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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span class="inline-color"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1B3E78">ALA Announces $1.25M Emergency Fund for Libraries Impacted by COVID-19</span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The American Library Association (ALA) announced it would make available $1.25M in emergency relief grants to libraries that have experienced substantial economic
hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ALA COVID Library Relief Fund invites the public, school, academic, and tribal libraries across the United States and US Territories to apply for $30,000 to $50,000. These funds will bolster library operations
and services, including broadening technology access, developing collections, providing digital instruction, staffing, expanding outreach, and maintaining and amplifying existing service strategies or adding new ones to extend impact through the end of 2021.
Grant applications are accepted online through <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 20, 2021</span></strong>, via the ALA website
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/ala-covid-library-relief-fund">http://www.ala.org/aboutala/ala-covid-library-relief-fund</a></span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shannon White<br>
Library Development Manager<br>
Library of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo, Lansing, MI 48909<br>
<a href="mailto:Whites29@michigan.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">Whites29@michigan.gov</span></a> 517-335-1507 |
<a href="http://www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a>
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