FY 2002

From the Director...
Thank You for Making a Difference @ your library™

he Library Commission’s Making a Difference @ your library™ project is featured in the Commission’s FY 2002 Year in Review. Nearly half of the Library Commission’s staff members were involved in visits made in 270 public libraries. The project was a great learning experience for Commission staff. Meeting with library personnel, trustees, community leaders, and residents is the best way to develop a better understanding of each community’s make-up, priorities, successes, and challenges. We enjoyed wonderful hospitality from our library colleagues and renewed appreciation for the services provided by Nebraska’s public libraries. Without question, Nebraska libraries do make a positive and significant difference.

Even more, it is the Nebraska library workforce, trustees, and friends that make a difference. What separates Nebraska communities that are thriving from those that are struggling is community leadership. In 1987, The Heartland Center for Leadership Development published Clues to Rural Community Survival. In this book, Vicki Luther and Milan Wall, co-directors of the Heartland Center, described the critical factors (clues) for community survival. These factors are applicable to Nebraska libraries. Good libraries are one result of people taking pride in their community and contributing time and effort to making their community better.

Libraries thrive where people support the library as a significant community asset, and where library board members act in community leadership roles. Nebraska communities that survive and thrive have library staff with skills, knowledge, and enthusiasm. The Making a Difference @ your library™ challenge is to provide the education, information, and funding support needed to recruit and retain a library workforce that continues to make a difference now and in the years to come.
Thank you to the "difference-makers" in Nebraska communities who help make the quality of life better through Nebraska libraries.

Rod Wagner                   


Funding/Grants FY 2002

July 2, 2001 through June 30, 2002
Grants Funded FY 2002

Center for the Book

$7,500.00
Children’s Grants for Excellence
41,480.00
CHIRS (Consumer Health Information Resource Service)
885.50
Interlibrary Loan (Lender Compensation)
130,931.50
ICON (Health HQ) Web site
5,000.00
Library Systems
658,984.07
LSTA Grants
296,630.00
Motion Picture Licensing for Public Libraries
16,810.00
State Aid to Public Libraries
364,071.00
Technology Grants
78,206.37

Libraries for the 21st Century Grants

Bibliostat™ (software and training)
$16,000.00
OCLC CatExpress Libraries
6,478.00
Online Databases
348,181.86
Sponsorship of Statewide Conferences
3,500.00
Training and Continuing Education Grants
43,608.00
Master of Library Science Scholarships
5,000.00
Total Grants
$2,023,266.30

Funding FY 2002

State Funds
$3,637,560.86
Federal Funds
1,054,486.01
Cash Funds
78,584.52
Total Funding
$4,770,631.39



Year in Review FY 2002 • Vol. 9 No. 3

NCompass is a quarterly publication of the Nebraska Library Commission, The Atrium, 1200 N Street, Suite 120, Lincoln, NE 68508-2023. Phone: 402-471-2045 or 800-307-2665 (in Nebraska only). Fax: 402-471-2083. Home Page: <nlc.nebraska.gov> ISSN: 1075-9719.
Director: Rod Wagner
Editor: Mary Jo Ryan
Design and Production: Valerie Dayton
Staff: Jacqueline Crocker, Mary Geibel, Janet Greser, Cynthia Hobbs

Nebraska Library Commissioners: Karen Warner, Norfolk, term expires 2003; Robert King, Holdrege, term expires 2003; Wally Seiler, Chair, Alliance, term expires 2004; Richard Jussel, Kearney, term expires 2004; Velma Sims-Shipley, Fremont, term expires 2004; Kristen Rogge, Johnson, term expires 2002. Commission meetings are held the second Friday of every other month, or as scheduled by public action of the board.


Preparation of this newsletter was supported in part by funds allocated through the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services.



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