<div dir="ltr">Thanks so much everyone! I'm happy to hear that the funds are being used this way, and to have your detailed examples. I put together a proposal for using LSTA funds, including your examples, and it looks like we're going to roll with setting this up. USL has a strong commitment to supporting Utah tribes and we finally have the staff capacity to better support our relationships.<div>I really appreciate all your help.</div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Melanie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM Maura Walsh <<a href="mailto:mwalsh@njstatelib.org">mwalsh@njstatelib.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">We had an international travel request a few years for a subgrant and for a number of state library staff …</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">We had to say no because our state would prefer we not use any funds to pay for out of state travel.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">(but we did have 1 staff person get approved for international travel 1 time many years ago, and the audits and auditors flagged it more than 1 time for additional review – I don’t think we would approve
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<p>Hi to all,</p>
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<p>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.” </p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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?</p>
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<p>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...</p>
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