STEM Expert Facilitation of Family Learning in Libraries and Museums (STEMeX) – A National Leadership Grants Special Initiative – FY16 Notice of Funding Opportunity

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Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/stem-expert-facilitation-family-learning-libraries-and-museums-stemex

Additional Information of Eligibility:
The information below outlines eligibility requirements for a museum entity or library entity, and some institutions may be eligible as both.

An institution will not be asked to identify as a museum or library, but will be asked to identify the organization type on the SF424S and the organization unit type on the Program Information Sheet (Section f).

To be eligible as library entity, you must: be either a unit of State or local government or be a private nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code; be located in one of the 50 States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau; and qualify as one of the following: 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.

Eligible libraries include public libraries, public elementary and secondary school libraries, college and university libraries, research libraries and archives that are not an integral part of an institution of higher education and that make publicly available library services and materials that are suitable for scholarly research and not otherwise available.

Research libraries must be under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian and be either generally recognized as possessing unique, scholarly research materials and services that are made available to the public, or able to demonstrate that such is the case when submitting an application to IMLS a private library or other special library, but only if the State in which it is located determines that the library should be considered a library for purposes of Library Services and Technology (see 20 U.S.C.

9121-9165) 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 application a digital library, if it makes library materials publicly available and provides library services, including selection, organization, description, reference, and preservation, under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian

Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/stem-expert-facilitation-family-learning-libraries-and-museums-stemex

Contact:
Libraries:Sandra ToroSenior Library Program Officer202-653-4662storo@imls.gov Trevor OwensSenior Library Program Officer202-653-4654tjowens@imls.govMuseums:Helen WechslerSupervisory Grants Management Specialist

Agency Email Description:
storo@imls.gov

Agency Email:
storo@imls.gov

Date Posted:
2016-02-01

Application Due Date:
2016-05-01

Archive Date:
2016-05-31