<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_attr">Please see below for links to the application, a recording of the information session, and a Powerpoint presentation with more information.</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">Jennifer Dean</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">MLA Board of Directors and ALA Councilor, 2021-2022</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Michael Dowling via ALA Connect</strong><br>Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:57 AM<br>Subject: ALA Chapter Leaders : ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application Deadline April 21<br>To: <<a href="mailto:jldean@umich.edu">jldean@umich.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);padding:0px;margin:0px;font-size:14.3px"><table id="gmail-m_-5289431277435469892HLMsgOuter" name="HLMsgOuter" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr bgcolor=""><td align="left"><a href="https://connect.ala.org/" target="_blank"><img alt="American Library Association" border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/higherlogicdownload/ALA/UploadedImages/CyvU3b82RVKNhZBtmu0Q_ALAConnect_emailheader.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h1 style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px;font-size:1.5em"><br></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#EBEBEB" style="font-size:14.3px"><td align="left" colspan="2"><a href="https://connect.ala.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=3df062a1-5097-4636-bbe4-920d896bf1b9&CommunityKey=4abd0d9a-335f-4346-ba94-8aeca76e8eae&bm=3df062a1-5097-4636-bbe4-920d896bf1b9" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application Deadline April 21</a></td></tr><tr style="font-size:14.3px"><td align="right" colspan="2"></td></tr><tr style="font-size:14.3px"><td colspan="2"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" width="85"><a href="https://connect.ala.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=8cb5a568-b82f-441e-8357-2bc39686dceb" target="_blank"><img alt="Michael Dowling" title="Michael Dowling" src="https://d132x6oi8ychic.cloudfront.net/higherlogic/directory/imagedisplay/d3652796-6f10-41ae-be0c-9ad9facd9837/5975cacc-01e4-4f2d-b9da-f3fda11bc97f/200/200/637369906963800000" border="0" width="75"></a></td><td align="left" valign="middle"><table width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top">Apr 4, 2022 9:57 AM</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="https://connect.ala.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=8cb5a568-b82f-441e-8357-2bc39686dceb" target="_blank">Michael Dowling</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size:14.3px"><td align="left" colspan="2"><table cellpadding="5" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><p><span style="font-size:12pt">To Chapter Leaders:<br><br>Thanks for forwarding to your member lists!  Michael<strong><br><br>ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application Deadline April 21</strong></span><br><br><span style="font-size:12pt">The American Library Association (ALA) is making available <strong>$1.55M</strong> in emergency relief grants to more than <strong>75 libraries</strong> this year that have experienced substantial economic hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The<a href="https://www.ala.org/aboutala/ala-covid-library-relief-fund" title="https://www.ala.org/aboutala/ala-covid-library-relief-fund" target="_blank"> ALA COVID Library Relief Fund</a> invites:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt">Public, School, Academic, Tribal, and Correctional libraries across the United States and US Territories can apply for grants of <strong>$20,000.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://libraryrelief.grantplatform.com/" title="https://libraryrelief.grantplatform.com/" target="_blank">APPLICATIONS</a> are accepted online through <strong>April 21, 2022 </strong>(11:59PM Central Time)</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt">These funds are intended to bolster library operations and services including broadening technology access, developing collections, providing digital instruction, staffing, and expanding outreach, as well as maintaining and amplifying existing service strategies or adding new ones to extend impact through the end of 2022.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt">Funds will support libraries' ability to provide their users with the information services and digital access they need to retain or secure socio-economic mobility during a time of shift and upheaval. Libraries serving low income and rural communities, or communities that are predominately Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, and People of Color, are especially encouraged to apply.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"><strong>A recording of the ALA COVID Library Relief Information Session is <a href="https://ala-events.zoom.us/rec/share/0laRLN8RhSpI-YHrMK1SGQzzULG0Q2acBV06-1Z3rwLe4iD88zKpDETuEfiIC67U.ZSn4yw2VeksG00zL?startTime=1648148355000" title="https://ala-events.zoom.us/rec/share/0laRLN8RhSpI-YHrMK1SGQzzULG0Q2acBV06-1Z3rwLe4iD88zKpDETuEfiIC67U.ZSn4yw2VeksG00zL?startTime=1648148355000" target="_blank">now available</a></strong> (one hour).</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt">In addition to the recording, you can find the slides of the PowerPoint presentation <a href="https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/cro/2022%20Covid%20Fund%20Information%20Sessin%20March%2024.pdf" title="https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/cro/2022%20Covid%20Fund%20Information%20Sessin%20March%2024.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt">Please contact us if you have any questions at <a href="mailto:cro@ala.org" title="mailto:cro@ala.org" target="_blank">cro@ala.org</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14.3px">------------------------------</span></p>Michael Dowling<br>Director, International Relations<br>American Library Association<br>------------------------------<br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size:14.3px"></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jennifer L. Dean - PhD, MLIS<div>Director, Frances Willson Thompson Library<div>University of Michigan-Flint</div><div><a href="mailto:jldean@umich.edu" target="_blank">jldean@umich.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>Pronouns: she/her/hers</i></div><div><i>Pronounced: JEH-nih-fuhr deen</i></div></div></div></div></div>