The Librarian's Grants Handbook: Understanding the Grant Process from Start to Finish

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This book aims to help librarians develop grant proposals and juggle the differing demands of multiple collaborators both internally and externally.

Grants have long been a tool that allow libraries to increase their reach and offer access to more communities. Libraries are seen as a trusted bridge connecting communities with information and resources. They are often at the intersection of various disciplines, projects, and funding opportunities, making librarians a natural fit to lead grant development. The shifting realities of public, academic, and health sciences libraries today necessitate that information professionals must, more frequently, seek external funding for such projects. Yet few librarians are formally trained in grant-writing, nor in marshaling together a team of grant-seekers with varying positions, experiences, and knowledge fields. In addition, the institutional support staff that might have traditionally helped with such endeavors has frequently disappeared from rosters due to budgetary constraints within their institution, meaning that librarians seeking grants often do so without support often provided to academic researchers.

This book will be of particular use to librarians seeking funding for larger projects that allow more community outreach and librarians working to develop a grant proposal with faculty and community members who may lean on them for support.

Author Bio

Mary Piorun, PhD is the Director of the Lamar Soutter Library and the Network of National Library of Medicine, Region 7 at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Before joining UMass in 1999, Mary was a systems librarian at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Rockville, MD, and served in various other professional and intern positions in libraries in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Mary received her MSLS from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. and a Masters in Business Administration at Bentley College. In May 2008, Mary received the W. Michael Hoffman Prize for Business Ethics from the Bentley College, Center for Business Ethics. In January 2014, Mary completed a PhD in Managerial Leadership at Simmons College. Mary is a member of the Medical Library Association, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries New England Chapter.
Tony Nguyen, MLIS, AHIP, is the Executive Director for the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), Region 1 located at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The Region 1 Regional Medical Library provides programs, services, and dedicated support for NNLM members in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. In his role, he oversees the planning, implementation, management, and evaluation of the overall regional medical library program, the day-to-day operations of the office, and identify regional opportunities to support NLM priorities and NNLM initiatives. Prior to working at the NNLM, Nguyen served as a Hospital Librarian in Columbus, OH.

Abby Mann is the Online Learning Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University where she focuses on both creating online learning objects and helping faculty envision and design digital scholarship projects for pedagogical purposes. Her research interests include building DH communities within a library and the elements and resources librarians bring in to creating tutorials, especially in terms of constituent needs related to DEI.