CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY
LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY ACT
PITCH-AN-IDEA FISCAL YEAR 2015-2016
Instructions – Please read carefully!Welcome to Pitch-an-Idea! The purpose of this form is to give the State Library an overview of your idea before our conference call. This is not a full-blown proposal. Think of this as your two-minute elevator speech about the project. Please answer all of the questions below with no more than two pages and using 12 point font. Email the completed form to Mickie Potter at by 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Incomplete or late submissions will not be considered.
Contact Information
1. / Library/Organization:
2. / Project Coordinator Name & Title:
3. / Business Phone Number: / 4. / Email Address:
5. / Director Name & Title:
6. / Email Address:
7. / Mailing Address: / City: / Zip:
Idea Information
8. / Draft Title:
9. / Amount Requested: / $0
10. / What are you trying to do with this project and why? Describe how you will accomplish this in the 12-month time frame.
11. / Please include a budget outline which includes a tentative breakdown of how these funds will be used, including potential for in-kind and cash match funding.
12. / Check one category that best describes the project. (see descriptions on the next page)
21st Century Skills / 22nd Century Tools
Building Digital Success / Community Connections
Literacy / Workforce Development
Early Learning
What need are you trying to meet?
Describe how this project fits into California State Library’s “LSTA Five-Year Plan – 2013-2017”?
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Your director and/or a library administrator must be supportive of this project and must participate in the phone call with the State Library.
CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY
LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY ACT
PITCH-AN-IDEA FISCAL YEAR 2015-2016
CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS
21st Century Skills &/or 22nd Century Tools: Provide training and access to information for library users and staff so that they have the skills needed to be successful in the 21st Century, including emerging technologies, new information and communication tools that connect Californians to library content and services.
Building Digital Success: Develop new services, tools and resources to help libraries meet the digital literacy training needs of their communities.
Community Connections: Support libraries’ changing populations by effectively responding to specifically identified community needs or interests, such as life stages, volunteerism, small business development, community engagement, veterans, language and cultural needs or local history.
Literacy: Develop and deliver library services that support literacy programs which encourage reading and community.
Workforce Development: Develop and deliver library services and programs that support individuals and communities in skills needed for workforce success.
Early Learning: Support pre-K programs (ages 0-5) that increase school readiness and provide summer learning opportunities.
CHILDREN’S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE:
If your public, elementary or secondary school library is applying for a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the California State Library that includes purchasing Internet service, computers, ebook readers, tablets or any other device that could access the Internet, federal law requires your library be in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act. This means your library must provide a means to block images that constitute obscenity, child pornography and prevent minors from obtaining access to material that is harmful to them. All library computers, including staff computers, must have a technology protection measure installed and running that blocks obscene/child pornography images.
ELIGIBILITY
Under the Library Services and Technology Act, the State Library has discretion over the eligibility of applicants, the qualification of projects and the award of funds. The general guidelines are outlined below:
1. The term “library” includes:
· A public library;
· An elementary or secondary school library;
· An academic library;
· A research library, which for the purposes of this subtitle means a library that makes publicly available library services and materials suitable for scholarly research and not otherwise available to the public; and is not an integral part of an institution of higher education.
2. A library should meet the following eligibility standards:
· A written explicit mission statement and service objectives.
· A fixed location in California.
· Established hours of service.
· An organized collection of information and materials accessible for use by its primary clientele.
· Designated, onsite, paid staff for library services. At least one staff person shall have a master’s degree in library or information science or a California library media teacher credential issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. (Equivalent graduate education or demonstrated professional experience may be substituted for this requirement.)
· An established funding base. (The local board of governance or the appropriate administrative authority shall agree for each academic library, public library, school library and special library, not to reduce funding for library services as a result of receiving a grant.)
The term “library consortium” means any local, statewide, regional, interstate or international cooperative association of library entities which provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of school, public, academic and special libraries and information centers, for improved services for the clientele of such library entities.
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