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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As expected, the full LSTA 2025 award letter has arrived! Please see attached for confirmation of the FY26 amount:<b> $2,593,238.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In a <a href="https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/libs-or/2025-May/022892.html">
previous message</a>, 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:
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The 12 State Library staff positions paid with LSTA funds will be funded through June 2026.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Regular continuing education subscriptions and programs such as PCI Webinars, Lyrasis,
<i>Tech-Talk</i>, and Infopeople will be funded.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.
<i>These funds may end up covering those 12 State Library staff positions from July 1, 2026-Sept 30, 2026</i>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<br>
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<i>These actions depend on our continuing ability to draw down funds from IMLS.</i> As I
<a href="https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/libs-or/2025-May/022905.html">mentioned on May 31</a>, we have already drawn down some LSTA 2025 funds, which is a good sign.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What about July 2026? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">LSTA 2026 funding - the money we’d spend in FY27, from July 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027- is still uncertain.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The federal budget bill recently passed by the House does not include
<b><i>any funds</i></b> for LSTA, with only $6 million in “shutdown” money for IMLS. This fall, Congress will likely debate
</span><a href="https://t.congressweb.com/w/?CSOVTMEBCW">the federal Museum and Library Services Act reauthorization</a>,
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you for your support and partnership in this important work as we continue to navigate these hard times.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt">Take care<span style="color:black">,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><span style="color:black">Wendy <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Wendy Cornelisen (she, her, hers)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">State Librarian<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">State Library of Oregon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><a href="mailto:wendy.cornelisen@slo.oregon.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">wendy.cornelisen@slo.oregon.gov</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">Office: 503-378-4367| Mobile 971-375-3992<br>
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/library"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.oregon.gov/library</span></a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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