[lstac] LSTA subgrant for conference & travel?

Tue May 27 11:49:39 PDT 2025

WA does Professional Development subgrants on a reimbursement basis, up to $6,000/system and $1,000/individual per federal fiscal year. We had a request for a conference in BC last year and asked about domestic preference requirements. Cindy said that we should include documentation that showed that it would be more cost effective or more beneficial than a similar conference in the US, which was easily done since WA borders Canada and the grantee could drive there. https://washstatelib.libguides.com/pdgrants
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Subject: Re: [lstac] LSTA subgrant for conference & travel?

Hi to all,

Illinois has offered scholarships in the distant past using LSTA as the funding source.  We currently do not offer a specific grant for individuals to go to CE events, but we do offer programming grants where the applicant may budget grant funds to attend or present at appropriate conferences.   Travel is allowed – “as a prudent person would do.”

This year, a subgrant requested an amendment of their budget to use grant funds to attend a conference in Canada.  We said no – and made the decision that we would not approve international travel.

As a sidebar of this conversation, I’m curious if anyone else has had requests to use grant funds for international travel to CE events and how you responded.

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Hello,
I'm relatively new here at the Utah State Library and am wondering about the latest LSTA guidelines on travel for library conferences for subgrantees. It seems we've always used state funds to award travel and training, vs LSTA. We're very much in the exploration stage at this point, and would appreciate experience and input. Could anyone please provide some details and a link or two?
Specifically, the concept is for a grant in which funds would be for Utah tribal librarians/representatives (and possibly a state library representative) to attend an out of state conference, which we would likely tie to a portion of the LSTA grant being for tribal library enhancement related to the conference. For example (completely made up numbers): $3,000 library enhancement project award plus associated travel to a conference of up to $2,000 for a total of $5,000 award...
Thanks in advance,
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