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Institute of Museum and Library Services 2020
Grants to States All States Conference May

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13, 2020 Virtual
Proceedings by: CASET Associates, Ltd. caset@caset.net

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Agenda Item: Conference Wrap-Up and Closing
Remarks

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MS.

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DEVOE: Thanks, Michele, and thanks to all
our presenters today.

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That was such a wonderful presentation from
all of your on the ground experiences, trying

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to live through both disasters of yore and
our current pandemic.

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We’re going to bring up our conference wrap-up
and closing remarks slide deck.

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We’re going to roll right into the session
even though it’s not 4:40, we’re going

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to just keep going and you’ll probably get
some time back for your day.

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We have a few reminders as we’re changing
out the slide decks.

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First of all, I’m going to put up a 
conference survey while I make some of my

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announcements so that you have time to sort
of grab the link.

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It’s clickable apparently, from within Adobe
Connect.

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And we also have a QR code on the screen and
our producer is sending out the link as well.

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So during this time as we’re wrapping up
we would love for you to just go ahead and

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take the survey around the conference and
how you felt about it while it’s really

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fresh in your mind.

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So I’m just going to talk a little bit announcement
style for a while as you’re bringing that

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up.

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We will also send out this link following
the conference through an email so that those

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that aren’t tuned in right at this moment
also have a chance to respond to it.

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So just some reminders, we’re going to be
following up on any questions that were asked

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during the course of the presentations that
we didn’t have time to answer during the

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presentation, or for whatever reason we didn’t
get to answer them.

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We are in the process of already sending recognition
certificates to those states who got shout

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outs yesterday, so we will, if you have not
already received them, we will be sending

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those to you.

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We still have a few presentations that have
not made it into our website.

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It was deliberate on our part so that you
would have more of a surprise aspect to the

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states’ presentations today.

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And so we will be filling in those gaps over
the next few days.

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And then the recordings from all of the presentations,
I don’t have a time frame yet, but we will

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get those up and link to the website as soon
as we can.

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They have to go through a process so that
they’re accessible and they meet all of

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the federal requirements, so do give us a
little time, but we will get those recordings

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up very shortly.

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Speaking of recordings, in my first presentation
yesterday, I mentioned that there would be

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tomorrow a webinar on our CARES Act discretionary
grants that are newly available.

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There is a webinar available at 2:00 PM eastern,
and we’ve learned that it has reached capacity

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at this point, but if you were still hoping
to register and get in on that, don’t worry,

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we’re going to have the recording up for
that one posted shortly after the fact as

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well.

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So even if you can’t get into the registration
at this point, know that that will be posted

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shortly.

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There was some mention in the chat during
one of the breaks about how nice it would

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have been if all of the attendees could have
had their cameras on and have a way to interact

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with each other.

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We didn’t try to press our luck with that
during these two days, but we do have additional

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technology available, and we have already
thought it would be really nice to get all

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the LSTA coordinators together that would
like to and have a very informal gathering,

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which is optional, there won’t be any critical
information shared at that gathering, it will

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just be a way for you to get together, and
we would be happy to facilitate that.

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So we’re going to give you a little breather
between all the conference content that you’ve

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been sitting through this week, and some time,
so we will let you know once we get a date

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and a time set for that, and we will see how
it goes.

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It will be a trial run.

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I want to say a few thank you’s.

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And so I’m going to move off of this screen
right now, but you have the Survey Monkey

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link in your questions area.

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In addition to connecting with each other,
we did not have a chance for you to connect

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with your program officer as we traditionally
do when we’re at an in-person conference,

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and so we didn’t have those office hours.

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But the good news is that the in person office
hours were only ever ten minutes by necessity,

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and so we have an opportunity now again with
some of our technology available to us for

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you to each out to your program officer and
setup a time of your choosing and setup a

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length of your choosing, you probably need
a half hour to check in with your program

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officer, but if you want a little more time
we’ll accommodate that.

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So we’ll set it up as you reach out to us,
but we would love to connect with you.

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And of course Dennis is still on paternity
leave, but we expect him back in the month

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of June, and so if you have a burning desire
to meet in person before June comes then if

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you’re one of Dennis’s states you can
reach out to me, and I will setup some office

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hours with you.

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We have some thank you’s.

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Making this program happen, it’s not just
the Grants to States staff, although they

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are super instrumental in pulling this all
this together, and it’s not just Matt and

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Lisa, our wonderful speakers from the Office
of Impact Assessment and Learning.

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We had a couple of executive sponsors who
gave us the blessing to go ahead and have

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this conference, both when it was in person,
and that is a much more expensive proposition

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that comes out of our administrative budget
and we have to justify it every year, and

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now that it’s virtual it still has some
costs attached to it, so we’re so thankful

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to Cyndee and to Scott for believing in us
and allowing us to have this conference, which

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we know is so important.

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We had contract support, certainly in the
lead up to the in-person conference and then

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when it pivoted and we had to go virtual,
so Chris Mettee was busy making all of the

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paperwork happen for us.

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And of course we never put any slides up on
the web that have anything legal in them at

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all unless they’ve been reviewed by our
legal team, and in particular, Cam Trowbridge

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was wonderful in turning this around really
quickly with everything on their legal plate

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right now with all the CARES Act things that
are happening.

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And I didn’t put our webmaster Talisa Parker
on this slide, but she always turns around

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the content super fast so that once we have
slide decks ready that they are ready for

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your consumption.

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So we thank her, too.

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We have so many awesome volunteers from the
states to help us have today’s content.

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So thank you.

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I know not all of you are still on the call,
but to Natalie Cole, Jen Nelson, Catherine

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Prince, Abi Waldrupe, Mary Soucie, Peggy Cadigan,
Eileen Morales, Michael Dennison and Cindy

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Fesemyer, really awesome explanations of the
kinds of projects that you’re doing with

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discretionary funding, and just giving people
a window into what that looks like.

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We also thank our latest three speakers, Rob
Favini, Denise Lyons, and Mark Smith for their

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just invaluable perspectives on disaster preparedness.

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And we look forward to putting both of these
groups’ slide decks up on the website so

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that you can revisit them.

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And I see that we have some FEMA information
that has already gone out through the chat.

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So they’re already sharing additional valuable
information.

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We have a team behind the scenes that helped
us with our virtual support, and goodness

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knows we would not have been able to do this
without them.

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So to Steph Hines and Matt Burdetsky from
Capital Meeting Planning, thank you so much

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for making this possible for us, and to our
Envolvemedia producer Mitchell Jun, who has

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just been running the show like a champ and
coaching us through all the intricacies of

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Adobe Connect, which for many of us with little
experience in this platform we are so grateful

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for them, high fives all around.

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And last but not least, we thank you for hanging
in there with us in a new and different format

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this year.

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We were not hoping that we would have to do
a conference like this, but now that we have,

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your presence and your questions have made
this conference a success in our book.

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And so we thank you, we look forward to being
together with you in the future, in person

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like we traditionally do, and until then may
you be healthy, may you be safe, and may you

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continue being superheroes in your communities.

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Thanks everyone.

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This concludes the conference.

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(Conference adjourned at 4:40 p.m.)