[Michlib-l] ALA COVID Library Relief Fund - Application Deadline April 21

[Jennifer Dean]

Please see below for links to the application, a recording of the
information session, and a Powerpoint presentation with more information.

Jennifer Dean

MLA Board of Directors and ALA Councilor, 2021-2022


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From: Michael Dowling via ALA Connect
Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:57 AM
Subject: ALA Chapter Leaders : ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application
Deadline April 21
To: <jldean at umich.edu>


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Michael Dowling
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To Chapter Leaders:

Thanks for forwarding to your member lists!  Michael

*ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application Deadline April 21*

The American Library Association (ALA) is making available *$1.55M* in
emergency relief grants to more than *75 libraries* this year that have
experienced substantial economic hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ALA COVID Library Relief Fund
<https://www.ala.org/aboutala/ala-covid-library-relief-fund> invites:

Public, School, Academic, Tribal, and Correctional libraries across the
United States and US Territories can apply for grants of *$20,000.*

APPLICATIONS <https://libraryrelief.grantplatform.com/> are accepted online
through *April 21, 2022 *(11:59PM Central Time)

These funds are intended to bolster library operations and services
including broadening technology access, developing collections, providing
digital instruction, staffing, and expanding outreach, as well as
maintaining and amplifying existing service strategies or adding new ones
to extend impact through the end of 2022.

Funds will support libraries' ability to provide their users with the
information services and digital access they need to retain or secure
socio-economic mobility during a time of shift and upheaval. Libraries
serving low income and rural communities, or communities that are
predominately Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, and People of Color, are
especially encouraged to apply.



*A recording of the ALA COVID Library Relief Information Session is now
available
<https://ala-events.zoom.us/rec/share/0laRLN8RhSpI-YHrMK1SGQzzULG0Q2acBV06-1Z3rwLe4iD88zKpDETuEfiIC67U.ZSn4yw2VeksG00zL?startTime=1648148355000>*
(one
hour).



In addition to the recording, you can find the slides of the PowerPoint
presentation here
<https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/cro/2022%20Covid%20Fund%20Information%20Sessin%20March%2024.pdf>



Please contact us if you have any questions at cro at ala.org.

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Michael Dowling
Director, International Relations
American Library Association
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-- 
Jennifer L. Dean - PhD, MLIS
Director, Frances Willson Thompson Library
University of Michigan-Flint
jldean at umich.edu

*Pronouns: she/her/hers*
*Pronounced: JEH-nih-fuhr deen*
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