* Expand services for learning and access to information and educational resources in a variety of formats, in all types of libraries, for persons of all ages.
* Develop library services that provide all users with access to information through local, state, regional, national, and international electronic networks.
* Provide electronic and other links between and among all types of libraries.
* Develop public and private partnerships with other agencies and community-based organizations.
* Target library services to help increase access and ability to use information resources for persons of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; persons with disabilities; and persons with limited functional literacy or information skills.
* Target library and information services to help increase access and ability to use information resources for persons who have difficulty using a library and for underserved urban and rural communities, including children, from birth to age 17, from families with incomes below the poverty line.
Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages and corporations are eligible to apply for funding under this program. Entities such as libraries, schools, tribal colleges, and departments of education are not eligible applicants, although they may be involved in the administration of this program and their staff may serve as project directors. Applicants for Enhancement Grants must have applied for a Native American Library Services Basic Grant in the same fiscal year.
Applicants may apply on paper or online through Grants.gov. More information, including guidelines and the application, can be found at www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/nativeEnhance.shtm. Awards will be announced in September 2007. -- www.imls.gov
Posted February 3rd, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
