Institute of Museum and Library Services 2020 Grants to States All States Conference May
12, 2020 Virtual Proceedings by: CASET Associates, Ltd. caset@caset.net
Agenda Item: Recognition and Day 1 Wrap-Up MS.
GONSALVES: Welcome back.
I wanted to look at the end of the day and be able to offer this recognition and wrap-up
of all the incredible work that folks have done.
We are happy to announce our recognition for your heroic and timely efforts in special
categories.
Typically, there are three awards given representing one from each of the three program officer
portfolios.
So the first one, timely and complete SPR submissions can be a heavy lift even for heroes,
but start with those heroes who submitted SPRs at the speed of SPR light.
And first up is Alaska.
What a performance.
This is awarded to the Alaska Department of Education Early Development for your extraordinary
courage and being one of the first to submit to the SPR.
Next is Maine.
You too, also were able to get in there first and submit your SPR.
And you crushed it North Dakota.
Thank you very much for that.
Next, we were blown away by the tenacious and collective push for your certifications
and assurances and for the 2020 Grants to States awards.
In fact, in one program officer's portfolio, two states tied for first place.
Michigan, you submitted one of the earliest signed assurances.
And it is a great honor to award you this award your model for truth, justice and the
American way.
Pennsylvania, you too were able to get in and submit your assurances and certification.
Oklahoma, thank you for striking lightning fast.
And with Oklahoma is the Library of Virginia.
It was too close to call, so you are in the hero league as well.
As we all launched ourselves into a stratosphere of new eGMS technology, there were a few who
rode blindingly fast.
Amazing Arkansas, you were one of the first eGMS messages to come through.
And California, very clever.
Thank you for that.
Nebraska, very nice.
Thank you for being among the few and the first to get your messages through.
So who are those masked mentors who give so willingly to save the day?
We would like to give a huge thank you to our magnificent mentors.
Every year, we like to recognize the veteran members of our community who are willing to
share their superhero expertise by being a mentor to new LSTA coordinators and their
state library staff colleagues.
Jaime Ball, Ashley Bowers, Cindy Boyden, Rachel Cook, Karen Egan, Debbie Hall, Jean Heilig,
Janet McKenney, Nancy Medema, Kathleen Moeller-Pfeiffer, Jennifer Peacock, Karen Rice and Judy Tirey.
Thank you, mentors.
You certainly saved the day.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary heroes!
And now a word about all of our superheroes.
As you have heard repeatedly, this has been an extraordinary year.
From the start, it was filled with changes and challenges for all.
We did not want to let this opportunity go by without recognizing the hard work and agile
responsiveness from every one of you and your team.
If you remember, building on the last LSTA conference, we signaled to everyone that it
was time to change over to your new five-year goals in the SPR.
And everyone hit that mark.
Kapow and kudos.
We brought all of our hopes and dreams, really 12 years in the making to fruition.
Last fall, it was such an exciting time to finally implement and share with you our new
and first publicly accessible Electronic Grants Management System.
And you all jumped in like pros.
Thank you for that.
And lastly, the New Museum and Library Services Act was put into place in January with your
2020 grant award.
As you recall, this was the umbrella legislation for the LSTA.
We got to direct additional resource funding for your superpowers by raising the base for
state allotment.
And we incorporated the three freely associated states for the first time into the larger
portfolio of grant recipients.
MS.
DEVOE: Hurray.
This is Teri.
Deirdre, thank you so much for walking us through that super hero recognition portion.
It was a lot faster than it in prior years because we didn’t stop to take all your
pictures.
Although we are thinking fondly of all of you out there wherever you are tuning in from.
And just to note that if your individual state was recognized, we will be sending you a digital
copy of your certificate after the conference just in case you are frantically trying to
take a screenshot.
This is one deck that we did not load to the website in advance.
We wanted it to be a little bit of a surprise.
But we will make sure that you get your recognition in hand, so that you have a copy of it.
Well, we have made it through today.
And tomorrow, we are going to have some great presentations to look forward to.
Our colleague, Matt Birnbaum, who is the supervising social scientist and works with Lisa, is going
to highlight a number of projects from this year's SPR, specifically around digital literacy
and broadband.
Then we are going to have a bunch of states that will tell us about their discretionary
IMLS projects in a lightening talk format.
And that will be moderated by Madison.
We will have a cameo from Dennis Nangle who, as we have said throughout, is not physically
with us during this conference.
But he did some advance work and recorded something for you.
So you will get a brief overview of web tools for grants management and IMLS data.
And then we will hear from three states that have been approaching disaster preparedness
in different ways.
And that session will be moderated by Michele.
We really appreciate you hanging in there with us through this virtual format.
And again, if we weren't able to answer your questions during the presentations themselves,
we will be getting a transcript of those to follow up with you after the meeting.
So I think the best recognition we can give you is some of your time back today and say
kudos and we did it, and we look forward to doing it with you again tomorrow.
(The conference adjourned at 4:40 p.m.)