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Maximizing School Library Funding for Growth and Success

Explore strategic steps to secure funding for your school library or media center. Identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps for expansion. Learn about partnerships, grants, and successful examples to sustain and enhance your program beyond initial funding.

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Maximizing School Library Funding for Growth and Success

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  1. Funding Your School LibraryMedia Center Strategic Starting Points WIT 2003-2004 Delta Meeting February, 27, 2004

  2. Steps in the process: • Take inventory: • What do you already have on which to build? • Excellent staff, relationships with the community, principal advocate, active students, programming ideas, etc.? • Where are the gaps? Where do you see a need for expansion, improvement, or support?

  3. Creative thinking… • Be innovative… • Consider how you can take your strengths and weaknesses, and combine them • Consider strategic partnerships where you demonstrate your ability to collaborate and accomplish as part of a team • Consider how this program or request can be sustained or have impact beyond initial funding

  4. Partnerships • Technology with non-technology • Teachers with media specialists • Science • Mathematics • History/Social Science • Language Arts • Health

  5. Resources: CPS: a first stop!: http://www.cps.k12.il.us/AboutCPS/Departments/Libraries/librarians.htm TechLearning:http://techlearning.com/resources/grants.jhtml Illinois State Library: • School Library Per Capita Grant (apps. Accepted beginning in Sept.) http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/library/isl/grants/04pcapfact.pdf • Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) Grants http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/library/isl/grants/FY2004lsta.html • Make it fit the Long Range Plan for the LSTA (2004-2007) http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/library/isl/grants/LSTALongRange2003.doc

  6. Examples of success • Partnerships: • Elementary School Storytelling in community: • http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/what_we_do/pdfs/storytelling.pdf • Schools partnering with public libraries: • http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/what_we_do/sixschools.html

  7. You’re not alone! First time grant writer shares her pain: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/what_we_do/pdfs/GrantWriter.pdf School Grants Org: http://www.schoolgrants.org/index.htm

  8. Books • Hoffman, Frank W., ed. Grantsmanship for small libraries and school library media centers. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. • Burlingame, Dwight, ed. Library fundraising: models for success. Chicago: American Library Association, 1995. • Barber, Peggy and Linda D. Crowe. Getting your grant: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1993. Created by S.L.Comstock

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