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Opportunity Information: Apply for NLG LIBRARIES FY16

• The Institute of Museum and Library Services in the arts (see cultural affairs in cfda) humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Leadership Grants for Libraries" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.312 National Leadership Grants.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 31, 2015 and posted on Aug 31, 2015.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 15, 2016 The application process for this round of the NLG program is a two phase process. In the first phase, all applicants must submit a two page preliminary proposal by October 1, 2015, describing the proposal, its relevance to one of the two agency priorities (if applicable), its potential impact, its projected performance goals and outcomes and its estimated budget. Those applicants, whose preliminary proposals are the most promising and best aligned with the IMLS s agency priorities, will be invited to participate in the second phase of the process by submitting a full proposal and complete application by January 15, 2016.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $12,000,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• To be eligible as an applicant for this National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program, you must be either a unit of State or local government or be a private nonprofit organization that has tax exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code be located in one of the 50 States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau and qualify as one of the following a library or a parent organization, such as a school district, a municipality, a State agency, or an academic institution, that is responsible for the administration of a library. Eligible libraries include public libraries, public elementary and secondary school libraries, college and university libraries, research libraries and archives that are not an integral part of an institution of higher education and that make publicly available library services and materials that are suitable for scholarly research and not otherwise available. Research libraries must be under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian and be either generally recognized as possessing unique, scholarly research materials and services that are made available to the public, or able to demonstrate that such is the case when submitting an application to IMLS a private library or other special library, but only if the State in which it is located determines that the library should be considered a library for purposes of Library Services and Technology (see 20 U.S.C. 9121 9165) an academic or administrative unit, such as a graduate school of library and information science that is part of an institution of higher education through which it would make application a digital library, if it makes library materials publicly available and provides library services, including selection, organization, description, reference, and preservation, under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian a library agency that is an official agency of a State or other unit of government and is charged by the law governing it with the extension and development of public library services within its jurisdiction a library consortium that is a local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library entities that provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of eligible libraries, as defined above, and information centers that work to improve the services delivered to the clientele of these libraries or a library association that exists on a permanent basis serves libraries or library professionals on a national, regional, State, or local level and engages in activities designed to advance the well being of libraries and the library profession Note to applicants In order to receive an IMLS award, you must be in compliance with applicable requirements and be in good standing on all active IMLS awards.

Apply for NLG LIBRARIES FY16

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