45.313: Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

45.313

Active

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

Sept. 21, 2022

Sept. 21, 2022

The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) program is designed to support the development of a diverse workforce of librarians and archivists in order to meet the information needs of their communities. There are three program goals with three to five associated objectives each. GOAL 1: Recruit, train, develop, and retain a diverse workforce of library and archives professionals. Obj. 1.1: Develop or enhance programs specifically to encourage students of diverse and underrepresented backgrounds at the middle school, high school, and postsecondary levels to pursue careers in library and information science. Obj. 1.2: Collaborate with formal and/or informal learning organizations to incorporate promising practices from allied domains into library and archives services. Obj. 1.3: Develop training for library and archives workforces to support families, groups, and individuals of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and needs. GOAL 2: Develop faculty, library, and archives leaders by increasing the institutional capacity of libraries, archives, and graduate programs related to library and information science. Obj. 2.1: Support the preparation and implementation of large-scale organizational change addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Obj. 2.2: Create initiatives, activities, and curricula that reduce equity gaps and address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment, development, and retention of faculty, library, and archives leaders from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds. Obj. 2.3: Support the research of untenured tenure-track library and information science faculty, furthering the faculty member’s long-term research agenda, career trajectory, and professional development. GOAL 3: Enhance the training and professional development of the library and archival workforce to meet the needs of their communities. Obj. 3.1: Develop training to equip the library and archival workforce to engage in sustained community development. Obj. 3.2: Create and/or refine training programs that build library and archival workforce skills and expertise in contributing to the well-being of communities. Obj. 3.3: Create and/or refine training programs to build library and archival workforce skills and expertise in developing engaging lifelong learning opportunities, fostering attitudes of discovery, cultivating critical and creative thinking skills, and facilitating experiential and self-directed learning opportunities for all. Obj. 3.4: Support training of the library and archival workforce to advance digital inclusion for the benefit of community members. Obj. 3.5: Support training of the library and archival workforce in digital collection management.

B - Project Grants (Discretionary)

An applicant must meet geographic and governance criteria and qualify as one of the following six types of organizations: 1. 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; 2. 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 an application; 3. a digital library, if it makes library materials publicly available and provides library services under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian; 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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.

Not Applicable

45.312 - National Leadership Grants

45.311 - Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services

45.308 - Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program

45.309 - Museum Grants for African American History and Culture

45.301 - Museums for America

45.310 - Grants to States

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