<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">We've had the same issues and complaints from our libraries. We've tried both direct purchase and subawards for our libraries. The only items we have successfully purchased for libraries is tech. However, our parent agency insists we maintain ownership of the devices because we purchased them, which is a headache. We then tried subawards, but that option requires a great deal of paperwork. Currently, we operate on a hybrid model: half the items are purchased by us and directly shipped to libraries, while the other half are handled through subawards with associated paperwork. I would love to hear ideas from other state libraries and join if a meeting takes place. This topic is a big deal from my leadership team!</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM Reish, Karren (MDE) via lstac <<a href="mailto:lstac@omls.oregon.gov">lstac@omls.oregon.gov</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"><div class="msg-7212931000813171231">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am also interested in this and have the same issues/questions. Would anyone be willing to meet to discuss whose worked on how to deal with this? I’m going to have to restart our summer grant program for next summer and would love an easier
way to do it for both myself and my libraries. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Baffoni, Nicolette (OLIS) via lstac<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 14, 2025 4:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> LSTA Coordinators Listserv <<a href="mailto:lstac@omls.oregon.gov" target="_blank">lstac@omls.oregon.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [lstac] Easy process for ordering lots of supplies for libraries?!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">We're considering providing more prescriptive summer reading programming to our libraries with our LSTA funds to replace our current non-competitive programming grants for hands-on learning experiences.
Those grants are only for $900 and many of our libraries feel they are too much work for the money. We are considering developing something like program kits/programs in a box, with a program description/script/lesson designed by us, the program supplies and
perhaps some supplemental books to support the program and ideas for how to use them in the context of the program, etc. etc. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">If we give the libraries the funds to purchase our predetermined supplies and books, we still have to do that as grants with the same state-mandated process and administrative burden that they
have now, minus the creative thinking of designing their own programs. That helps some but I worry libraries would have their same old issues with using our GMS and reporting and requesting funds that we have now. We would love to just purchase it all ourselves
and ship it out to libraries, but then we're looking at difficult procurement processes, going out to bid for supplies, and so on. In the past we built circulating kits for ourselves by giving a grant to the large public library that operates our statewide
databases; they did the ordering for us, but we found that process frustrating since we had no control over the ordering process, no insight into shipping, and in the end we found communication was lacking and that the library just generally lacked the capacity
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">I know procurement and purchasing rules are different in every state, but has anyone ever done anything like this and figured out a fairly simple, reasonable, perhaps creative way to get supplies
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