[OYAN] LSTA Award Letter Has Arrived

[MAURER Jennifer * SLO]

Please pardon this cross-posting. Hi, folks. I'm sharing the latest update<https://www.oregon.gov/library/Pages/Updates.aspx> about the situation with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and our allotment of 2025 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds, which is basically for July 2025 through June 2026. See the email below from Wendy Cornelisen, State Librarian. - Best, Jen (Jen Maurer, School Library Consultant, State Library of Oregon, jennifer.maurer at slo.oregon.gov<mailto:jennifer.maurer at slo.oregon.gov>)
From: ola at memberclicks-mail.net <ola at memberclicks-mail.net> On Behalf Of Wendy Cornelisen
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 4:22 PM
To: MAURER Jennifer * SLO <jennifer.maurer at slo.oregon.gov>
Subject: [oasl-all] LSTA Award Letter has arrived

As expected, the full LSTA 2025 award letter has arrived! Please see attached for confirmation of the FY26 amount: $2,593,238.

In a previous message<https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/libs-or/2025-May/022892.html>, I shared our contingency plan if all we received was a half award of $1.3 million. Here's the plan now that we have the full LSTA 2025 award legally obligated:


  *   The 12 State Library staff positions paid with LSTA funds will be funded through June 2026.
  *   Statewide services provided by the State Library will continue through June 2026: Answerland, Northwest Digital Heritage, Oregon Library Staff Academy (Niche Academy), Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS), and statewide iREAD summer reading access.
  *   The annual subscription to Gale databases will continue through June 2026. The academic library database subsidies will be distributed in late summer/early fall 2025.
  *   We will issue award letters to statewide LSTA grant projects, going through June 2026: the Sage Library System courier; Oregon Battle of the Books; Oregon Digital Library Consortium; OLA Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Antiracism Committee (EDIAC) podcast; professional development scholarships from EDIAC; REFORMA Oregon projects; OSLIS special projects; Tribal newspaper and Chemawa document digitization by the University of Oregon; and Northwest Archivists Native American Collections Roundtable conference scholarships.
  *   Regular continuing education subscriptions and programs such as PCI Webinars, Lyrasis, Tech-Talk, and Infopeople will be funded.
  *   We will have further funds set aside as contingency, which may be used for programs and grants depending on how the future LSTA funding picture develops. These funds may end up covering those 12 State Library staff positions from July 1, 2026-Sept 30, 2026.
Even with our full 2025 LSTA award, we will not issue competitive grant awards in the coming 2025-26 fiscal year. We want to reserve these funds due to funding concerns for FY2027 and beyond.

These actions depend on our continuing ability to draw down funds from IMLS. As I mentioned on May 31<https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/libs-or/2025-May/022905.html>, we have already drawn down some LSTA 2025 funds, which is a good sign.

What about July 2026?

LSTA 2026 funding - the money we'd spend in FY27, from July 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027- is still uncertain. The federal budget bill recently passed by the House does not include any funds for LSTA, with only $6 million in "shutdown" money for IMLS. This fall, Congress will likely debate the federal Museum and Library Services Act reauthorization<https://t.congressweb.com/w/?CSOVTMEBCW>, which created IMLS and the LSTA program. We'll continue to work with our partners to highlight the ways that IMLS benefits Oregonians, and the entire nation.

Thank you for your support and partnership in this important work as we continue to navigate these hard times.

Take care,
Wendy

Wendy Cornelisen (she, her, hers)
State Librarian
State Library of Oregon
wendy.cornelisen at slo.oregon.gov<mailto:wendy.cornelisen at slo.oregon.gov>
Office: 503-378-4367| Mobile 971-375-3992
www.oregon.gov/library<http://www.oregon.gov/library>
[Title: State Library of Oregon]

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