Please see below for links to the application, a recording of the information session, and a Powerpoint presentation with more information. Jennifer Dean MLA Board of Directors and ALA Councilor, 2021-2022 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Dowling via ALA Connect Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:57 AM Subject: ALA Chapter Leaders : ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application Deadline April 21 To: <jldean@umich.edu> [image: American Library Association] <https://connect.ala.org/> ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application Deadline April 21 <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> [image: Michael Dowling] <https://connect.ala.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=8cb5a568-b82f-441e-8357-2bc39686dceb> Apr 4, 2022 9:57 AM Michael Dowling <https://connect.ala.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=8cb5a568-b82f-441e-8357-2bc39686dceb> To Chapter Leaders: Thanks for forwarding to your member lists! Michael *ALA COVID Library Relief Fund- Application Deadline April 21* The American Library Association (ALA) is making available *$1.55M* in emergency relief grants to more than *75 libraries* this year that have experienced substantial economic hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ALA COVID Library Relief Fund <https://www.ala.org/aboutala/ala-covid-library-relief-fund> invites: Public, School, Academic, Tribal, and Correctional libraries across the United States and US Territories can apply for grants of *$20,000.* APPLICATIONS <https://libraryrelief.grantplatform.com/> are accepted online through *April 21, 2022 *(11:59PM Central Time) 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. 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. *A recording of the ALA COVID Library Relief Information Session is now available <https://ala-events.zoom.us/rec/share/0laRLN8RhSpI-YHrMK1SGQzzULG0Q2acBV06-1Z3rwLe4iD88zKpDETuEfiIC67U.ZSn4yw2VeksG00zL?startTime=1648148355000>* (one hour). In addition to the recording, you can find the slides of the PowerPoint presentation here <https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/cro/2022%20Covid%20Fund%20Information%20Sessin%20March%2024.pdf> Please contact us if you have any questions at cro@ala.org. ------------------------------ Michael Dowling Director, International Relations American Library Association ------------------------------ -- Jennifer L. Dean - PhD, MLIS Director, Frances Willson Thompson Library University of Michigan-Flint jldean@umich.edu *Pronouns: she/her/hers* *Pronounced: JEH-nih-fuhr deen*