by Hadiyah Cleveland | May 24, 2023 | BLD Updates, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) News
Greetings Library Community The Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) is currently accepting applications for Statewide Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants. There is no dollar threshold; however, awards will be granted to the proposals that are the most...
by Carrie Cleary | May 15, 2023 | Broadband, Equity, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities
Read below about opportunities for libraries, as community anchor institutions, to continue to play a role to close the digital divide and attain greater digital equity for Pennsylvanians due to funding from the federal government that Pennsylvania will deploy through...
by Hadiyah Cleveland | Apr 5, 2023 | BLD News, BLD Updates, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) News
In May 2023, the Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) will begin accepting applications for Statewide Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants. There is no dollar threshold; however, awards will be granted to the proposals that are the most competitive and...
by Hadiyah Cleveland | Mar 30, 2023 | BLD News, BLD Updates, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) News
Greetings library community! As Heather Sharpe, Director – Bureau of Library Development (BLD), stated in her January article, “operationally, it was a very challenging year for BLD with the turnover and vacancy of more than half of our team, the addition of new...
by Ed Lupico | Mar 13, 2023 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities
Is your library and municipality planning to submit a Keystone Grants for Public Library Facilities application in the next year or two? Do you just want to learn more about the Keystone program and what it offers? If so, the Office of Commonwealth Libraries...
by Hadiyah Cleveland | Mar 10, 2023 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities
All entities that do business with the federal government or are granted federal funds like LSTA must be registered with SAM.gov. To make registering in SAM.gov easier, the federal government has reduced the number of new entities that need a Commercial and Government...
