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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello! Some of you may have seen this on the libs-or email discussion list, but I know many directors at our smallest libraries are not on that list and, as indicated in the email below, the American Library
Association is highly encouraging small and rural libraries to apply for this grant.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Directly below is the email that went out on the Association of Rural and Small Library email discussion list. At the bottom of this email is the information about this grant opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Questions about the grant? Contact
</span>t<span style="color:#1F497D">he ALA Public Programs Office: 312-280-5045 or 800-545-2433, x 5045 or email:
</span><a href="mailto:publicprograms@ala.org">publicprograms@ala.org</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> ARSL_Membership [<a href="mailto:ARSL_MEMBERSHIP@LISTSERV.AMRMS.COM">mailto:ARSL_MEMBERSHIP@LISTSERV.AMRMS.COM</a>]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I had several conversations with representatives from ALA including past president Maureen Sullivan who highly encourage small and rural libraries to apply for this program. This is an initial cohort who will help,ALA
develop tools for future cohorts to utilize. They would like to be sure that the tools are well developed for both large and small libraries. <br>
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I have attended two workshops covering the basics of the Harwood Institute's work with libraries and I have been impressed with their results. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please contact them with any questions. I highly encourage your consideration in applying for this unique opportunity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Andrea Berstler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: ALA announces Libraries Transforming Communities Public Innovator Cohort grant opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">Public libraries invited to apply by March 6 to receive $8,000 grant and 18 months of professional development in community
engagement</span></strong><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office is accepting applications for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Libraries
Transforming Communities</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Public Innovators Cohort, an 18-month, team-based professional development opportunity for public libraries, developed by ALA and the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Libraries Transforming Communities</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>project,
made possible through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addresses a critical need of the field by developing and distributing new tools, resources and support for librarians to engage with their communities in new ways; strengthens librarians
as community leaders and change agents, and strengthens ALA’s capacity as a lead library support entity.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">In April, up to 50 individuals representing teams from 10 public libraries nationally will be selected to participate in the Public Innovators Cohort. Selected libraries will receive:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An $8,000 grant to support Cohort expenses.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An intensive 18-month Public Innovators Cohort experience that will include training and team coaching to develop and implement a community engagement plan.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cohort training at the intensive three-day Public Innovators Lab, May 20-22, 2014.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Virtual and in-person "innovation space" meetings.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Access to six in-depth distance learning session.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Monthly coaching and peer dialogue calls with a Harwood Institute coach and cohort peers to support implementation work. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Access to publicity and marketing resources to support local-level communications.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">The Public Innovators Cohort is grounded in the Harwood Institute‘s approach of “turning outward,” which emphasizes shifting the institutional and professional orientation of libraries
and librarians from internal to external. Participants will develop and implement a plan for community engagement and learn how to:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Identify community issues rooted in people's shared aspirations;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Strategically share this knowledge with your community to build public will for action;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Develop strategies that align with local context;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Create community conditions that enable change;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Identify the right community partners to work with; and</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#303030;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Develop networks for innovation and learning.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">Complete guidelines and application instructions can be found at:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ala.org/LTC" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0055A5">ala.org/LTC</span></a>.
A conference call for interested applicants will be held at 1 p.m. central time on February 12, 2014.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">An<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://alamw14.ala.org/node/13824" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0055A5">update on the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Libraries
Transforming Communities</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>initiative</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was given by Maureen Sullivan, ALA immediate past president, and Rich Harwood, founder and president of
The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, from 8:30 – 10 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia in PCC 201C.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#303030">Sullivan and Harwood will share the latest examples of the impact from librarians trained during phase one who are successfully applying the Harwood practice in libraries and within
the ALA community. They will also provide details and answer questions about exciting new opportunities for librarians to increase the effectiveness of their library-led community engagement and innovation.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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