>> Laurie Allen: Welcome to this
Connecting Communities Digital
Initiative informational webinar
for the grant to Libraries,
Archives, and Museums.
Welcome, and it's
nice to have you here.
We're going to start with just
a little bit of housekeeping.
This webinar is being recorded.
And we ask that you
please use the Q&A feature
of Zoom to post questions.
This webinar is for you to
get your questions answered,
so please don't hold back.
If you're wondering something,
chances are someone else is too.
So please use the Q&A feature
in Zoom so that we can,
it helps us keep the
questions organized
to use Q&A rather than chat.
So you can feel free
to chat in the chat,
but if you're asking a question,
please use the Q&A feature.
I am one of your hosts.
My name is Laurie Allen.
I'm here with Sahar Kazmi,
Eileen Jakeway Manchester,
Giselle Aviles.
All of us are working right
now in the OCI, in the Office
of the Chief Information
Officer.
And we'll also probably be
joined by Hope O'Keeffe,
who works in our Office
of General Counsel.
Throughout the course
of this program,
I'm going to mention
the website,
the blog over and over again.
And this URL at the bottom is
where we're putting questions
and answers for this
grant in particular.
So the Q&As, so if we don't
go get to your question
or if you ask a question that
I don't know the answer to,
we will post the
answer in the Q&A
on this blog post
there at the bottom.
So thank you, again, very
much for being with us.
It's nice to see you all.
And we'll get, we'll
dive right into it.
So over the next hour,
or potentially less
if you all don't have
a ton of questions,
but we'll, we have that time.
I'll start with just giving
you an overview of the
Of the People program
and then an overview
of the Connecting
Communities Digital Initiative,
which I'll call CCDI.
Because this grant is
part of both of those.
It's part of the Connecting
Communities Digital Initiative,
which is part of Of the People.
So I'll give you some context.
Why is the Library of
Congress offering this grant?
And why is it offering
this grant in this way?
But for the majority of the time
we're going to talk about how
to apply for this Libraries,
Archives, and Museums grant,
making sure that we really
try get to your questions
and sharing a little
bit more information
about how you can learn about
what the Library of Congress has
so that you can think
about whether this
opportunity is right
for you or your organization.
Okay, so we are recording.
And the recording will be
available on that site.
It will be available
for, it takes actually,
usually a couple of
weeks to process.
So I'll be, this
afternoon I'll be uploading,
linking to a couple of the
ones that we've already done.
But it will be recorded,
and it will be shared
with, on the blog.
Okay, so let's get into it,
starting with an overview of the
Of the People program.
Of the People, Widening the
Path is a multi-year initiative,
sorry, that creates new
opportunities for more Americans
to engage with the
Library of Congress
and to add their perspectives
to the Library's collections,
allowing the national library
to share a more inclusive
American story.
It was made possible
through a grant
from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation to the Library.
And it's a four-year program,
which means that this is,
we're still in our first year.
We're still in the first
year of this program.
So pretty much everything
we talk about is going
to keep happening over the
course of the four years,
and we're going to keep
getting better at it.
So in addition to hoping that we
can make this opportunity a good
learning opportunity
for you, we really want
to hear how the process
is working.
How, what your questions are
so that we can make this program
better over the next four years
and really take the lessons
to the Library more broadly.
Of the People has
three programatic arms.
So one is the Internships
and Fellowships Office.
The second is American
Folklife Center.
And the third is the
Digital Strategy Directorate.
And the Digital Strategy
Directorate is where I work,
and it's where the Connecting
Communities Digital Initiative
has its home.
So we'll talk about CCDI
in a moment, but first just
to spend a moment
on the other 2/3,
the other 2/3 we're
not going to spend most
of our time talking about.
First is the Internship
and Fellowships program.
And they're offering a range of
opportunities for young people
or people of any age who are
currently in, students to intern
or have paid fellowships,
paid learning opportunities,
internship opportunities
at the Library of Congress.
There're, currently there are, I
think something in the low 40s,
a number of internships
available
through the Junior
Fellows Program.
I really encourage
you to take a look
at the incredible opportunities
that we're providing
for undergraduate
and graduate students
and recent graduates for,
through the Internships
and Fellowships Program.
In addition, that's
1/3, the second 1/3 is
through the American
Folklife Center.
So they're also offering grants.
They're called Community
Collections Grants,
and they're supporting cultural
documentation by communities.
So that means public
participation in the creation
of archival collections seeking
to support contemporary
cultural documentation focussing
on the cultures and traditions
of diverse often
underrepresented communities
in the United States.
So they posted a call for
proposals, sorry, for grants,
a note of funding
opportunity for grants.
They posted that a
couple of months ago,
and that application
period is now closed.
They're currently in
the review process.
And they'll be awarding ten
grants through that program
in this funding round.
And then they're going to
reopen it again next year
and offer another ten.
There will be three
annual rounds of funding.
And in addition to the
funding for that program,
AFC will offer training in
cultural documentation methods,
things like interviews and
photographs and the preparation
and management of digital files.
And a big part of that is
actually adding those digital
collections to the collections
of the American Folklife Center,
really broadening the
Library's collections
by enabling communities to
tell their own experiences
from their own perspectives, to
document their own experiences.
So those are the two
pieces of the program
that I won't be talking as much
about, but that you can hear,
you can read and
follow much more closely
on the Of the People blog.
So please keep an
eye out for those.
Okay, so now to the Connecting
Communities Digital Initiative.
As I said, this initiative
is brand new.
It's just getting
up and running now.
In fact, I'm just
shepherding it into its,
until we've hired
the full-time staff
who will be running the
program for four years,
the four-year members.
And so we're hiring those now.
In the meantime, though, the
program is just beginning
to get up and running.
And it is inspired by the
work that happened elsewhere
in digital strategy,
the work of LC Labs.
They've been incubating
innovative projects
with technology.
They've been experimenting
with project programs
like the Innovater-in-Residence
program,
which I encourage
you to check out.
That was what produced
Citizen DJ,
which is an extraordinarily cool
remixing audio from the Library
of Congress into samples to make
them useful for hip-hop artists.
Or Newspaper Navigator,
which allows,
it's an incredible resource.
It takes the Chronicling America
newspapers and actually pulls
out the images from
those newspapers
and makes them searchable
through a machine
learning application.
There's a lot of really,
really cool programs in,
that labs has been running.
And so part of the Connecting
Communities Digital Initiative
is inspired by the
work of LC Labs.
However, it also has
another inspiration.
And that other inspiration
is the communities
around the country,
specifically black communities,
indigenous communities,
Asian-American,
Pacific Islander communities,
Hispanic and Latino communities,
have been gathering
and sharing stories
about their own histories.
Creating their own collections
or pulling them together
insisting on their presence
in a narrative of the American
history that is broader
and deeper, richer and more true
than we might otherwise see.
And so all across the country
people are using technology
to share their manuscripts,
their letters, their archives,
their photographs,
music and film.
And all the kinds of
things that the Library
of Congress has been
investing in digitizing
from across our huge
collections.
So the Library of Congress
has been digitizing
and collecting more
digital materials
for a long time,
for decades now.
And, you know, they're not
always visible to folks
who are documenting
the histories
within their own communities.
And so the purpose
of the Connecting Communities
Digital Initiative is
to make the Library
of Congress's digital
collections useful for and used
by communities around the
country, especially communities
of color who have, whose
materials are across
and within the Library's
collections.
So that's the reason
for the opportunity.
How do we anticipate doing that?
We have a number of
funding opportunities.
One is the Artist Or
Scholar in Residence.
There are information
webinars about that and,
that you can find online,
and you can see the
recordings or see new ones.
And this is a grant application
that's for an individual.
So the one, the opportunity
for Libraries, Archives,
Museums is part of an
organizational grant.
So we'll give it to an
organization or a nonprofit.
The Artist or Scholar
in Residence is
for an individual
artist or scholar.
It's a two-year residency.
So we'll, it's about $150,000
is the budget for that one.
And we'll fund someone to engage
with the digital
library collections,
demonstrate the possibilities.
I'm really excited
about that program.
I hope that you'll share
it and check it out.
Another part of the program is a
grant which you've probably seen
for higher education
institutions,
targeting minority-serving
higher education institutions.
And in that grant, much like
in the one that you'll hear
about for the rest of this
webinar, it's to support,
up to $60,000 to
support the development
of a digital interface,
publication, exhibit
or experimental approach
to bringing digital Library
of Congress material together
with a course, program
or interest group that
will make use of it
for educational purposes
at a two-
or four-year higher
education institution.
So that's the higher ed one.
And you can check that
out on the website
and also view webinars about
it if you're interested.
Okay, now to this one.
So, first of all,
it says "open now."
But in, for all three of the
opportunities through CCDI,
this one, the grant for
Libraries, Archives,
and Museums, the one I just
talked about, the higher ed one,
and the Artist and
Scholar Residence,
we just on Friday afternoon
were able to push the deadline
for those grants back a month.
So if you signed up for
this thinking you had
to get it done really soon,
I'm happy to report that,
as of last week,
this grant will not,
this opportunity will be
open until December 17th.
So that's been updated
on the website.
You can find it there.
But this application is
now due December 17th.
So you have a little bit more
time than you perhaps thought.
And I'll tell you the truth
is that we heard feedback
from the very people
we were looking to work
with that institutions
with strained budgets don't
have time, didn't have time
to get together all the
things that they needed
for this application process.
So we heard that, and we
extended the deadline.
And I really hope
that that helps
and makes it a little
bit easier.
So, okay, speaking of what
is all necessary to apply
for this grant, let's
get into it.
Okay, the main place to look for
how, for answers to questions
about the grant is the notice
of funding opportunities.
December 14th, did I
say something other
than December 14th?
>> Eileen Jakeway Manchester: I
think you said 17th, but 14th.
>> Laurie Allen: Oh, my gosh.
This has come up
very many times.
I will tell you the truth,
December 17th is my
sister's birthday.
And it has been so engrained
in me to say December 17th
that I have made this mistake.
I'm so sorry everyone.
The deadline for
applying is December 14th.
I really apologize,
December 14th.
Oh, sorry about that.
Okay, the other deadline is
December 21st for the Artist
and Scholar in Residence.
And I'll just say that my
birthday is December 23rd.
So this has become, this has
been a problem many times
on both of them, and
I'm just really sorry.
Okay, December 14th is
the deadline for applying.
And I believe it's
right on the website.
So, my goodness, it's
probably worth a try,
worth double checking.
But here we go.
The answer to questions about
how to apply for this Notice
of Funding Opportunity
is to read the Notice
of Funding Opportunity.
It is a long document.
I'm going to go through it
with you to help you kind
of get a handle on
what it's really saying
and what we're really
asking for.
What is being required of
you and which places you need
to sort of check the box
and say, yep, I saw that.
And which places do you need to
actually really do something?
And what is that?
So we're going to
go through it today.
But that's really
where the answers are.
So read the full Notice
of Funding Opportunity.
It has a lot of sections,
but you definitely want
to pay attention to the
program description.
That's Section A. That
stuff's really important.
It's about why are
we doing this?
And what do we think
is going to happen?
The eligibility requirements to
make sure that this is a good,
that this opportunity,
that you're eligible.
And then Section D
is really a bunch
of the meat of the application.
It's what do you
actually need to put
into your package to submit?
And then Section E is about,
what is the Library going
to be looking at when
they review applications?
And what actually gets awarded?
So those are the
sections to really call
out and pay attention to.
And let me go through
them one by one.
Oh, sorry, first,
how to get to them.
So in order to get to the
Notice of Funding Opportunity,
you can go through grants.gov,
but I encourage you to start
with the Library's
website, to start with this
Of the People blog and then
click on the link to the grant
for this page, because on
this page you'll find lots
more information.
It's the same information,
but it's a little
bit more condensed.
It's a little easier
to look through.
The questions and
answers are drawn
from real questions
that we really get.
So if you're wondering
something, those question
and answer spot is a great
place to start looking.
But in order to get to the
Notice of Funding Opportunity,
you need to click, visit
this link, which is here,
and it's all over the website.
Visit the notice on grants.gov
and click on "Related Documents"
and download all forms.
So here's the grants.gov.
You click on "Related
Documents,"
and you get this download of the
Notice of Funding Opportunity.
So here it is as you see.
It has the sections.
The, you know, Section A
is the program description.
Section C is that eligibility.
D is this long section that's
about what do you
actually need to submit.
And then E is application
review.
What are we going to review?
What are we going to look for?
And, as you can see,
project, Section F is like,
once whoever has the award,
what are they going
to have to report on?
So those are the sections.
Let's get through them.
Let's start looking closely.
Okay, purpose.
So why did the Library
of Congress do this?
So what's the purpose?
The Library of Congress
will expand the connections
between the Library
and diverse communities
and strengthen the
use of Library
of Congress digital
collections and digital tools.
The Library of Congress
seeks to award a grant
to support the creative
and wide-ranging use
of Library collections and the
connective powers of technology
to serve black, indigenous,
Hispanic or Latino,
Asian-American and Pacific
Islander or other racial
and ethnic minority populations
within the United States
in sharing stories
about America's past,
present, and future.
Projects funded through
this program will use items
from the Library's digital
collections and may describe,
display, and remix them
in keeping with copyright
and other laws in whatever
ways are most valuable
to their own context.
So for this grant,
technology can be simple,
or it can be complex.
Successful applicants may
develop new technologies,
or they can make use
of existing platforms
and tools or approaches.
So social media or
multimedia productions.
The important factor is
the connections it enables
in communities and the
impact of the project
on its creators,
users, and audiences.
I know that reading slides
out loud isn't the most popular
thing, but I think this part
of why are we doing this
and what do we expect
helps people get a sense
of what we're really
looking for.
The important factor is
the connection it enables
in communities and the
impact of the project
on its creators,
audience, and users.
You can make, there are
all kinds of complex
or simple ways to
use technology.
And we just want to see
you describe, display,
or remix collections in
whatever ways are most valuable
to their own context, as long
as it's in keeping with the law.
Okay, so what are you actually
going to get the money to do?
Well, design and
implement digital projects.
So that's interfaces,
exhibits, multimedia productions
or publications that use
digital library materials
from the Library of Congress
and engage black, indigenous
or other community
members of color.
And just to note, the funded
project will not be incorporated
into Library collections
or hosted
on the Library's
technical infrastructure.
So, okay, who is, so
that's Section A; right?
What's this about?
Section C, the eligibility
information.
Who is this particular
grant for?
Libraries, archives, museums
or community archives.
And you have to be
nonprofit or unit of state
or local government or federally
recognized tribal community
or tribe.
Okay, that's the eligibility.
There's other things in
the eligibility section,
but they're, those
are the big ones.
Okay, Section D. Section D,
as I said, is the long one
where we say, what does an
application need to include?
So an application
needs to include,
starts with this DUNS number.
So you have to go to
a place called SAM.gov
and register your entity,
register your organization.
And the reason we
have it first is
because it can take a few days
or even longer, maybe
a week or so.
I can't estimate.
It's not done by the Library,
but it can take a couple days,
so we encourage to you start the
process by getting a DUNS number
and registering with SAM.gov.
And there's information about
how to do that on the web site
and all over the place.
Getting a DUNS number
should be free.
There are free ways to do it.
So just making sure that
you follow the links and get
that number, because
we need it for,
we can't make an
award without it.
You need the proposal narrative.
We're going to talk a
lot more about what's
in that proposal
narrative in a moment.
Budget plan worksheet
and budget narrative.
And then a short form.
Okay, let's talk about
the proposal narrative.
So this is where you tell us
what you're planning to do
and what's going to happen.
So there's a required
cover page.
You have to describe
your organization.
So what kind of place is this?
Who is going to work
on this project?
And then a detailed
description of the project,
which we are pretty specific
about what we mean there.
A description of
past activities.
And that's where you can
include links or, you know,
news articles about something
your library or archive
or museum has done in
the past that's relevant.
And then there's
another section that says
"Other Information,
Conditional."
And that's a section
that's really for where,
if your organization meets
certain requirements,
then you have to fill
that Section 6 out,
we need more information.
Otherwise you don't
have to include it.
Okay, so the detailed
description of the project.
So give us a description of
who's going to be served?
Who's, where are you?
What communities will
be impacted by this?
What will you do?
Description of planned
activities
and how they'll make
a difference.
What from the Library
of Congress do you
think that you'll use?
And will you be mixing
in any local collections?
Why did you choose the
technologies that you chose?
What are you going to
do that is digital?
And why? That doesn't mean
that, fancier the better.
It just means, why are
you using the technologies
that you're using?
And then, once you've done it,
how will the outcomes be shared?
So who will learn
about it and how?
So will you be having an
event or anything like that?
Which isn't required, but we
want to know what the plan is.
And then a work plan, which
is really just a timeline.
What will happen when over
the course of the project?
Okay, so that's the narrative.
And that's eight pages.
It's described as
being eight pages.
You can add appendices.
So if you've got project
staff and you want
to include their resumes, which
I think we ask that you do,
those can go into appendices.
But the eight pages is
for all that information.
Okay, so now the budget.
There's two pieces
to the budget.
One is a budget plan worksheet.
That is, it's a spreadsheet.
It's an Excel spreadsheet
that you'll, that's available
with the NOFO on grants.gov.
You just download it when
you download the Notice
of Funding Opportunity.
It's a spreadsheet.
It has categories like
salary, wages and benefits.
Travel. Equipment.
Supplies. Contractual
and other costs.
And then, so that's, you use
the spreadsheet to tell us
where the money will go.
And then you have to
write a budget narrative,
which basically just
tells us the same thing
but tells us what actually
the money's going to go to
and how does it connect to the
proposal so that we make sure
that the budget part and
the proposal part match up
and make sense together.
So that's the budget narrative.
And then there's a form,
it looks like this.
It's a pretty straightforward
form.
But it will, yeah, so
this is the last piece.
And then, and this is another
one of these questions,
things we get in the
Q&A all the time.
You have to e-mail
your grant application.
So rather than applying
through grants.gov,
once you have all the pieces of
an application, you send them
to us via e-mail to
this address here.
And that's when we
will [inaudible],
and that's how we'll get them.
We don't use grants.gov
for applying.
Okay, so this webinar
is being recorded.
I pointed you to the website.
I'll call attention to the fact
that you can also e-mail
questions to LOC-Grants@loc.gov,
as long as you include
this subject,
which is the grant
number for this, sorry,
the Notice of Funding
Opportunity number, oops.
And then we'll, we're, just
I just uploaded a bunch
of Q&As today that we've
already gotten to the blog.
So thank you for those.
Okay, let's get to
some questions.
Please, please fill out
the Q&A with questions.
And if there aren't questions,
I'll go through some of the,
what does the Library have?
But hopefully there
are some questions.
>> Eileen Jakeway
Manchester: Hey, Laurie.
We have one sort of
comment in the Q&A right now
about a project that has sort
of just nearly missed the call
for the community
collections grants.
I don't know if this
person wants to follow-up
with a question or just
wanted to share that.
It does sound like
an amazing project.
>> Laurie Allen: Yeah, so I will
say the community collections
grants will be reissued.
And I can't give you a
precise date on that.
But there is, you know, this
round was the first round,
and there will be
two more rounds
for this grant opportunity.
So the community
collections grant
from American Folklife
Center is,
will be issuing another call.
And I know they got a number
of really great applications.
So I'm sorry to hear
that you missed it.
And they'll be reissuing.
And if you think that
it's an appropriate,
if you think the project
is an appropriate one
for this opportunity -- that is,
if it reuses Library
of Congress --
-- through the Library of
Congress, I'm sorry, yeah.
If you're going to be reusing
Library of Congress collections,
that is, then maybe
this a good opportunity.
You know, just read the
NOFO closely to see.
Otherwise that, the
American Folklife Center will
be reposting.
>> Eileen Jakeway
Manchester: Awesome.
Thank you for that
additional context, Laurie.
So we do have a question right
now from someone who wants
to know more about the use
of the term "communities"
and "community archives."
Because it seems to imply,
according to this person,
that the community has to
be geographically located
and from an institution.
But this project
team is dispersed.
And although they normally
apply through an institution,
the community is Latino.
>> Laurie Allen: Thank you.
I really appreciate this, and
it's, we have gotten questions
about whether communities
always are,
have to be in the same
place a number of times.
And it's helping me realize
that we probably want to refine
that in future versions of this.
We don't see communities
as being geographically
based necessarily at all.
So a community, you
know, if the members
of the community share an
understanding that they're
in the same community,
and, I mean,
I think one of the
really exciting things
about technology is that it
allows for community coalescing
around online spaces or
through any kind of means.
So I certainly wouldn't
limit the term "community"
to geospatial communities.
I will say that in terms of
the organizational types,
so "community archives" is
a term that is, does not,
it doesn't necessarily mean
like neighborhood archives.
I think, in fact,
one of the members
of our advisory board
is up for this program.
Samip Mallick, for example,
is the Executive Director
of the South Asian
American Digital Archive.
And I would say that, you
know, he is very active
in conversations about
community archives.
And the South Asian
American Digital Archive is a
digital archive.
So it's a community
archive online.
And so that certainly
is inside the bounds
of what we're describing.
And the term "community
archive" is certainly one
that we want to interpret
broadly.
I hope that that helps.
That said, there does need to be
an organization that is applying
for this, because this is
an organizational grant.
So it would need
to be some entity.
>> Eileen Jakeway
Manchester: Thanks, Laurie.
We've had one question
come in through the chat,
and I'm happy to
address it here.
Just for future kind of
tracking purposes, it is easier
to put things in the
Q&A panel in Zoom.
And let me know directly
if you have questions
about accessing that.
So this is actually a great
segue unless there are more
questions that come in,
because this question is asking
for examples of types
of projects
that the Library would
use, serve as part
of this call for proposals.
>> Laurie Allen: Great question.
Okay, we have actually,
again, in the Notice
of Funding Opportunity,
there is a list of, you know,
these are meant to inspire
and absolutely not limit.
So ideas meant to inspire
and not limit, but we did,
knowing that it's really
easier to see ideas.
So these are some ideas
of what we could imagine.
For example, a small-house
museum might be awarded funds
to create a lightweight digital
exhibit for their gallery
that showcases Library
of Congress materials
along side others
that complement their
collections and focus
and invite participants to add
their own digital collections.
That's like an idea of
something that might be done.
Or maybe a public library has
already been keeping a local
database that speaks
to the histories
of local immigrant communities.
And in this case they
will use grant funds
to expand the resources
by including Library
of Congress materials that
speak to the same histories
across the country
or even in that area.
So you can see these are
pulled directly from the Notice
of Funding Opportunity, and
I hope that they are useful
for that sort of
inspiration there.
>> Eileen Jakeway
Manchester: Thank you, Laurie.
So the next question might
be directed for Hope.
It's about copyright and broadly
about which guidelines the
Library of Congress has
for copyright [inaudible].
>> Hope O'Keeffe: It's hard to
answer that in the abstract.
I'm aware of both of those.
We do allow some thumbnail
sharing on our website,
but it's, but the fact that
it's a thumbnail does not
automatically mean
that it's permissible
if it's not appropriately
described in the collection,
if that makes sense, if it's
not appropriately described
in the text.
So we don't allow even
thumbnails of images
that are purely there
for entertainment and not
because we're talking about the
image or because the image is,
needs to be relevant to
it, if that makes sense.
We generally, to the degree that
you are using images that are
on the Library's website --
because the whole purpose
of this grant is to talk
about our digital collections
-- that it's on our website
and you can access it as
a thumbnail or if it's
on our website and you can
access it in full size,
you can assume that it's
been cleared for copyright
for purposes of your project.
And there's, it's in the chat,
it's not in the chat yet.
There is guidance on
our website specifically
on copyright in general, but.
>> Laurie Allen:
Yeah, thanks, Hope.
>> Hope O'Keeffe: But the
other thing that I would say is
that copyright clearance is an
appropriate part of your budget,
to the cost of getting
permissions or obtaining rights.
>> Laurie Allen:
Yeah, thanks, Hope.
This is making me think that we,
that I want to make sure to add
that to the Q&A on
the three grant pages.
Because I think the
question of, I mean,
I think what you just said
sort of, if you're able
to access the images
from a public website,
then they are legal to be
shown on our website at least.
And there's some
information there
about what you can do with them.
So that's, I think we just want
to, yeah, follow-up on that.
Thank you.
>> Eileen Jakeway
Manchester: Thank you, Laurie.
So the next question is
pretty specific about whether
or not a project that
proposes the digitization
of a local collection
for showcase,
I think with having some kind
of a relationship or touch point
with the Library of Congress
collection, whether or not
that would be in
scope for this grant?
>> Laurie Allen: I, so I
think I have to follow-up.
I think that, I know that the
Mellon Foundation has some
prohibitions on using
funds for digitization.
And I just need to be, I
just need to double check.
I believe that, as long as
the, you know, if a grant is,
you know, most of
the money's going
to digitize your
local collection
and a very small part is like,
and here's a few pictures
from the Library of Congress,
that's probably not going to be
as compelling in terms of the
ways that we evaluate projects
than one in which the Library's
collections are really,
are having a big
impact on the project.
So that isn't to say, I don't
believe they're, you're not,
like, if, you know,
digitizing a small part
of local collections is
important, I think it's allowed,
and I'm just not
100 percent sure.
And so I want to make sure
that I follow-up on that.
But I think the purpose
needs to be, you know,
it can't be just a little
Library collections and a lot
of the other thing if all your
money is going to digitization.
I hope that answers that.
Yeah, no, I see the follow-up.
Thank you.
Yes, that sounds great.
Yeah, as far as I
know, it's okay.
I will just need to
really read the NOFO,
Notice of Funding Opportunity
closely to make sure
that it doesn't say
digitization is out,
but I don't remember
it saying that,
which means I think it's fine.
And I just need to be,
I'm like a little nervous.
But I, you know, there's no
theoretical reason why it's
not okay.
>> Eileen Jakeway Manchester:
That's all the questions
at the moment.
Oh, we got a few more coming in.
All right.
To what degree are we looking
for applicants to use Library
of Congress collections
for the grant?
And then there's some more
specific questions about,
how many materials
would make it eligible?
How central they need to be?
And access to a Library of
Congress librarian to talk more
about any national materials
that might speak to their topic
of "urban renewal" in quotes
and red lining policies.
>> Laurie Allen: Okay, this is
a great segue to the next piece.
So in terms of the Library
of Congress' collections need
to be central versus supportive,
I think I'll just point you
to the Notice of
Funding Opportunity,
the kind of where is
the, sorry, I'll, to the,
what are we considering?
What are the factors
for consideration
when we look at applications?
But certainly that, you
know, what we're looking
for is impact on the community.
And you have to use
Library collectins,
but it doesn't say you have
to primarily use
Library collections.
It just says impact
on the community.
So I would point you to
those, you know, the,
like I said before, we wouldn't
want the use of the collections
to just be, you know,
very slight of the Library
of Congress's collections,
but I don't think that,
we're not measuring here.
I don't think that's
anyone's interest in sort of,
yeah, we're not measuring.
So, okay, onto the second part
of your question, because I want
to point to a couple places.
So one is we do have
these really great guides,
and they're made by curators
and librarians across the agency
who have this real
deep expertise.
I would absolutely
encourage you to take a look
at the guides.loc.gov interface.
And, you know, we have
really great guides
to what's available
from the Library.
And so, you know, here
are a couple of examples.
Jazz Research at the
Library of Congress.
Here's, you know,
collections that you can look
to or be interested in.
Or here's one about
Native American Spaces,
Cartographic Resources,
which I love this guide
and what it offers.
Another here about
Filipino-American Materials.
So there's a lot of really,
really valuable guides.
And, yes, there is an
ask-a-librarian-service.
It's a fantastic service
staffed by people.
So there are people on
the other end of this.
Librarians from across
the Library or librarians
who have great expertise
who are available.
You can send in questions for
the ask-a-librarian service,
and folks will help point
you in the right direction.
And it's a really great service.
I very strongly encourage
folks to take a look at that.
Yeah. So are there more
questions that we can --
>> Eileen Jakeway
Manchester: Not at the moment.
But I'm so glad that
that question was asked
because it really is, ask a
librarian is a fantastic service
that I think will
be helpful here.
But also, just more generally,
if there are ever questions
about our collections, it's
a really fantastic resource.
>> Laurie Allen: All right.
Well, I'm going to hope
some of are you typing,
pulling together
your questions now.
But, and, again, we'll post
this webinar and the others.
And the time is now
December 14th.
So they've got a
little bit more time.
All right.
Not seeing anymore questions.
Thank you all -- oh, great.
Thank you all so
much for joining us.
And please, you know, reach
out with, you can e-mail
that CCDI -- let me
go back, whatever --
the e-mail address that I
will find in one moment --
with specific questions.
And we, I really hope that some
of you will submit applications.
Thank you so much
for joining us.
Oh, I see a couple
more questions came in.
I'll try to grab those.
One is about funder's, you
know, the specifics of copyright
and expectation of sort
of, how much do we know?
What I'll say is this is the
first year, the first time
that the Library of Congress has
offered this grant opportunity.
I think we, I can say we tried
to be absolutely as clear
as possible about what
we wanted in the Notice
of Funding Opportunity.
You know, it's, we certainly do
want, we didn't, there's nothing
that we know that we
didn't put in the Notice
of Funding Opportunity
as clearly as we could.
There's no, you know,
secret agenda.
That said, there might be
things that are not clear
and that we'll learn
for next year.
And we would love to hear
feedback on the process
and what is and isn't
clear and what's confusing.
In terms of copyright,
it's a tricky, you know,
it's a tricky field, but we
certainly really want, you know,
where it is okay to
use our collections,
we really want to see them used.
So and the information about
copyright's on the website.
We don't read drafts.
We can't. The Library
of Congress does not provide
individual review of drafts.
It's not a thing that we're set
up to do, so we're not going
to do that in this case.
And then there's
a question about,
how do your international
collections connect
with this grant opportunity?
And what I would say is I think
there are many possible ways
that they could.
And we're going to
leave that to applicants
to help us see those
connections.
I think so much of this
whole grant opportunity is
about finding connections we
might not have otherwise seen.
And so we're really interested
to see what connections come
in through applications and
what connections people see
when they look the
our collections.
Thank you all so much.
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