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So I have the unenviable task of closing today,
keeping between you and the door is me at

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this point, or the airport, or whatever it
may be, but I did want to make just a few

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final comments.

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First is I want to say a big thank you to
the staff of the Office of Library Services

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at IMLS and the folks who made today such
a success.

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So Mary Alice Ball, who was just here.

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Tim, Terry who is not here, Sarah Fuller,
Tim Murray and they did an amazing job and

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they put this together and they deserve certainly
the credit, so please thank them.

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And of course because every event has a tremendous
amount of very complicated logistics, we'd

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like to thank Capital Meeting Planning, Matt
and Margaret who really put together a lot

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of things, I believe, probably including some
of your travel and all of those other things

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that you might need.

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So thank you very much for Capital Meeting
Planning.

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[Applause]
So what's going to come out of this?

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Well, some of you might have noticed that
Chrystie Hill and Mary Lee Prophet are here

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and they're here to help us synthesize the
comments you made and we'll publish the report

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in about a month.

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And it will be put up on to the IMLS focus
Web site.

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Most of you have found it.

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Those of you out in the twitter universe are
already leveraging it.

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Along with the report, you will find the recordings
of each of the sessions, they've also been

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transcribed there is a live transcription
going on.

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It takes a bit to sync that back to the chunks,
but that will all be available on the focus

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Web site.

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So what about the recommendations and what
do we plan to do with all of this?

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Well, just let me report on a few changes
because I think some of it will affect the

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conversation we've had today.

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There were changes made to our discretionary
program specifically to the national leadership

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grant program in this last year, and so previously
we had this really large broad call for projects

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that would represent and carry out innovation.

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And after last year convenings, especially
the national platform convening, where this

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was greatly discussed, they actually stepped
back and took a different tact and they wanted

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to identify proposals that would, quote, move
the needle on some of the shared goals that

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were discussed.

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Guidelines were tightened up.

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Priorities came out of those meetings.

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We moved to two submission excuse me, two
submission deadlines, and then within per

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year so that you didn't have to wait an entire
year.

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If you happened to miss that one single deadline
in that year.

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We also moved to a twophase process, and this
addresses I'm sorry Marsha is not here.

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This addressed some of the points that we've
heard earlier today about doing the 40page

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or excuse me the fourmonthlong proposal and
then you get it in and if people don't understand

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it, there's four months of your work so we
moved to a twophase process where you submit

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essentially a twopage praise.

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That goes out for review and then those, that
after the review process, those that are identified,

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a subset of them will go on to the full proposal.

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So it's a way for us both to lower the level
investment to get your projects in to the

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work flow, in to the review by our outside
reviewers, and also really identify hopefully

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better proposals that come in because those
fourmonth proposals are often 80 to 100 pages

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each and we also want to be nice to our reviewers
who do fabulous work.

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One of the things that we did want to tell
you, and we this is a hope at this point in

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time, is that we hope to move to that twopage
excuse me, twophase proposal process and two

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proposals per year on the LB21 for the coming
year.

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It is not for sure yet.

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We have to get this cleared by the Office
of Management and Budget.

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There's a it's going to them soon with a 30day
public comment process, so if you're interested

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in that, you can do that.

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And we should know sometime during the summer
whether we'll be able to do that.

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And of course, then, we would post the notice
of funding opportunities to the Web site,

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so check back with us this summer as to whether
we'd be able to do so or not.

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Some final thank yous, first of all to Crosby
and the staff here at the Kansas City Public

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Library for letting us use this amazing, fantastic
space.

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[Applause]
And thanks to all of you, especially, who

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have joined us here, in person, as well as
on twitter.

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I think the discussion I can say on behalf
of my colleagues, was more than we thought

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we would get.

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It's fantastic.

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It was incredibly engaging.

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And it gives us a lot of food for thought
and perhaps makes us leave with very full

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heads today.

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So we're delighted, and we thank you for your
time and your very good questions and the

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fantastic discussion that came out of that.

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We wish you guys all safe travels.

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For those of you that have to travel to get
home and as well we hope that you will all

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join us for the next IMLS convening, IMLS
focus convening, which will be June 2nd.

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It will be hosted at the Los Angeles Public
Library and the topic for that one is "Engaging

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Communities."

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So again, the IMLS focus Web site will allow
you to live stream that.

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You will see the list of participants that
will be at that, and of course all of the

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same reports and archived webcasts will be
available there, too.

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So thank you again very much.

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[Applause]