State Library announces FY04 LSTA Competitive Grants

The State Library is offering LSTA Competitive Grants to Iowa libraries. The grants are intended to assist libraries in pioneering innovative services, programs and technologies and to share the knowledge learned from that experience with other libraries. The State Library will distribute funding for competitive grants to libraries for projects that focus on "Information Literacy" and/or "Telling the Library Story."  These are priorities of the Iowa Commission of Libraries, as well as the Plan of Service for the State Library and Library Service Areas.

The deadline for grant applications is August 1, 2003. The projects will run from November 1, 2003 to June 30, 2005. There will be two ICN information sessions on June 17 and June 18 for those interested in the application. More information on these sessions will be announced in the future. The grant handbook, application and guidelines are located at www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/LSTA/FY04/index.htm.