Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Welcome everyone. This is Terry Devoe, the Associate deputy Director for the Grants to States program. We are so happy you're here joining us for the week before the grants to States Conference orientation.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: We do this so that people get a sense of some of the systems and acronyms and processes that we're going to be kind of going through at a lightning pace during the conference itself.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: And if you have any questions, you know, in the lead up to the conference. This is a great place to ask those as well.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: If you are coming in person next week, I'll just give a couple of shout outs, we've got A very brief Intro section at 8 45 on the 1st day on Wednesday.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: and that's just a quick meet and greet if you haven't put eyes on those of us that work at Imls yet, so A couple of us will be doing virtual monitoring and won't be there. But Madison and Dennis and I will be there, and we'd be happy to see you in person for that little 15 min before the conference officially starts.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: and we have it on the agenda now, but that is going to be on the same level as the ballroom in our conference on the 5th floor, and it's going to be in the oak room so it shouldn't be too hard to find, and we look forward to possibly seeing you there.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: So getting into the presentation content.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Today, we're going to talk through some of our history of how grants to States came to be some acronyms.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: our resources, of which there are many our systems and some of the requirements that come with this Federal funding program.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: We also have built in it, says a quiz at the bottom. But don't be alarmed. It's really just a number of questions that we've built in to help you solidify this learning, and we find that this is a a better way for you to retain it.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: and we also have a companion handout that accompanies this presentation, which is a digest. It's a little shorter than printing out the entire set of slides.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: So we're going to share the handout link at some point in the chat for you, and then at the end. We do have these slides linked online already, and we're going to share that link with you as well at the end of the presentation.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: So again, we have plenty of time for your questions, so as they come up, just feel free to chat them in.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: But I want you to know who we are. And who's going to be speaking you today. And that is the 5 of us from Grants to States. At Imls.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: We have 3 program officers in the middle. They are assigned to States. So you should have a direct connection to one of them, and if you don't know who that is, it's no problem. You can chat it in, and we'll make sure to point you to the right program. Officer. You just have to tell us which state or territory you're from.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: So that's Madison, Dennis and Cindy, and you're going to hear from all of them today.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: And then I support all the States as a team lead, and Laura Mckenzie also supports all the States in her program specialist role. And I want to particularly thank Laura for pulling this presentation together. She is the connective tissue for so much of what we do.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: And I. I was going to also mention before I I go too far along that if you want to meet your with your program officer at the conference, and you're coming in person to Milwaukee.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: we have something we call office hours. That sounds maybe a little intimidating, but it's another chance to just get some dedicated one on one time with your program officer, and they come in 15 min slots. So we've still got some of those slots available on the 1st night of the program Wednesday, and then on the morning of the second day Thursday.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: So now I'm going to again. Thank Laura. Turn it over to Laura. Laura's going to kick us off, and here we go.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Thank you so much, Terry. It's wonderful to see all of you here. And a lot of new names as well. So I just wanted to get us started with a brief history of the Grants to States program. It's a little bit hard to see here on the map, but it really shows the need. This is a percent of the total population without public library service by State for 1953.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And on a related. Note. Here we have a history of library formula funds. This goes back to 1,956, with the passage of the Library Services Act, Lsa. Which authorized 7.5 million annually for 5 years for the extension and improvement of Public library service in rural areas
Office of Library Services IMLS: in 1,962 Lsa. Was reauthorized as the Library Services and Construction Act, Lsca. Removing restrictions that limited funding to rural libraries and adding title 2
Office of Library Services IMLS: which contain funds for remodeling or construction of library buildings.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Then, in 1,996, Congress shifted Lsca to the Library Services and Technology Act, Lsta as sub. Chapter 2 of the Museum and Library Services Act, ending Federal funding for library construction and replacing it with a focus on new information technologies.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Here we get into a lot of content about our common acronyms and terms. And there's a more comprehensive link on our website, which is on the bottom of this slide, so I encourage you to take a look at that but we will start off here with the Spr.
Office of Library Services IMLS: State program report, which is also linked here in the slide.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Imls's grants management system is Egms.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Reach is the messaging system used in Egms.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Login, Gov is a secure sign and service that you need to access. Egms reach, and this has been in place since January 2023,
Office of Library Services IMLS: and as many of you probably know the Federal Government requires a business in this case the sla to have a unique entity. Id or ue IA lot of acronyms here, alphabet soup
Office of Library Services IMLS: through the Federal system for award management. sam.gov.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And it's important to note that you should already be an active registrant in sam.gov. And the Gsa. Or General Service Administration assigned a Ue. I. To you, and it will also be viewable within sam.gov.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And Imls assigns the Federal award identification number or fain, which you can also find in Egms
Office of Library Services IMLS: and the ein the employer identification number.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And, as I mentioned, yes, please do check out the link here with even more information. And there's the next slide continues
Office of Library Services IMLS: with
Office of Library Services IMLS: these acronyms and terms, kicking off with the Aco authorized certifying official.
Office of Library Services IMLS: For most
Office of Library Services IMLS: cases it will be the State librarian. But it could also be the administrator that the State librarian reports to
Office of Library Services IMLS: the Cfr. Is code of Federal regulations.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Fafada is the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
Office of Library Services IMLS: and Fsrs. Gov is the Fafada State reporting system, and this is used to enter information on subrecipients who received grants of $30,000 or more.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And here we're calling out some really important Imls financial requirements
Office of Library Services IMLS: match and Moe match is the amount of money, 34% of the program budget. Our Lsta legislation requires a State library to contribute
Office of Library Services IMLS: toward the Grant program using non-federal funds.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Moe maintenance of effort. This is a statutory requirement for States to maintain their financial contributions to the grants to States program
Office of Library Services IMLS: at not less than the amount of the average contributions over 3 fiscal years. If you need to hear that again, don't fear match and Moe will be covered in the Financial Boot Camp Conference session next Thursday.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And finally here we did want to mention the Cares Act and Arpa, because there will also be. I wanted to put in a special plug here for our office of research and evaluation colleagues. There's a session on Cares Act and Arpa evaluation findings on Wednesday morning.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And this is a really key resource here for our program. The grants to States Manual. It's on the Imls website, and we've included a direct URL at the bottom of this slide.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And in addition to the sections visible on the screen, such as state allotment tables. There are sections on
Office of Library Services IMLS: a great number of things. The Award cycle, calendar, financial requirements.
Office of Library Services IMLS: financial and reporting required
Office of Library Services IMLS: documents, including the State program, report, site visits, Imls, guidance statutes.
Office of Library Services IMLS: links to presentations, conferences, forms. We recommend bookmarking the site for future reference.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And here we have the site visit checklist, which is another really important program resource. You can access it in the account management section of the Spr. Which is called out here on the screen.
Office of Library Services IMLS: and it can also be saved as a Pdf. For record keeping.
Office of Library Services IMLS: The questions were updated in 2023, and the entire checklist is web based, which is an exciting development that hopefully makes it easier for you to complete the the checklist
Office of Library Services IMLS: and all requested documentation materials can be uploaded within the checklist rather than emailing attachments, which is handy.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And we've also included a reference copy of all the questions here
Office of Library Services IMLS: on the Grant State's Manual.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Another resource we wanted to call out, and you might be familiar with is the Lstac Listserv. This is a really great forum, designed by and for Lsta coordinators, you know, to ask questions about reports and a whole host of topics.
Office of Library Services IMLS: we would encourage that you subscribe and included information on how to subscribe here on this slide.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Now, we're going to review a bit about the different forms of communications that we use here. Starting with emails from Imls.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Once we receive a message from the State Library that a new Lsta Coordinator has started. We will send a welcome message, and you know, let them know who their program officer is and where to find information.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Your Imls program officer is a key contact. For all you know, official interpretation of
Office of Library Services IMLS: program legislative requirements
Office of Library Services IMLS: and questions. And as Terry mentioned at the beginning of the presentation. We're happy to point you to your program officer, if you don't know who they are.
Office of Library Services IMLS: and once, Imls, you know we have your name. We have your contact information. We will add you to the State program report system and Egms system.
Office of Library Services IMLS: and
Office of Library Services IMLS: your program officer will also let you know who your mentor will be. The mentors are drawn from a voluntary group of experienced coordinators.
Office of Library Services IMLS: This way you will have some great resources and experienced people to draw from for questions. And we really appreciate all of our mentors.
Office of Library Services IMLS: Another category we wanted to call out here with communications is egms. Here's a screenshot of the system. It's our electronic grants management system and should be used for all record level correspondence and payment requests.
Office of Library Services IMLS: And we also created a a chart to help navigate you through when you should use egms versus regular email, because they're different
Office of Library Services IMLS: different things that we we want to see used for each category, and and something to call out. Here, too, is that each ems for equipment requests. This applies for items that cost $5,000 or more, which will be changing
Office of Library Services IMLS: to $10,000. But there will be more on that later, and with that I will pass it over to Dennis.
Dennis Nangle: Thank you, Laura. I am going to go over some of the finer details of the State program report. I would say, between egms like Laura, just refer referenced and the Spr. Those are probably the 2 main systems that we use. With the Grants estates program. So we thought we'd provide a introductory overview and
Dennis Nangle: as is the theme, with most of the orientation content, we'll be diving into this more deeply next week, and there'll be plenty of time to go into it in a little more detail, and to answer any specific questions in person, too, if if that's what you prefer
Dennis Nangle: but as I mentioned, the State program, report or Spr
Dennis Nangle: is a complete web-based
Dennis Nangle: system, and it's our system of record for submitting, reviewing and approving all of your final reports, both financial and the narrative side of it as well.
Dennis Nangle: And so what we do is when we know that somebody new has come on board. We set you up in the system. We give you a username and a temporary password, and then,
Dennis Nangle: based on your current state's situation. We will. You'll have different permissions and different access to different parts of the system based on your identified
Dennis Nangle: at a permissions level. We wanted to let you all know that chrome and edge are the recommended browsers for the Spr because it is web based. That is important. Those are what we find to be the most reliable browsers for working in the Spr. And we also recommend. And this ha! This is a
Dennis Nangle: lesson learned through much heartache that we want you all to avoid is to not open 2 browser windows or tabs
Dennis Nangle: in the Spr. At the same time, because this is how you are collecting data and how we are getting the report data. This, if you have 2 browser windows or tabs open at the same time, there sometimes is an issue with the the data saving because it doesn't know where to save the information. So we just want to recommend keep it at one tab at a time. To prevent any data loss which would be very sad.
Dennis Nangle: And then there's also a lot of printing to Pdf functionality in the Spr. That we have find we have found is helpful for viewing previous reports concurrently with the current one. Which, as if you are new in the role, looking back on previous reports, can be really helpful context. And so what is nice about this report is that you can toggle back and look at previous years and see what was reported previously to. Kind of get your feet wet a little bit.
Dennis Nangle: So I mentioned getting set up in the Spr. The way that we know if somebody has come on board at a State Library is that we are notified when this section of the Spr. Has been updated. So what we always recommend, whether you are
Dennis Nangle: representing a new person in your State Library, or you are the new person at the State Library. We recommend going into the State info section and reviewing the various contact fields that you see here. And making sure everything's up to date. And as soon as you hit save, we get an email saying that it's been updated, and, as you can see, at the top of this particular screenshot.
Dennis Nangle: there's an indicator of when it was modified last. So we know. And you know
Dennis Nangle: whether or not the information is up to date. So if you haven't done that yet, I recommend just going through making sure that all of the fields. Even if your field is accurate, just making sure that the other position areas and the contact areas are up to date also.
Dennis Nangle: And I mentioned earlier how there are different user roles in the Spr. And this is very relevant.
Dennis Nangle: especially if you are wondering why you can't see something that you expect to see in the Spr, it might be because you don't have the correct user role in the spr, that is something that is that we control. So if you do find that you may be
Dennis Nangle: are logging into the Spr, but you can't seem to edit
Dennis Nangle: the Admin project or something like that. You may not have the Lst Coordinator user role. So you would email one of your program officers or one of us as your program officer and ask to get that switched. And we can. We can make that adjustment. And I just want to emphasize that the
Dennis Nangle: the last 2 roles down here, because they can be helpful for a wide variety of uses. If you are a large State library, or maybe a State library that has a lot of projects because of subgrants or things like that.
Dennis Nangle: you can add a user that's there just to do project data entry. So they really wouldn't be able to do a lot of editing in the financial side of things, or add sub recipients or validate the reports. They would just be there to add, do some data entry that's an option. And then for those of you that are
Dennis Nangle: overseeing your state libraries, financials, or working in any way, making sure that you're in the Spr and also have that financial manager or fiscal officer user role to help with verifying and potentially adding the data related to the financial reports and the financials under the rest of the projects also.
Dennis Nangle: And so yes. So I I went through all of that on the Spr. And, like I said, this is intended to be sort of a a fly by skim over, and we'll go over more of it next week, but until then, and as a reference, we just wanted to spotlight these 3 links, and these are all derived from our grants estates manual. So if you hear us referencing the grants States manual often, there's there's a reason, because it is a very comprehensive
Dennis Nangle: sort of index of all these sorts of pieces of support documentation, and these 3 in particular, are very helpful for navigating the Spr. The overview and guide is as it says in the description here on the slide it does offer a full picture of the process, the technical elements like logging in. But then some of the reporting concepts, or how we expect to see certain things reported
Dennis Nangle: and just basically how to use the system itself is the is the general thrust of that one. And then, if you wanted to get more into the data elements.
Dennis Nangle: why, we're asking for this Metric, or what we mean by certain terms. The state program reporting requirements is helpful. And then the reporting system user documentation is a very detailed guide in the event that you need to maybe look at the glossary or again, some of the back end technical elements of how the Spr is laid out.
Dennis Nangle: Another useful tool that is also on the grants to States manual is the Grant Cycle Calendar. We don't have a link on it here. But, as I said. The link in the chat to the Manual will take you there. If you go into the the irrelevant area.
Dennis Nangle: And we find that this is very popular and very helpful. And why? Maybe I we don't have the official data on this, but it might be the most printed element of the Grants Estates manual for a good reason. I have seen it on many a cubicle wall. And rightfully so. Because there are a lot of dates
Dennis Nangle: and if you're not already familiar, our grants overlap. And so this attempts to, through color coding indicate
Dennis Nangle: where you are at and what what Grant awarded is relevant to all of these particular deadlines. So we highly recommend that as a getting started sort of reference.
Dennis Nangle: Speaking of overlapping timelines, we trot out this timeline visual as often as we can. You can't get enough of it, and no amount of seeing it will help. You remember exactly how it works, so we're always ready to show it again. And so this attempts to visualize several overlapping elements related to the grants, to States awards.
Dennis Nangle: and so I won't get into it into too much detail, but very loosely, the gray section at the top. It's all colored in gray to demonstrate for you all the Grant awards that are tied to a specific 5 Year Plan period. See that Big Arrow shows you the 5 Year plan period, and because of
Dennis Nangle: our timelines and the the time you get the award compared to the time the award is finished.
Dennis Nangle: the award themselves actually go a little bit further past the 5 Year Plan period, which is what you're seeing here. And then that orange section to the bottom indicates a New 5 Year Plan Period, and also underneath of those, it shows you sort of how the awards we give to you
Dennis Nangle: cascade on an annual basis. So that's kind of visualizing how you get a new award every week every year. But you have 2 years to spend it. So inevitably you're gonna have this demonstration of the overlap, and then that thick
Dennis Nangle: that more richly colored box at the end of all of those shows you how there's time between the end of the Grants period of performance, and the time you have to get the report content, narrative and financials ready for submission to the Spr. So I'm sure there's plenty to mentally unpack here, and we'll have plenty of time next week, and at any time in an email to answer any questions. But that is our attempt to visualize it for you.
Dennis Nangle: And now I'm going to have pass it over to Cindy.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Thanks, Dennis.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: We're going to dive into the Quarterly Grant
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: accrual amounts or Qgars, as we like to call them every 3 months. Imls needs you to report on Grant. Approval amounts for the Grants to States program.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: I'm less developed this worksheet because there isn't an official Federal form for the Q. Garrs.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Each quarter's accrual must represent the total expenses for active grant awards that a grantee has incurred during the Grant period, but has not yet submitted to Imls for reimbursement.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: because 2 Federal fiscal years typically overlap in their Grant periods.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Quarterly accrual information will cover those 2 separate active grants.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: You should send the grant numbers or number
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: and total grant approval amounts or amount
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: for the current award year or years in the body of the email to.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: I'm not going to read that off for you, because it's on the screen. Submit this information no later than 4 business days after
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: the last day of the quarter, which is also noted in the Grant Cycle Calendar.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: and here are some reminders about Lsda. Allowable costs.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: There will be a very detailed dedicated Conference session on allowable costs next week. But this is a tip sheet for you.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: All right, here comes the quiz. We're gonna test your knowledge. Everybody.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: The 1st few are going to be around material covered in this session. So feel free to answer. Using chat.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: You can use egms, reach to do everything except the following.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: a. Manage awards, B request payments. C. Send official grant communications such as prior approval requests
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: for equipment, that is, a tongue. Twister d. Access, reporting schedules and previous payment requests.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: or E update your State's personnel information for grants to States.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: I don't see any answers in the chat. There we go, Jennifer Chilco. Thank you so much.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: It's a sleep test as well. I'd love some more answers in chat. There we go. Thank you. Now they're rolling in.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: I love the enthusiasm. Alex. Thank you.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: And I'm seeing a general consensus.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Okay?
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Great.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: All right. We can move on to the answer.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: The answer is, E, you should submit. All personnel changes through the Sbr State info option in the account management menu. Item, not egms.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Annual reports will also be submitted through the Spr.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Very well done. Everybody
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: question 2 Lsta. Mentors serve as consultants to assist new coordinators who want guidance with anything related to the Lsta program. True or false.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: right
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: fantastic. All right. It's true. Mentors help new Lsca. Coordinators learn how to use the Spr. System
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: and how to successfully run the Grant program.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: If you are a new coordinator, and you don't know who your mentor is.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: See me at some point during one of the breaks at the conference or send me an email, and we will find out what's going on.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: All right.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: Quiz, question number 3. The maintenance of effort
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: provision ensures that State library investments aren't simply replaced by Federal funds over time. True or false
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: love, the confidence, love it
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: true, a maintenance of effort formula ensures that Federal assistance results in an increased level of library related activity, and that a State does not simply replace State dollars with Federal dollars over time.
Cindy Boyden - IMLS: This is going to be covered in also great depth during the conference. So stay tuned for that. And at this point I'm going to pass things over to Madison.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Thank you, Cindy. It's so great to have you all here today. We look forward to meeting you to those who are going to be with us in person next week. To the new folks. Welcome onto Question 4. We're moving on to a different category of questions.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Which of these applies to the 4% of your award that can be utilized for Slaa administrative costs.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: A. It could cover fully or partially the Lsda Coordinator position.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: B. It could cover administrative costs imposed by the State for things like accounting support.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: C. You are not required to use any of the Federal award for administration or D. All of these apply.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Excellent, excellent! We are seeing some consensus in the chat.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: and you are correct. D. All of the supply. Everything listed there
Madison Bolls, IMLS: is able to be used towards the 4% of your award, or you don't have to use the 4%. Admin it's up to you.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Question. 5
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Lsta. Records must be kept for 3 years after the Slaa submits the last expenditure report for that period.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: True or false.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Looks like you guys had to think a little bit on this one.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: That's correct, it's true.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: According to 2 Cfr. 234, the entire 5 year package of documents is pertinent to the Grants Estates Program. So records for all of those years associated with the 5 year period must be kept until 3 years after the last report is submitted.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Question 6.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: A State must submit new legal certification, annual assurances and certifications. 5 year Plan assurances, non construction, assurances and Internet safety forms to the program officer A with every new Award.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: B. When a new chief officer or authorized official is hired C with each New 5 Year plan or D, both B and C.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: It is D, both B and C. When a new chief officer or authorized official is hired.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: and with each New 5 Year plan, you must submit a new stack of assurances.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Note that if you have an interim interim authorized, authorized, certifying official, you do not need to submit full packets of materials for those folks
Madison Bolls, IMLS: and question 7. Typically, no site visits will be scheduled in 2,027 when 5 year evaluations and plans are due.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: true or false.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: Yes, Karen, we thought of you. And so that is true, based on your suggestions. We work to complete all site visits in 4 years, so that 5th year no State will have to do their plan and evaluation and do a site visit.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: So our with our final question.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: if you're having issues related to the Imls program that might cause bigger headaches. Later, you should wait to tell Imls about them until they become real problems
Madison Bolls, IMLS: false. You guys are correct. The program is a state Federal partnership. You all are our partners. So we want to help you resolve things before they create much larger problems down the road, so please contact us early and often we always love to hear from you.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: All right, I think that concludes the end of our initial orientation. Now we're here for questions.
Madison Bolls, IMLS: and feel free to unmute. If you just want to ask your question as well.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Yeah, cause I've been looking at the chat, and I do not see any questions that came in during the course of the earlier presentation. So yeah, wanna just unmute.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Raise your hand, chat it in. We'll take a few
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: moments here.
Jennifer Chilcoat - Arkansas: I have a question
Jennifer Chilcoat - Arkansas: great.
Jennifer Chilcoat - Arkansas: What is the what is the meet? What is the designation? 2 year award.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: I don't know. You know, it's just kind of our practical when we issue an award to you.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Its start date is October 1st of a year, and its end date is 2 years later, on September 30.th So even though we're issuing you awards annually, each of those awards durations is 2 years.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: So that was kind of getting back to that lovely little chart that Dennis showed with the orange and the gray, where
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: in any given year. You're going to have a couple of open awards because they each last for 2 years.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: I see I see a head nod like hopefully that got to the crux of your question. Jennifer.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Cool.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Okay, I'm going to read out a question from the chat. Unless, Brian, you want to unmute and read it out yourself.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Okay.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: I'm new to State government, and I'm the Grants Coordinator. I will be attending virtually, and would like to know if certain parts of next week's conference will be more pertinent and informative for me than others.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: or will attending the entire conference during the work hours. I'm at work be recommended.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: So if you are the Grants Coordinator, and that translates to what we would consider to be the Lsta coordinator. Then I would say, yes, it's all super pertinent to you, and as much as you can attend virtually would be awesome. And if you, if you go beyond your work hours for some reason, because we know there's time zones.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: We will record sessions and post them after the fact, so you could tune into them
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: a few weeks after the conference. But they're gonna this is like your bread and butter. We we really
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: designed kind of a boot camp this year, like a back to basics. And we think everything is going to be very, very relevant.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Okay.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: yes. And we know those flavors of job titles and what we call Lsta coordinator don't always align. So yeah, figuring out your role is a great 1st step.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Any other questions.
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Okay?
Teri DeVoe, IMLS: Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to stop the recording. I'm going to thank everyone for attending, and then, if you want to hang on, you are welcome to. But for the purposes of our formal recording. I'm going to just shut it down now. One moment.