If you have ever applied for a grant with the Tocker Foundation, you know a local authority must sign off on the agreement below or you cannot submit the application. “It is agreed that local funding for this library will not be diminished, curtailed or cut in any way as a result of awarding this grant.” This clause protects libraries …
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Rhea Brown Lawson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Houston Public LibraryJasper’s Storytime in the Park during COVID
Libraries have been forced to get creative in responding to the challenges of the pandemic. Jasper Public Library found a way to maintain a beloved program – Storytime – and simultaneously support their community’s health. Staff enlarged the pages of a colorful children’s book and attached them to yard signs similar in size to real estate signs. Staked in the …