and obviously the ebooks and
virtual hybrid programming was

1216
01:19:52.808 --> 01:19:56.826
big. And one of the states no
longer allows pickups. They mail

1217
01:19:56.826 --> 01:20:00.590
everything even if they're close
by just because they got.

1218
01:20:00.660 --> 01:20:04.514
Used to mailing things during
the pandemic and what we've

1219
01:20:04.514 --> 01:20:08.235
stopped doing is in person
programming only. So there's

1220
01:20:08.235 --> 01:20:10.959
more of a hybrid approach and
that's it.

1221
01:20:12.670 --> 01:20:14.400
Cool. All right, online folks.

1222
01:20:18.240 --> 01:20:18.680
Hi.

1223
01:20:20.500 --> 01:20:23.855
I'm not going back to work 100%
or excuse me, not going back to

1224
01:20:23.855 --> 01:20:26.110
work. Most of these folks are
100% remote.

1225
01:20:27.510 --> 01:20:31.041
They are keeping accessible
youth collections. They're sort

1226
01:20:31.041 --> 01:20:34.750
of split about sub grants. Most
of them have offered them as a

1227
01:20:34.750 --> 01:20:38.400
result of the ARPA funds, but
some are keeping, some are not.

1228
01:20:39.620 --> 01:20:42.434
Some are keeping them, but
probably not at the same level

1229
01:20:42.434 --> 01:20:42.920
or amount.

1230
01:20:44.320 --> 01:20:46.724
They're keeping the People's Law
Library, which I'm very

1231
01:20:46.724 --> 01:20:47.400
intrigued about.

1232
01:20:49.030 --> 01:20:51.681
Keeping Subgrants and the
coordinator is now a permanent

1233
01:20:51.681 --> 01:20:52.100
position.

1234
01:20:54.100 --> 01:20:57.535
Stopped working with hotspots
due to the grant requirements

1235
01:20:57.535 --> 01:21:00.170
and libraries were not
maintaining the plans.

1236
01:21:01.050 --> 01:21:05.700
There's a teen internship
subaward that they're going to

1237
01:21:05.700 --> 01:21:10.595
maintain. Dropped TV white
space? Not understandable. I got

1238
01:21:10.595 --> 01:21:10.840
it.

1239
01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:15.410
I have a Grant's assistant. I
hope to keep her forever.

1240
01:21:17.260 --> 01:21:23.550
Stop PPE grants keep SP SRP
reader zone subscription.

1241
01:21:26.060 --> 01:21:28.090
Broadband is now part of our
five year plan.

1242
01:21:31.070 --> 01:21:34.026
We've offered grants during our
trip, but we want to continue.

1243
01:21:34.026 --> 01:21:36.890
Digital inclusion is a big thing
that they want to maintain.

1244
01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:42.566
Great job everybody. I know I
got everyone hyped up about

1245
01:21:42.566 --> 01:21:46.822
leaving for break early. We're
right at the top of the hour.

1246
01:21:46.822 --> 01:21:50.798
But to let you out with
inspiration on your brain are we

1247
01:21:50.798 --> 01:21:55.124
have a surprise guest speaker
who's just going to come up and

1248
01:21:55.124 --> 01:21:59.449
give you a couple of great pep
talks are man behind the money

1249
01:21:59.449 --> 01:22:03.844
CFO Chris Katanani. He's he's
the one that makes sure that the

1250
01:22:03.844 --> 01:22:08.100
lights stay on, the door stay
open you guys get your checks.

1251
01:22:08.100 --> 01:22:08.310
So.

1252
01:22:08.420 --> 01:22:11.508
Chris, did you want to come up
here and just say a few quick

1253
01:22:11.508 --> 01:22:13.280
things and then we'll go to
break?

1254
01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:27.147
Thank you. I hate the fact that
you put me in between a great

1255
01:22:27.147 --> 01:22:31.470
session and the break, but guest
speaker nonetheless. Really, I

1256
01:22:31.470 --> 01:22:35.591
just want to climb back onto the
soapbox that Emilia set the

1257
01:22:35.591 --> 01:22:39.779
platform for us so high, you
guys set it high and I just want

1258
01:22:39.779 --> 01:22:44.102
to give you some, maybe put some
graphics into that soapbox, is

1259
01:22:44.102 --> 01:22:44.440
that?

1260
01:22:45.210 --> 01:22:49.173
So the cares funding was
emergency stimulus funding. So

1261
01:22:49.173 --> 01:22:53.560
it was new to IMLS as well. And
I remember it's almost, what,

1262
01:22:53.560 --> 01:22:57.170
three years ago now that
appropriation was passed.

1263
01:22:57.860 --> 01:23:01.271
And we had to struggle with what
are we going to do with this

1264
01:23:01.271 --> 01:23:04.573
money? We have $50 million and
it was a leadership team got

1265
01:23:04.573 --> 01:23:07.929
together, the executives got
together and had to figure this

1266
01:23:07.929 --> 01:23:08.150
out.

1267
01:23:08.950 --> 01:23:12.917
And we had Terry, the program
officers from grants to states

1268
01:23:12.917 --> 01:23:17.015
who are leading the charge along
with Cindy, Cindy Landrum, on

1269
01:23:17.015 --> 01:23:20.592
setting some really flexible
standards that the States

1270
01:23:20.592 --> 01:23:24.754
absorbed and the states helped
to get $30 million. We were able

1271
01:23:24.754 --> 01:23:28.397
to award an obligate money,
which was important because

1272
01:23:28.397 --> 01:23:32.689
Congress wanted to know how much
your cares funds were obligated.

1273
01:23:33.740 --> 01:23:36.050
We got 30 million out the door
very quickly.

1274
01:23:36.740 --> 01:23:41.373
And then let's keep moving along
through the year. Back in 2020,

1275
01:23:41.373 --> 01:23:45.152
they wanted to know how much is
being spent and your

1276
01:23:45.152 --> 01:23:49.572
organizations were spending the
money. That made us look very

1277
01:23:49.572 --> 01:23:54.206
good. So Congress was inquiring
when we had to start setting the

1278
01:23:54.206 --> 01:23:58.768
budget for 2222 requests going
into place. We were able to talk

1279
01:23:58.768 --> 01:24:02.476
to OMB and the President's
administration about the

1280
01:24:02.476 --> 01:24:07.110
obligating and the spending that
was being done. And there is a.

1281
01:24:07.180 --> 01:24:12.213
Very strong correlation between
the work you did that got us the

1282
01:24:12.213 --> 01:24:17.091
much larger art funds in 2021.
So we know the work's not done,

1283
01:24:17.091 --> 01:24:21.427
but it was your efforts, it got
us to where we are. The

1284
01:24:21.427 --> 01:24:24.369
evaluation is very important
because.

1285
01:24:25.410 --> 01:24:29.331
Well, let me go back. We were
leading that in getting money

1286
01:24:29.331 --> 01:24:31.750
out the door and spending money,
so.

1287
01:24:32.450 --> 01:24:36.175
Evaluations, we want to be
leading edge in that too. We

1288
01:24:36.175 --> 01:24:40.166
want to be first out the door
and what you're talking about

1289
01:24:40.166 --> 01:24:44.157
now during the last half hour is
really going to drive some

1290
01:24:44.157 --> 01:24:48.148
important thoughts and help us
by good narrative for future

1291
01:24:48.148 --> 01:24:52.272
appropriations and request. So
keep it up. We know the work's

1292
01:24:52.272 --> 01:24:55.997
not done at the CFO level
because we're doing all close

1293
01:24:55.997 --> 01:24:57.860
outs that you're sending in.

1294
01:24:58.580 --> 01:24:59.050
Umm.

1295
01:25:00.140 --> 01:25:03.971
It's important work and it's not
going to stop. We're in a new

1296
01:25:03.971 --> 01:25:07.681
reality now and we need people
that are on the ground seeing

1297
01:25:07.681 --> 01:25:11.148
what's going on to help us get
more money to you, to the

1298
01:25:11.148 --> 01:25:14.190
communities, and help this
nation. So keep it up.

1299
01:25:20.240 --> 01:25:23.870
Terry, are you going to take us
to break? Oh, go on break.

1300
01:25:25.380 --> 01:25:28.060
Come back at quarter after.
Thank you.

1301
01:25:37.250 --> 01:25:41.595
That's a couple of years that we
have dealt with a lot of things

1302
01:25:41.595 --> 01:25:45.740
that were unexpected. Perhaps,
maybe things are a little bit.

1303
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:52.550
Something came out of left field
that you weren't quite prepared

1304
01:25:52.550 --> 01:25:56.651
for and so you know we were
thinking this is a great

1305
01:25:56.651 --> 01:26:01.527
opportunity to kind of take that
memory of that sort of caught

1306
01:26:01.527 --> 01:26:03.230
off guard feeling and.

1307
01:26:04.480 --> 01:26:08.806
And try to think ahead. Think
about what could be done in the

1308
01:26:08.806 --> 01:26:13.133
future to sort of do some flex
some scenario planning muscles

1309
01:26:13.133 --> 01:26:14.180
if you will so.

1310
01:26:14.940 --> 01:26:18.883
That is what we're going to do
tonight, this afternoon, and

1311
01:26:18.883 --> 01:26:22.760
then a second session tomorrow
afternoon to do a couple of

1312
01:26:22.760 --> 01:26:27.032
exercises in this realm. So what
this really is, is the scenario

1313
01:26:27.032 --> 01:26:31.040
planning. Another potentially
more popular way of discussing

1314
01:26:31.040 --> 01:26:34.983
it is futures and futuring. And
so it really is about these

1315
01:26:34.983 --> 01:26:38.795
three things here, making
projections, being prepared and

1316
01:26:38.795 --> 01:26:42.804
actually planning in advance in
the case that those kinds of

1317
01:26:42.804 --> 01:26:45.170
things were to actually take
place.

1318
01:26:45.990 --> 01:26:50.418
And specifically we wanted to
it's talked a lot about in a lot

1319
01:26:50.418 --> 01:26:54.213
of contexts. IMS in other
capacities has supported on

1320
01:26:54.213 --> 01:26:58.782
future schools, futures training
librarians to be futurists. But

1321
01:26:58.782 --> 01:27:02.718
we obviously for the sake of
time and to hone in on the

1322
01:27:02.718 --> 01:27:07.076
purpose of our time together as
LSA coordinators we wanted to

1323
01:27:07.076 --> 01:27:11.153
hone in on the LSA and state
library contexts of scenario

1324
01:27:11.153 --> 01:27:15.299
planning. So what we're going to
do to this afternoon and.

1325
01:27:15.370 --> 01:27:20.871
Tomorrow afternoon is have an
opportunity to think ahead, and

1326
01:27:20.871 --> 01:27:26.460
we're hoping that by doing this
it can help you all anticipate

1327
01:27:26.460 --> 01:27:31.429
changing roles of state
libraries, LSA coordinators and

1328
01:27:31.429 --> 01:27:36.575
think of how the work that is
done in a state library can

1329
01:27:36.575 --> 01:27:42.431
maintain its relevance no matter
what may befall the world or the

1330
01:27:42.431 --> 01:27:44.650
state or the country. So.

1331
01:27:45.390 --> 01:27:47.730
Here's how the sections are
going to be structured.

1332
01:27:49.090 --> 01:27:52.438
Will break out the in person
attendees in three different

1333
01:27:52.438 --> 01:27:56.134
groups. I'll, I'll do that in a
second once I eye up the tables

1334
01:27:56.134 --> 01:27:59.656
and who's at what table, and
then they'll be in three groups

1335
01:27:59.656 --> 01:28:03.063
and you'll all have a unique
scenario that we have come up

1336
01:28:03.063 --> 01:28:06.296
with that takes place in the
year 2040. And the virtual

1337
01:28:06.296 --> 01:28:09.818
attendees will also have their
own scenario to work through.

1338
01:28:09.818 --> 01:28:13.629
They'll go to their own breakout
room, and I believe that they're

1339
01:28:13.629 --> 01:28:16.690
providing the link to the
breakout room in the chat.

1340
01:28:17.480 --> 01:28:21.353
And and then each group will
have a facilitator from IMLS to

1341
01:28:21.353 --> 01:28:24.274
kind of help guide the
discussion, answer any

1342
01:28:24.274 --> 01:28:27.640
questions, kind of yeah,
Shepherd that conversation.

1343
01:28:28.480 --> 01:28:32.557
And then what you'll be doing in
this session is you'll have 30

1344
01:28:32.557 --> 01:28:36.316
minutes to 1st digest the
scenario. So we'll have handouts

1345
01:28:36.316 --> 01:28:40.202
so you guys can kind of process
it. And then there's a space

1346
01:28:40.202 --> 01:28:44.280
where you can kind of make some
individual notes about what you

1347
01:28:44.280 --> 01:28:48.357
think the implications are for
that and and like as a group for

1348
01:28:48.357 --> 01:28:52.307
the 20 remaining 25 minutes,
you'll collectively consider the

1349
01:28:52.307 --> 01:28:56.194
implications for the work of
state libraries and then within

1350
01:28:56.194 --> 01:28:58.870
that time the 30 minutes you'll
identify.

1351
01:28:59.010 --> 01:29:02.798
A representative who will share
a summary of the group's work

1352
01:29:02.798 --> 01:29:06.219
when we come back together. And
just as a reminder, the

1353
01:29:06.219 --> 01:29:09.946
summarizing part is going to be
helpful because you all have

1354
01:29:09.946 --> 01:29:13.673
different scenarios. So just be
thinking about that with the

1355
01:29:13.673 --> 01:29:17.400
with the share out piece. So
today we have again I mentioned

1356
01:29:17.400 --> 01:29:21.310
well first of all the breakout
rooms have flip charts to gather

1357
01:29:21.310 --> 01:29:25.159
and arrange your ideas. The ILS
representatives will also help

1358
01:29:25.159 --> 01:29:28.520
with kind of gathering and
organizing the thoughts and

1359
01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:29.620
ideas that you'll.

1360
01:29:29.710 --> 01:29:33.686
The brainstorming today's
session I in the Wizard of Oz

1361
01:29:33.686 --> 01:29:37.591
theme, I would say is more of an
alphabet moment. Here

1362
01:29:37.591 --> 01:29:41.922
challenges, curveballs, things
that are not great happening.

1363
01:29:41.922 --> 01:29:46.324
And then tomorrow session is
more of a Glenda time where it's

1364
01:29:46.324 --> 01:29:50.726
windfalls and wonderful things,
the very positive things that

1365
01:29:50.726 --> 01:29:53.140
would be happening in the
future.

1366
01:29:55.250 --> 01:29:58.917
OK. And so another way too,
especially if you're new to this

1367
01:29:58.917 --> 01:30:02.344
sort of way of thinking, many of
us are we've, I know me

1368
01:30:02.344 --> 01:30:06.132
personally, I've heard of this
process. I haven't actually put

1369
01:30:06.132 --> 01:30:10.100
my sink my teeth into it before.
So this is just one possible way

1370
01:30:10.100 --> 01:30:13.106
to think through the
implications of of what this

1371
01:30:13.106 --> 01:30:16.533
means to libraries is called
organizing them by order of

1372
01:30:16.533 --> 01:30:19.900
consequence. So we'll have
different things you can jot

1373
01:30:19.900 --> 01:30:23.688
down on your paper etcetera, and
you can organize maybe by the

1374
01:30:23.688 --> 01:30:24.289
1st order.

1375
01:30:24.360 --> 01:30:27.795
Consequence, like if if this
thing were to happen, this is

1376
01:30:27.795 --> 01:30:31.231
the first consequence and then
when that happens then this

1377
01:30:31.231 --> 01:30:34.957
consequence will take place. So
it kind of allows your brain to

1378
01:30:34.957 --> 01:30:38.626
organize a chronological cause
effect of of what this scenario

1379
01:30:38.626 --> 01:30:41.130
would do to libraries and state
libraries.

1380
01:30:43.190 --> 01:30:46.608
And then we just again because
this is very new kind of

1381
01:30:46.608 --> 01:30:50.087
exercise, we have a couple of
norms to put out there for

1382
01:30:50.087 --> 01:30:53.871
everybody, be open to new ideas.
This is very much similar to

1383
01:30:53.871 --> 01:30:57.777
brainstorming environment where
you kind of let things marinate

1384
01:30:57.777 --> 01:31:01.378
for a while, challenge your
assumptions, suspend disbelief

1385
01:31:01.378 --> 01:31:05.162
is very important when you're
talking about things that could

1386
01:31:05.162 --> 01:31:09.008
happen in 2040, staying future
oriented. So really be thinking

1387
01:31:09.008 --> 01:31:12.609
about, OK, this is what the
scenario says, so I'm going to

1388
01:31:12.609 --> 01:31:13.829
stay in that moment.

1389
01:31:14.230 --> 01:31:16.895
And fully participate by
listening, actively

1390
01:31:16.895 --> 01:31:20.390
contributing, really leaving
space in the conversation for

1391
01:31:20.390 --> 01:31:24.300
others you may have. This may be
something that comes really easy

1392
01:31:24.300 --> 01:31:27.914
to you. You may have a a ton of
things to share, but kind of

1393
01:31:27.914 --> 01:31:31.291
letting as many people kind of
get comfortable with this

1394
01:31:31.291 --> 01:31:34.490
conversation as possible. And
stay engaged of course.

1395
01:31:36.400 --> 01:31:41.264
OK, so these are the breakout
assignments. Madison will be in

1396
01:31:41.264 --> 01:31:45.578
her namesake the Madison
Ballroom. So umm so yeah, let

1397
01:31:45.578 --> 01:31:50.286
me, let me take a minute then.
Just do these breakouts. Now

1398
01:31:50.286 --> 01:31:54.914
visually, let's see when I go
with this table, this table,

1399
01:31:54.914 --> 01:31:56.170
this table, and.

1400
01:31:56.840 --> 01:31:57.390
Yeah, that should.

1401
01:32:01.760 --> 01:32:06.012
Our scenario was that a
sophisticated multinational

1402
01:32:06.012 --> 01:32:10.510
cyber terror organization
launches a coordinated cyber

1403
01:32:10.510 --> 01:32:14.926
disaster in 2040. So all
government systems worldwide

1404
01:32:14.926 --> 01:32:19.423
have been targeted on some
Internet remains mostly for

1405
01:32:19.423 --> 01:32:24.657
personal use, not for government
use. Connectivity returns at a

1406
01:32:24.657 --> 01:32:28.910
snails pace and it's eight
months, it's completely.

1407
01:32:31.090 --> 01:32:34.830
And then there's also an epic
present threat of more cyber

1408
01:32:34.830 --> 01:32:36.860
attacks. So we approach this as.

1409
01:32:38.710 --> 01:32:42.809
It feels a lot like a reverse
COVID. So instead of taking

1410
01:32:42.809 --> 01:32:46.766
everything online, we're
bringing everything back to in

1411
01:32:46.766 --> 01:32:51.219
person, so library spaces become
a lot more important. We also

1412
01:32:51.219 --> 01:32:55.318
were lucky enough to have a
hector and a it's Amy, right?

1413
01:32:55.318 --> 01:32:58.640
We've experienced. Not that
we're they're not.

1414
01:32:59.920 --> 01:33:04.386
That communities have come from
hurricanes have experienced this

1415
01:33:04.386 --> 01:33:08.921
similar loss of connectivity and
so there was a lot of talk about

1416
01:33:08.921 --> 01:33:13.043
the sort of phone tree systems,
the satellite phones having

1417
01:33:13.043 --> 01:33:17.509
paper backups of everything. And
so we talked a lot about how we

1418
01:33:17.509 --> 01:33:21.288
would need to maybe support
libraries with paper toner

1419
01:33:21.288 --> 01:33:25.205
physical resources and we
thought about that there might

1420
01:33:25.205 --> 01:33:28.847
be some supply chain issues
around opposed to around

1421
01:33:28.847 --> 01:33:30.290
technology this time.

1422
01:33:30.500 --> 01:33:31.560
Around.

1423
01:33:32.730 --> 01:33:36.142
That you bring to her and
physical material. And we also

1424
01:33:36.142 --> 01:33:39.913
talked about the security and
facility risks. So if everything

1425
01:33:39.913 --> 01:33:43.564
is on a, you know, heat card,
those will have to be repeated

1426
01:33:43.564 --> 01:33:46.916
so that you can use lots. And
how are we protecting our

1427
01:33:46.916 --> 01:33:50.508
interpersonal spaces? Are we
remaining security guards? Are

1428
01:33:50.508 --> 01:33:54.220
people looting the buildings and
anyone, can everyone get in?

1429
01:33:55.140 --> 01:33:58.246
We talked a little bit about how
this disrupts funding

1430
01:33:58.246 --> 01:34:01.749
completely. If your payroll is
online, if you're drawing down

1431
01:34:01.749 --> 01:34:05.195
funds, safer EMS, you can't do
that. So how are we accessing

1432
01:34:05.195 --> 01:34:08.584
our funds? I also think you
talked a little bit about it in

1433
01:34:08.584 --> 01:34:11.973
the wider scope, what other
services are out. So it's water

1434
01:34:11.973 --> 01:34:15.589
out, spanking out like we don't
quite know, but we can do a lot

1435
01:34:15.589 --> 01:34:19.148
of critical services for people
are probably also out and then

1436
01:34:19.148 --> 01:34:22.480
talking a lot about being a
trusted source of information.

1437
01:34:22.480 --> 01:34:24.910
So as we're rebuilding, are we
rebuilding?

1438
01:34:25.530 --> 01:34:29.792
Local intranets, so that library
can at least communicate within

1439
01:34:29.792 --> 01:34:33.727
the development online, and
also, you know, steering people

1440
01:34:33.727 --> 01:34:37.662
in the correct direction as
things begin to come online and

1441
01:34:37.662 --> 01:34:39.630
making sure that they're safe.

1442
01:34:41.450 --> 01:34:45.617
I did mention like maybe less
resource safe libraries might be

1443
01:34:45.617 --> 01:34:49.718
an advantage if we don't have
those virtual systems in place.

1444
01:34:49.718 --> 01:34:53.554
So if you're still doing your
payroll by hand or in a non

1445
01:34:53.554 --> 01:34:57.126
cloud based system maybe it
wouldn't be that that bad

1446
01:34:57.126 --> 01:34:57.919
potentially.

1447
01:34:59.540 --> 01:35:03.257
Yeah. And so just a big question
of how does everybody get paid

1448
01:35:03.257 --> 01:35:07.033
if the banking systems are down
any, did I miss anything? I will

1449
01:35:07.033 --> 01:35:10.634
say that they also mentioned SPR
reporting came up in ours as

1450
01:35:10.634 --> 01:35:14.119
well that they can't be expected
to do as much with the SPR

1451
01:35:14.119 --> 01:35:17.430
report if it's all paper based
and we would be receiving

1452
01:35:17.430 --> 01:35:20.974
binders of of paperwork from
them. We're not very interested

1453
01:35:20.974 --> 01:35:23.530
in filling them out by hand.
Thank you. So.

1454
01:35:26.690 --> 01:35:30.022
Thank you. All right, the 3rd
and final in Person Group and

1455
01:35:30.022 --> 01:35:32.300
then we'll move on to the
virtual group.

1456
01:35:39.190 --> 01:35:44.900
Hi. So our scenario was that
Congress decided to no longer

1457
01:35:44.900 --> 01:35:50.998
fund any program or collections
that would all be local issues

1458
01:35:50.998 --> 01:35:54.870
and we would go back to the LCA
system.

1459
01:35:55.560 --> 01:36:00.025
And local libraries would be
required to put up a 50% match,

1460
01:36:00.025 --> 01:36:04.491
but we'd have a lot more money
because we'd get $500 million

1461
01:36:04.491 --> 01:36:08.884
that was each state, right?
Yeah, yeah. So we'd be swimming

1462
01:36:08.884 --> 01:36:12.837
in cash. But it was kind of
interesting because as we

1463
01:36:12.837 --> 01:36:17.230
developed our ideas, especially
around the implications, we

1464
01:36:17.230 --> 01:36:21.476
started off with kind of
doomsday negative things and but

1465
01:36:21.476 --> 01:36:25.430
at the end, we kind of came
around to some positives.

1466
01:36:26.170 --> 01:36:29.943
So we worried about a rich, poor
divide because we thought that

1467
01:36:29.943 --> 01:36:33.540
people who couldn't come up with
a match wouldn't get money.

1468
01:36:34.570 --> 01:36:37.859
But then later on we said, well,
maybe the state could be

1469
01:36:37.859 --> 01:36:40.751
instrumental in how it was
divided and it wouldn't

1470
01:36:40.751 --> 01:36:44.324
necessarily have to depend just
upon the local library. But we

1471
01:36:44.324 --> 01:36:47.272
did think that aspirational
projects would probably

1472
01:36:47.272 --> 01:36:47.840
disappear.

1473
01:36:49.800 --> 01:36:53.236
Consultants, library development
type consultants would no longer

1474
01:36:53.236 --> 01:36:55.580
be needed. Not sure if that was
good or bad.

1475
01:36:58.160 --> 01:37:02.242
But we did think that smaller
libraries would have a lot more

1476
01:37:02.242 --> 01:37:06.193
difficulties. Statewide projects
would be imperiled because

1477
01:37:06.193 --> 01:37:10.012
unless the state decided to fund
them without any federal

1478
01:37:10.012 --> 01:37:14.095
funding, they would disappear,
probably as long the structure

1479
01:37:14.095 --> 01:37:18.375
and award would probably have to
go over a larger period of time

1480
01:37:18.375 --> 01:37:22.590
because construction takes more
time. In some cases, state laws

1481
01:37:22.590 --> 01:37:26.738
would have to be changed because
their current status wouldn't

1482
01:37:26.738 --> 01:37:27.990
allow this program.

1483
01:37:28.640 --> 01:37:31.570
We think it would be very
expensive. We'd probably end up

1484
01:37:31.570 --> 01:37:32.480
paying a lot more.

1485
01:37:33.720 --> 01:37:37.627
It could be something that would
be very popular with areas that

1486
01:37:37.627 --> 01:37:39.010
were already very rich.

1487
01:37:40.390 --> 01:37:44.069
We said we would need more staff
overall at state libraries

1488
01:37:44.069 --> 01:37:47.993
because of different specialties
that we're not really covering

1489
01:37:47.993 --> 01:37:51.672
right now. And in any case the
staff would change. What the

1490
01:37:51.672 --> 01:37:54.922
staff does and what their
expertise is would have to

1491
01:37:54.922 --> 01:37:58.662
change. So how would the money
be divided and who would make

1492
01:37:58.662 --> 01:38:02.280
the decisions? Would it be a
better infrastructure or not?

1493
01:38:02.280 --> 01:38:05.898
And then we also said five year
plan, whole new ball game,

1494
01:38:05.898 --> 01:38:09.700
right? So we were asked to talk
a little bit about the rules.

1495
01:38:10.400 --> 01:38:14.702
And we thought that there'd be a
lot more compliance role for the

1496
01:38:14.702 --> 01:38:19.005
director and that would probably
need severe retraining for staff

1497
01:38:19.005 --> 01:38:23.178
that could remain. And then we
talked about distribution of the

1498
01:38:23.178 --> 01:38:23.829
money and.

1499
01:38:24.790 --> 01:38:29.360
Whether or not this money could
be available to nonprofits that

1500
01:38:29.360 --> 01:38:33.360
have libraries as well as to
publicly funded libraries.

1501
01:38:35.610 --> 01:38:39.417
And it could be more equitable,
but there's no guarantee that it

1502
01:38:39.417 --> 01:38:42.815
would be more equitable. So it
would be kind of more of a

1503
01:38:42.815 --> 01:38:46.564
lottery across different states.
People could make up their own

1504
01:38:46.564 --> 01:38:48.790
minds about how they wanted to
do it.

1505
01:38:49.970 --> 01:38:53.090
There would definitely be
political ramifications. And

1506
01:38:53.090 --> 01:38:56.040
then we kind of said, well,
would it only be public

1507
01:38:56.040 --> 01:38:59.330
libraries or would we also be
funding school libraries or

1508
01:38:59.330 --> 01:39:02.734
academic libraries? So in that.
So for jobs we said that we

1509
01:39:02.734 --> 01:39:05.627
would need lots of project
managers, we need labor

1510
01:39:05.627 --> 01:39:09.031
compliance specialists, we would
have to become experts and

1511
01:39:09.031 --> 01:39:12.775
things like prevailing wages. We
would probably need more lawyers

1512
01:39:12.775 --> 01:39:16.520
for legal advice and maybe staff
architect could be a great idea.

1513
01:39:17.960 --> 01:39:23.256
Thank you. Thank you. All right.
And now for our virtual cindie's

1514
01:39:23.256 --> 01:39:24.380
coming around.

1515
01:39:28.240 --> 01:39:32.686
Climate change climate change is
reaching catastrophic levels in

1516
01:39:32.686 --> 01:39:36.381
the United States. In 2040, a
third of the country is

1517
01:39:36.381 --> 01:39:40.691
experiencing drastic, permanent
change of the landscape due to

1518
01:39:40.691 --> 01:39:44.522
historic heavy rains and
flooding. Entire swaths of the

1519
01:39:44.522 --> 01:39:48.627
country are now uninhabitable,
and it's resulting in a mass

1520
01:39:48.627 --> 01:39:53.006
relocation largely to the Great
Plains. By 2045, it's projected

1521
01:39:53.006 --> 01:39:56.289
that the majority of the United
of the country.

1522
01:39:56.410 --> 01:39:58.790
Has lived in their residence for
a year or less.

1523
01:40:00.260 --> 01:40:01.210
It's fascinating.

1524
01:40:03.830 --> 01:40:06.320
I'm going to hit the highlights.
I'm going to do my best.

1525
01:40:08.070 --> 01:40:11.355
We talked about for the
implications for the state

1526
01:40:11.355 --> 01:40:15.028
infrastructure was a big
discussion because we got a lot

1527
01:40:15.028 --> 01:40:18.894
of folks coming into a much
smaller section. SLA is helping

1528
01:40:18.894 --> 01:40:22.953
the transient folks and continue
to offer resources. Obviously

1529
01:40:22.953 --> 01:40:26.883
all federal versus state funding
is a possibility. The Great

1530
01:40:26.883 --> 01:40:30.491
Plains states might create new
states. I think this was

1531
01:40:30.491 --> 01:40:33.520
something that someone else had
mentioned you.

1532
01:40:35.320 --> 01:40:39.211
Library buildings as a building,
a reconstruction,

1533
01:40:39.211 --> 01:40:43.789
reconceptualize, possibly pop up
libraries and connect with

1534
01:40:43.789 --> 01:40:47.681
communities beyond
jurisdictions. It would just be

1535
01:40:47.681 --> 01:40:47.909
us.

1536
01:40:49.690 --> 01:40:50.370
Kind of like.

1537
01:40:52.180 --> 01:40:55.874
Second question, how would the
role of the LC coordinator

1538
01:40:55.874 --> 01:40:57.530
change get rid of the SPR?

1539
01:40:59.420 --> 01:41:02.882
It was tough. I'm sorry. It was
tough. I can't make this up. I

1540
01:41:02.882 --> 01:41:05.850
swear to God they they did. They
did mention possibly

1541
01:41:05.850 --> 01:41:07.170
subcontracting that out.

1542
01:41:08.830 --> 01:41:12.251
They would, they would think
that a shorter year plant like

1543
01:41:12.251 --> 01:41:15.844
not a five year plan, it would
probably be an annual five year

1544
01:41:15.844 --> 01:41:19.323
plan. We're still split on the
grants, some would like fewer

1545
01:41:19.323 --> 01:41:21.320
someone that some would like
more.

1546
01:41:22.960 --> 01:41:27.168
LTA coordinator responsibilities
could be shared given the change

1547
01:41:27.168 --> 01:41:30.292
in every everybody's daily
lives, especially the

1548
01:41:30.292 --> 01:41:32.970
coordinators themselves, the
worker bees.

1549
01:41:34.680 --> 01:41:37.870
And then how would funding be
best utilized?

1550
01:41:39.600 --> 01:41:41.630
Subgrants construction.

1551
01:41:43.250 --> 01:41:45.380
Breakdown barriers for the
subgrants.

1552
01:41:46.850 --> 01:41:50.795
To address the potential
homelessness that this mass

1553
01:41:50.795 --> 01:41:54.591
migration is likely to bring
about food insecurity

1554
01:41:54.591 --> 01:41:56.080
operational funding.

1555
01:41:58.090 --> 01:42:02.484
Engagement specialists to help
navigate social agencies, forms,

1556
01:42:02.484 --> 01:42:06.330
things like that. Social
services librarians going back

1557
01:42:06.330 --> 01:42:10.587
to being Sherlock and research
prove who I am. Kind of folks,

1558
01:42:10.587 --> 01:42:14.776
you know, if you need to track
down a a birth certificate or

1559
01:42:14.776 --> 01:42:18.690
something like that. One central
piece of ID. So one ID.

1560
01:42:20.460 --> 01:42:24.191
And addressing the emotional
well-being for library

1561
01:42:24.191 --> 01:42:28.496
employees, that sounds great.
And then lastly, how what new

1562
01:42:28.496 --> 01:42:32.801
title titles would be emerge,
outreach positions, obviously

1563
01:42:32.801 --> 01:42:37.250
community engagement, someone
suggested a four day work week.

1564
01:42:38.970 --> 01:42:42.644
Remote tech positions. I know
those are hard to do. I also

1565
01:42:42.644 --> 01:42:46.255
mentioned circulation because I
know that those folks are

1566
01:42:46.255 --> 01:42:48.560
pretty, pretty married to that
desk.

1567
01:42:50.290 --> 01:42:51.790
What do collections look like?

1568
01:42:52.590 --> 01:42:55.910
Are there prints materials in my
follow up with statement was?

1569
01:42:57.700 --> 01:43:02.127
Social workers and if offering
grants make them non

1570
01:43:02.127 --> 01:43:03.830
competitive. Thanks.

1571
01:43:05.440 --> 01:43:08.944
Virtual team. All right. Well,
that was really, really

1572
01:43:08.944 --> 01:43:12.895
interesting. I have to say at
least from our perspective that

1573
01:43:12.895 --> 01:43:16.718
that 30 minutes like flew by.
And so yeah, it was a really,

1574
01:43:16.718 --> 01:43:20.669
really interesting discussion.
And I if you have any thoughts

1575
01:43:20.669 --> 01:43:24.301
or observations about the
process, just hold on to those

1576
01:43:24.301 --> 01:43:28.443
because like I said, tomorrow is
a longer session where we'll go

1577
01:43:28.443 --> 01:43:32.266
over nice things, wonderful
things and then we'll have some

1578
01:43:32.266 --> 01:43:35.580
time to talk about the process
in general and like.

1579
01:43:35.690 --> 01:43:40.186
What your thoughts were on that
and how it could benefit you as

1580
01:43:40.186 --> 01:43:44.752
you plan for the future. So good
job everybody and now I'm going

1581
01:43:44.752 --> 01:43:49.037
to hand it over to Terry who's
going to begin the wrap up of

1582
01:43:49.037 --> 01:43:49.599
day one.

1583
01:43:53.500 --> 01:43:53.680
No.

1584
01:43:55.230 --> 01:43:59.181
And actually, I'm going to turn
it over to another colleague of

1585
01:43:59.181 --> 01:44:02.700
ours who has been dutifully
helping the virtual team all

1586
01:44:02.700 --> 01:44:05.972
day. So Laura, why don't you
make your way up as I'm

1587
01:44:05.972 --> 01:44:06.960
introducing you?

1588
01:44:08.330 --> 01:44:08.700
Correct.

1589
01:44:11.360 --> 01:44:15.440
Laura's been with I am LS for
over 6 years and with our grants

1590
01:44:15.440 --> 01:44:19.651
to states team for about 2 1/2.
And I think we all agree that we

1591
01:44:19.651 --> 01:44:23.473
just don't know what we do
without her. I mean, she tracks

1592
01:44:23.473 --> 01:44:27.618
thousands of things for us on an
annual basis. She keeps us all

1593
01:44:27.618 --> 01:44:31.634
organized across the portfolios.
She has been instrumental in

1594
01:44:31.634 --> 01:44:35.586
getting all your web profile
pages updated because she's got

1595
01:44:35.586 --> 01:44:39.602
access to the website now and
she's just generally wonderful.

1596
01:44:39.602 --> 01:44:43.100
So she's getting to do the
wonderful part of the day.

1597
01:44:43.170 --> 01:44:47.327
Which is to do the recognition
of all of you. And we're also

1598
01:44:47.327 --> 01:44:51.622
going to pull Cindy Boyden out
from behind virtual screens. So

1599
01:44:51.622 --> 01:44:55.848
it's me for a moment. I'm going
to hop in there and just hold

1600
01:44:55.848 --> 01:45:00.347
down the Fort. And maybe Emily's
in there too. So. So don't don't

1601
01:45:00.347 --> 01:45:04.709
dismay. We've still got some MLS
peeps on the virtual side. But

1602
01:45:04.709 --> 01:45:07.300
Laura, come on up and get us
started.

1603
01:45:12.280 --> 01:45:13.700
Oh, thanks so much, Sherry.

1604
01:45:15.920 --> 01:45:20.343
First of all, just a couple of
announcements before we do the

1605
01:45:20.343 --> 01:45:24.482
awards. At 6:00 o'clock, the
program Officer office hours

1606
01:45:24.482 --> 01:45:28.977
with Madison Bowles and Cindy
Boyden will be here in this room

1607
01:45:28.977 --> 01:45:33.543
plus the South room on the third
floor for Dennis Nangle and we

1608
01:45:33.543 --> 01:45:37.895
will use the same rooms for
tomorrow morning's office hours.

1609
01:45:37.895 --> 01:45:41.891
And the sign up sheets are in
the registration area for

1610
01:45:41.891 --> 01:45:44.460
reference and if you signed up
for.

1611
01:45:44.530 --> 01:45:49.656
Lying around. So you might want
to meet your group here by the

1612
01:45:49.656 --> 01:45:54.538
easel when we're finished to
coordinate. And if you had any

1613
01:45:54.538 --> 01:45:59.421
parking lot questions, we can
start off day 2 by addressing

1614
01:45:59.421 --> 01:46:04.221
those and also remember the
peer-to-peer appreciation wall

1615
01:46:04.221 --> 01:46:07.070
as well. And now for the fun
part.

1616
01:46:08.960 --> 01:46:12.431
Recognition. So every year we
really look forward to

1617
01:46:12.431 --> 01:46:16.426
celebrating you all based on
different achievements, some of

1618
01:46:16.426 --> 01:46:20.421
which are, you know, pretty
mundane part of our program, but

1619
01:46:20.421 --> 01:46:24.481
are very important to us. We are
going to have several of our

1620
01:46:24.481 --> 01:46:28.673
award recipients participating
virtually, so they won't be able

1621
01:46:28.673 --> 01:46:32.799
to come up and get a group photo
like we often do, but we will

1622
01:46:32.799 --> 01:46:36.860
acknowledge them all the same.
And I especially want to thank

1623
01:46:36.860 --> 01:46:39.480
Dennis Nangle for spearheading
so much.

1624
01:46:39.550 --> 01:46:44.245
With this and creating the
lovely certificates, I also want

1625
01:46:44.245 --> 01:46:49.098
to just claim that no federal
funds were used in the creation

1626
01:46:49.098 --> 01:46:53.246
of these prizes. We have
certificates and an emerald

1627
01:46:53.246 --> 01:46:58.333
colored candy for each of you if
you're in person, and we'd like

1628
01:46:58.333 --> 01:47:03.420
you to stay here at the front of
the room with your fellow award

1629
01:47:03.420 --> 01:47:08.272
category winners for a group
photo. As you know, our theme is

1630
01:47:08.272 --> 01:47:09.290
Emerald City.

1631
01:47:09.570 --> 01:47:14.520
So with that in mind, we will
kick it off with the over the

1632
01:47:14.520 --> 01:47:19.140
Rainbow award. This award
recognizes states who are the

1633
01:47:19.140 --> 01:47:24.337
1st in each of the three program
officers portfolios to submit

1634
01:47:24.337 --> 01:47:29.535
their interim FFR's ahead of the
December 30th deadline. So to

1635
01:47:29.535 --> 01:47:34.402
kick it off with Wyoming, I
believe we have Susan Mark and

1636
01:47:34.402 --> 01:47:36.300
Jessica Otto in person.

1637
01:47:43.360 --> 01:47:44.860
Congratulations.

1638
01:47:46.040 --> 01:47:50.950
And North Carolina Catherine
Prince also in person.

1639
01:48:00.380 --> 01:48:05.110
And Alabama. I believe they are
virtual Kellen Ralia.

1640
01:48:10.270 --> 01:48:14.452
And we also wanted to note that
Wyoming and North Carolina

1641
01:48:14.452 --> 01:48:18.847
submitted before anyone else
with mid-october and Alabama was

1642
01:48:18.847 --> 01:48:21.400
close behind in early November,
so.

1643
01:48:22.270 --> 01:48:23.220
Great job.

1644
01:48:25.750 --> 01:48:26.010
No.

1645
01:48:30.840 --> 01:48:35.119
OK. Next up is the yellow Brick
Road award for states that got

1646
01:48:35.119 --> 01:48:39.330
their signed certifications down
the yellow brick road faster

1647
01:48:39.330 --> 01:48:43.609
than everyone else's. These are
the annual certifications that

1648
01:48:43.609 --> 01:48:47.888
states need to submit within 10
days of receiving their annual

1649
01:48:47.888 --> 01:48:52.032
award. And we have three states
from each portfolio for this

1650
01:48:52.032 --> 01:48:56.039
one. So I'll start with Madison
bowls and the first one is

1651
01:48:56.039 --> 01:48:59.299
Connecticut. They are virtual.
Congratulations.

1652
01:49:01.880 --> 01:49:07.028
And Next up is Maryland. I know
we have some in person attending

1653
01:49:07.028 --> 01:49:08.850
Mary and another Laura.

1654
01:49:15.770 --> 01:49:21.410
And Maine, we have Jenna Davis,
who is virtual.

1655
01:49:26.660 --> 01:49:32.527
And Next up, Cindy Boyden's
portfolio on Nebraska, Sam Shaw

1656
01:49:32.527 --> 01:49:33.310
virtual.

1657
01:49:37.030 --> 01:49:44.538
Virginia, we have some in person
attendees here. Kim and Wendy,

1658
01:49:44.538 --> 01:49:45.360
please.

1659
01:49:46.560 --> 01:49:47.040
Thanks.

1660
01:49:51.630 --> 01:49:57.367
And Utah, I know we have Rachel
Cook, virtual and Marilee

1661
01:49:57.367 --> 01:49:58.060
cannon.

1662
01:50:06.040 --> 01:50:10.350
And now for Dennis, New Jersey,
Maura Walsh.

1663
01:50:20.960 --> 01:50:22.490
And Idaho.

1664
01:50:23.950 --> 01:50:26.140
Leave to Layla's here, yeah?

1665
01:50:34.260 --> 01:50:36.340
And last but not least,
Missouri.

1666
01:50:37.040 --> 01:50:37.620
Any.

1667
01:50:45.540 --> 01:50:48.700
Next up is the Ruby Slipper
award.

1668
01:50:49.710 --> 01:50:50.100
No.

1669
01:51:00.770 --> 01:51:05.042
And this is for showing us that
before anyone else, that there's

1670
01:51:05.042 --> 01:51:09.249
no place like your home state,
that we're recognizing the first

1671
01:51:09.249 --> 01:51:12.930
states to submit slides for the
Lightning talk session.

1672
01:51:13.820 --> 01:51:18.250
And once again, Connecticut was
first.

1673
01:51:19.690 --> 01:51:20.590
Virtual.

1674
01:51:21.620 --> 01:51:23.250
Next up, Montana.

1675
01:51:25.340 --> 01:51:26.210
Becca.

1676
01:51:30.650 --> 01:51:32.610
And followed by Missouri.

1677
01:51:43.480 --> 01:51:43.910
Ohh.

1678
01:51:47.970 --> 01:51:48.640
So sorry.

1679
01:51:53.860 --> 01:51:54.510
Yes.

1680
01:52:01.350 --> 01:52:03.240
All right. Thank you.

1681
01:52:05.480 --> 01:52:10.998
Ohh the Lion Heart award. These
states submitted their ARPA and

1682
01:52:10.998 --> 01:52:16.344
allotment reports together on
time in the SPR within 120 days

1683
01:52:16.344 --> 01:52:22.035
of the September 30th and period
of performance. And since almost

1684
01:52:22.035 --> 01:52:26.950
every state came in for an
extension, this is especially

1685
01:52:26.950 --> 01:52:31.433
noteworthy once again by
portfolio. I'll start with

1686
01:52:31.433 --> 01:52:32.210
Arkansas.

1687
01:52:40.710 --> 01:52:43.670
And Alabama your virtual.

1688
01:52:47.780 --> 01:52:48.620
Missouri.

1689
01:52:51.110 --> 01:52:51.780
Again.

1690
01:52:57.730 --> 01:52:58.840
Tennessee.

1691
01:53:07.600 --> 01:53:08.810
And Louisiana.

1692
01:53:24.750 --> 01:53:26.180
Yes, Cindy.

1693
01:53:27.530 --> 01:53:31.080
Yes, sorry, Cindy is Wyoming.

1694
01:53:41.360 --> 01:53:41.930
And.

1695
01:53:45.080 --> 01:53:46.390
And South Dakota?

1696
01:53:54.240 --> 01:53:55.670
Massachusetts.

1697
01:54:02.780 --> 01:54:06.987
And Florida, I know we have a
couple online participants, Amy

1698
01:54:06.987 --> 01:54:07.530
Johnson.

1699
01:54:11.220 --> 01:54:13.970
And Madison states, Rhode
Island.

1700
01:54:23.800 --> 01:54:24.750
And Arizona.

1701
01:54:42.860 --> 01:54:43.330
Right.

1702
01:54:53.160 --> 01:54:54.770
All right.

1703
01:54:57.080 --> 01:55:00.980
And now we have the Oscars.
Oscars are People's Choice

1704
01:55:00.980 --> 01:55:04.951
Awards. You all had an
opportunities to submit nominees

1705
01:55:04.951 --> 01:55:09.490
via the conference registration
form and we have a great slate.

1706
01:55:10.360 --> 01:55:15.292
Starting with Maura Walsh of New
Jersey, nominated by Karen Reese

1707
01:55:15.292 --> 01:55:17.310
of the Library of Michigan.

1708
01:55:24.510 --> 01:55:29.640
And Jamie Ball of Arizona, not
also nominated by Karen Reich.

1709
01:55:35.700 --> 01:55:39.910
Amanda Gammon of California,
nominated by Michelle Killian of

1710
01:55:39.910 --> 01:55:41.880
the California State Library.

1711
01:55:56.850 --> 01:56:02.040
And Evan Strubel of Ohio,
nominated by Jeff Regensburger.

1712
01:56:09.140 --> 01:56:13.258
And Karen Reese of Michigan had
a couple nominators, Jeff

1713
01:56:13.258 --> 01:56:16.879
Renzenberger of the State
Library of Ohio, Shannon

1714
01:56:16.879 --> 01:56:21.352
furlough, Georgia Public Library
Service and Kellen Ralia from

1715
01:56:21.352 --> 01:56:21.920
Alabama.

1716
01:56:28.540 --> 01:56:33.427
And Erica McCormack was
nominated by Rachel Cook from

1717
01:56:33.427 --> 01:56:33.880
Utah.

1718
01:56:35.380 --> 01:56:35.860
Yeah.

1719
01:56:36.730 --> 01:56:40.180
And Rachel said that Erica
McCormick always has the best

1720
01:56:40.180 --> 01:56:43.812
answers and provides them with
the right amount of humor to

1721
01:56:43.812 --> 01:56:47.384
help ease the stress of the
situation. I always appreciate

1722
01:56:47.384 --> 01:56:47.990
her input.

1723
01:56:50.320 --> 01:56:53.630
Next Wendy Copeland of South
Carolina.

1724
01:56:55.730 --> 01:56:59.278
She was nominated by Jeanette
Schaefer of Vermont, and

1725
01:56:59.278 --> 01:57:03.408
Jeanette said that Wendy is is
nominated because she's the best

1726
01:57:03.408 --> 01:57:06.957
mentor ever and she's always
available. Good advice, a

1727
01:57:06.957 --> 01:57:09.279
listening ear, and great
questions.

1728
01:57:11.070 --> 01:57:15.405
And finally, Rachel Cook of
Utah, who is joining us

1729
01:57:15.405 --> 01:57:20.742
virtually. She was nominated by
several of you, Terry Blauvelt,

1730
01:57:20.742 --> 01:57:25.828
Tamara Adam, Marilee Cannon,
Alexandra Sanders, Maura Walsh,

1731
01:57:25.828 --> 01:57:30.914
who said without a doubt the
fabulous Rachel Cook from Utah,

1732
01:57:30.914 --> 01:57:36.167
Wendy Copeland said Rachel Cook
from Utah is always so helpful

1733
01:57:36.167 --> 01:57:40.420
and clear in Memora from
Washington State Library.

1734
01:57:40.490 --> 01:57:44.580
You said whenever I have an LSA
question, I look to Rachel

1735
01:57:44.580 --> 01:57:47.701
Cook's guidance. It's
comprehensive, easy to

1736
01:57:47.701 --> 01:57:49.920
understand, and publicly posted.

1737
01:57:52.810 --> 01:57:56.776
And there are also two nominees
who can't join us today, in

1738
01:57:56.776 --> 01:58:00.676
person or virtually. But we
wanted to recognize them, too.

1739
01:58:00.676 --> 01:58:04.180
Mary Jean Haver of Puerto Rico,
nominated by Hector.

1740
01:58:05.210 --> 01:58:09.331
And Shannon White of Michigan,
nominated by Jeanette Schafer.

1741
01:58:09.331 --> 01:58:13.520
Jeanette said that Shannon or
Shannon White first facilitating

1742
01:58:13.520 --> 01:58:17.376
our development director
meetings faithfully every Friday

1743
01:58:17.376 --> 01:58:21.697
for three years. And Shannon was
also nominated by Evan from the

1744
01:58:21.697 --> 01:58:23.160
State Library of Ohio.

1745
01:58:29.220 --> 01:58:30.180
Alright.

1746
01:58:32.660 --> 01:58:37.338
And this concludes our Emerald
City recognition for the year of

1747
01:58:37.338 --> 01:58:41.213
those participating in the
optional state networking

1748
01:58:41.213 --> 01:58:45.819
activities should stay here in
the ballroom and we've asked to

1749
01:58:45.819 --> 01:58:48.889
keep the cameras on for this
portion and.

1750
01:58:50.040 --> 01:58:53.455
We're also going to put up a
directional slide for office

1751
01:58:53.455 --> 01:58:56.754
hours for the people in the
room. We appreciate you and

1752
01:58:56.754 --> 01:58:59.640
we'll look forward to seeing you
again tomorrow.