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hello and welcome to the applicant
webinar for the native american library

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services basic grant program
my name is anthony smith associate

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deputy director for the office of
library services discretionary programs

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in this webinar i'll be providing
information about imls and the native

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american library services basic grant
program

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we will review eligibility go over the
application process the different

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application components and also offer
you a few tips and suggestions

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our goal is to help make the application
process as easy as possible while

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helping to ensure that all application
requirements are being met

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now for those of you who are new
the institute of museum and library

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services is an independent grant making
agency and the primary source of federal

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support for the nation's libraries and
museums

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imls helps ensure that all americans
have access to museum and library

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services all across the country
our primary function is grant making

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however we also host
convenings conduct research and publish

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information about museums and libraries
in service to user communities

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eligibility for imls grants varies and
can depend upon the specific program

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our vision and mission statements were
adopted as part of the agency's current

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strategic plan
where both emphasized that imls is here

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to support museums and libraries with
the work you do to serve your specific

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communities

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the imls strategic plan identifies goals
that help us

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achieve our vision and accomplish our
mission

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in goal 1 imls seeks to advance engaged
learning opportunities for library and

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museum users of all ages and interests
it is also supports the professional

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development of the museum and library
workforce

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in gold 2 imls promotes community
engagement in libraries and museums

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including inclusive engagement across
diverse audiences and community

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collaboration
in goal 3 imls supports collection care

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and management activities and promotes
access to museum and library collections

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in terms of our authorization and budget
imls was reauthorized in 2018

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by the museum and library services act
the imls 2021 fiscal year budget is

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257 million and we are currently
operating under a continuing resolution

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resolution for fiscal year 2022
almost 5.3 million of that is allotted

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for native american basic and
enhancement and native hawaiian library

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services grants

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so that brings us to the native american
library service basic grant program

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this program provides support for
library operations and services

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the deadline to apply is march 1st 2022
these grants are non-competitive

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one-year grants
with awards made anywhere between six

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and ten thousand dollars
of this amount up to three thousand

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dollars can be used for eligible
professional development which includes

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travel
as well as different types of library

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assessment activities
although it is not required

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these awards support any and all
existing library operations and as well

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as new library services such as
expanding collections

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new staff support technology
implementation and other costs that

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directly benefit your library user
community

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as long as you meet eligibility
requirements and submit all of the

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application documents by the debt
deadline you'll receive funding

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in 2021 we awarded one point a little
over 1.8 million to

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indian tribes alaska native villages and

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regional and village corporations
all federally recognized indian tribes

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and alaska native villages or
corporations are eligible to apply

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so who's eligible for this program
indian tribes are eligible up to apply

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for funding under the native american
library services basic grant program for

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purposes of funding under this program
indian tribe means any tribe ban nation

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or other organized group or community
including any alaska native village

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regional corporation or village
corporation which is recognized by the

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secretary of interior as eligible for
special programs and services provided

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by the united states to indians because
of their status as indians

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a list of eligible entities is available
from the bureau of indian affairs

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again the tribe village or corporation
itself must apply for the grant

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a school tribal college department of
education or other entity

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that might contain the library cannot
apply for the tribe on behalf of the

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tribe
although entities like these can be

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partners and administer a grant for the
tribe

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the assumption is such a partnership is
that the tribal community that applies

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for the grant is the is directly served
and benefits from the grant activities

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that are carried out by the partner

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for these grants the tribe must have an
existing library to be eligible

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the library must have a regularly
scheduled hours

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staff and materials available for
library users in order to receive

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funding
the staff can be full-time or part-time

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paid or volunteer

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okay next we'll talk about the
application process itself

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and so everything you need for the
application process is available on our

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website at
www.imls.gov

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under the apply for a grant tab
once you click on the native american

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library services basic grant for fiscal
year 2022

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notice a funding opportunity
you'll find the funding opportunity

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number that you can enter into
grants.gov

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you'll want to jot down and remember the
funding opportunity number and as

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circled on the screen in red
this year it is nag hyphen basic hyphen

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fy22

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here's a few things you'll want to do in
advance of applying

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and download and review the notice of
funding

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you'll also want to download the
application forms listed in the notice

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of funding
if you don't have a duns number you'll

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want to start this process right away
since it can take several weeks to

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process
you'll want to confirm that your tribe

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has an active sam registration
if not this can be done at samsam.gov

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finally
you'll need to confirm if the tribe has

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an existing grants.gov account
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one will need to be created

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again you'll need all three at duns
sam.gov registration and then the last

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grants.gov registration
remember this can take a significant

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amount of time so please check
on these early

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in order for an application to be
considered for funding it must be

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received by midnight eastern time on
march 1st

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applications received after the deadline
cannot be considered

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so let's review us the specific
application components that are required

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for the application
our notice of funding includes a table

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that has all of the application
components what kind of format they need

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to be submitted as and
which file name to use when you're

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submitting your application package
use this list as a checklist of all the

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documents you will need to submit on
march 1st

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or by march 1st you want to make sure
your application is complete so that

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it's not rejected because you missed or
forgot any required documents

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the native american library services
basic grant application has

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six required application documents in
one

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conditionally required document
the application cover form or sf424s

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the imls supplementary information form
or sif

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and the imls library discretionary
program information form

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which are are all completed during the
grants.gov submission process

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a library services plan
which is a narrative that you create

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which can be up to three pages in length
the imls budget form and the performance

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measurement plan which you can download
from the imls website

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and if your plan includes the creation
of any kind of digital products

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you must write a digital products plan
and this plan is conditionally required

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because not all projects will create
digital

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products finally as a reminder all forms
must be submitted as pdf documents

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now because grants.gov is a system that
exists outside of imls

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we we cannot help you if you have
problems with downloading materials or

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submitting materials on the site
the grants.gov support team however is

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very helpful and
who we turn to if help is needed

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they're available 24 hours a day and can
be reached by email or by phone

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if you have any problems with grants.gov
reach out to the support team directly

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on this slide are links to the different
resources grants.gov has available to

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help you
particularly with

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using their workspace function
we have a link here for

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one youtube video but there are a number
of different videos all about three to

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four minutes long that show you how
different parts of the workspace

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function
we recommend you view those to

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understand more
there are a number of benefits for using

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the workspace
one is that multiple people from your

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organization can work on an application
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another is that the next year
when you go to apply in subsequent years

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you can reuse what you put in the
previous year so you won't be starting

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from from scratch
also all the activity is documented so

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you can see if someone submitted a
document which documents and if the

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entire application package was submitted
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you'll also get a tracking number
that you can share with us in case

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anything unusual happens and we need to
to

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investigate or
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when you're on the grants.gov site
use the funding opportunity number you

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found in the imls notice
a funding opportunity for basic grants

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and again
circled in red on the display this is

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nag hyphen basic hyphen fy22
this number will get you the application

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the package materials that you need to
start the process

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download the application package by
clicking on the package tab on the right

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and then clicking apply you must use the
grants.gov workspace platform to submit

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your application

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so this is the sf 424 s which stands for
short form which is one of the most

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important parts of your application the
information you put on this form

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including the name of the authorizing
official is entered into our grants

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management database
these

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staff are the contacts for the award and
the people who are authorized to make

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financial decisions on behalf of the
tribe

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if once you receive your award any of
these people leave or are replaced

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it's really important
that you let us know asap using our new

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grants management system
egms reach so that we can update your

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tribe's information
you can complete the sf420

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sf424s
in grants.gov directly

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the supplementary information form is
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a part of grand style it's a grants.gov
form found in the application package

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instructions for completing the form can
be found there

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but please
make sure you

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just check yes or no and provide the
information requested

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you'll want to be sure that the funds
requested

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match your budget and
library service plan

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budget summary

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so there's three different places where
your budget information would be listed

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first would be in the supplementary
information form

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but then you would also have that
information in your budget and your

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budget summary
do not include cost share or indirect

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costs
include one or two sentences that

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summarize
your library services plan

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the library program information form is
a grant also a grants.gov form found in

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the application package
federally recognized tribes are not

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required to answer the organizational
financial information but please put a

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zero under total revenue and total
expenses

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for each year to avoid error messages
when you submit the form

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select one of the three imls agency
level goals with which your project best

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aligns
select native american library services

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basic grants as the grant program

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your library services plan should
describe

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no more than
three pages what you plan to do with the

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grant funds and discuss
what you are focusing on during the year

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but you should also explain why you
think the work is important

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if you plan to carry out any
professional development or library

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service assessment activities you'll
also need to describe these activities

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here in the library services plan
it should also include information about

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how you will carry out your plan to make
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it's successful and what results you
plan to achieve

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if you're new to federal award making
there are some new standards for

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measuring performance of federally
funded grant activities

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to meet uh this this new requirement for
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you'll also need to include information
about how you will measure performance

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in terms of effectiveness
and timeliness

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and you'll also need to identify and
describe in the

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in in your application what data you
will collect how often and from what

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source in order to produce performance
measures for effectiveness and timer

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timeliness
make sure to include a budget summary

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that describes all budget items included
in the imls budget form

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all the information you provide here
should match what is in your budget

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we'll have to check to make sure
uh you don't go over the 3 000

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limit for educational and assessment
activities

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so the description will be very helpful
and again please make sure this and all

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your other documents are pdfs
workspace does not convert documents

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automatically
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as you work within grants.gov using
their workspace function

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it's important that you
create the pdf documents because again

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the software will not do that conversion
for you

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okay so you can also include
cost to attend or present at conferences

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costs for
continuing education or other training

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and other related travel
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hotel per diem that sort of thing
temporary staff cost when

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regular staff are attending courses et
cetera consultant fees

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for
on-site professional library assessment

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and and that includes technology and
digitization

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these types of activities can be funded
for up to three that three thousand

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dollars and is something you have the
option to include if you wish to take

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advantage of and keeping in mind that
ten thousand dollars is always the

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maximum for any native american basic
award

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if you do decide to use the professional
development library assessment option

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you'll need to describe this
in your library services plan

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okay so the native american library
service basic grant program would use

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the following two performance measures
uh that i mentioned just a little while

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ago as a basis for understanding the
level of performance

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the grant program as well as each
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for effectiveness
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the performance measurement plan should
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your performance as a grantee
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sample statements for each measure
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and limit your performance measurement
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to just one page and again save
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this this is a standard budget form it's
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the total amount you request which you
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budget form
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costs for each section as well as the
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indirect costs are not allowed for basic
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them and you can download this form
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uh once you
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the basic grants
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permanent staff salary and benefits
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project staff
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development
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library software library furnishings and
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special programming internet services um
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and in any other types of costs
these examples are found in the notice

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of funding opportunity section d6
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expense is allowable
that's not in the list

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in the notice of funding

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just let us know and we'll we'll try to
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if your project includes any digital
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data sets be sure to write a digital
products plan this is the optional

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document i mentioned earlier remember
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it's conditionally required which means
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digital product or content that you're
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these are some
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products

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you know
oral histories that you've converted to

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to digital files
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apps for library patrons
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students images of community meetings
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possibilities exist so please make sure
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digital products plan if you if you need
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remember your application must be
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you should hear back from us in july
when you will receive the official award

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notification
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begin on august 1st and run for the next
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okay next we'll provide some tips to
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first register early you must have the
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an active sam.gov registration
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registration you you must have a duns
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and you must have an active sam.gov
registration to register with grants.gov

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so you need to have the functional
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basic grant application to imls
these steps take time and they're

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sequential
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you to start right away
remember that your sam.gov registration

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expires
each year and you have to renew it

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now you can log into sam.gov at any time
and find out your status and i would

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certainly recommend doing that as soon
as possible

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so start start right away organizing
what you need to apply and understanding

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who in your organization can help
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with
the registration and certain aspects who

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can confirm confirm dones
who can

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confirm sam
and grant grants.gov registration

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and remember to save all your documents
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um
grass.gov can't can't convert them for

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you so you'll have to
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submit as part of the submission process
upload your application files to

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grants.gov prior to the deadline i i
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the deadline in case something
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but just setting a target
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the march 1 deadline use grants.gov
workspace it's a great way to organize

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the work of the application process in
one work environment and with

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any of your work partners who have a
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submission process

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be sure to double check the uploaded
files against the table of application

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components
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the no fo as we call it
again remember there's there's the table

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in
in the notice of funding that will serve

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as a checklist
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that need to be submitted so you'll want
to use that to make sure you haven't

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forgotten anything
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may have inadvertently left something
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you can resubmit before the deadline so
if this if it does if you do notice that

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you've submitted the application and you
you you notice that you may have left

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something out you can resubmit before
the deadline if you need to so keep that

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in mind as well
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this might be helpful yeah
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it could be very helpful for you

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okay so for uh questions about
eligibility um your

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your your library service plan and
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uh the digital products plan your budget
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allowability of cost
don't hesitate to contact me directly

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there's my contact information
for questions about application

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requirements and deadlines
be sure

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to communicate those to
maeve or sheena and we've provided their

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contact information as well
thank you for listening in and we look

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forward
to hearing from you and receiving your

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application and as always best wishes
from imls