CMRLS Mini Grants

Start new things ... inspire others ... apply for a mini grant! CMRLS awards mini grants to help jump start new program ideas. Projects that go beyond your library and help to influence and inspire others are especially desirable.

We are looking for new progam ideas that others have not yet tried, collaborative efforts that will have an impact beyond your community, or ways to help boost your collections!

FY2010 Mini Grant Award Winners - Round 2

All Round 2 grant awardees were new applicants for FY2010 mini grants! We were not able to fund any requests for additional funds for Round 1 projects.

Collections

Boylston Public Library - America the Beautiful series - $1,508
Chester C. Corbin Library, Webster - YA collection - $1,000
Fitchburg Public Library - Health and Medical Collection - $1,000
Grafton Public Library - Audio collection - $1,000
Haston Free Public Library, North Brookfield - Parenting collection - $1,000
Hubbardston Public Library - YA Playaways - $1,000
Levi Heywood Public Library - YA collection- $1,000
Marlborough Public Library - Playaways - $1,000
Millbury Public Library - Games collection - $1,000
Notre Dame Academy - Playaways - $1,000
Petersham Memorial Library - Audio CD titles - $1,000
Phineas S. Newton Library, Royalston - Books on CD - $1,000
Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster - Borrowing Outside the Box project - $1,000
Townsend Public Library - Games collection - $1,000
Westborough Public Library - Games collection - $1,000

Collaboration

Oxford Free Public Library - Early literacy outreach project - $1,000
Sutton Public Library - YA programming in collaboration with Millbury Public Library - $1,000
Woods Memorial Library, Barre - Bookcase and display project with Monty Tech - $1,000

Innovation

Grafton Middle School - ALA Read software - $500
Nashoba Regional High School Media Center - Sony E-book reader pilot project - $1,000
Westborough Public Schools - Digital Audio and assistive technology project - $1,000
Conant Library, Nichols College - Instant ILL with Kindles - $1,000

FY2010 Mini Grant Award Winners - Round 1

Space Planning

Florence Roche Elementary School Library, Groton - $1,500
Bartlett Jr/Sr High School - Jeremiah A. Moriarty Library, Webster - $1,500
Tantasqua Regional Junior High Library - $1,500
Tahanto Regional Middle/High School Library - $1,500

Thanks to Demco for their generous gift of a $100 gift certificate that will be put toward a space planning project. The winner is Suzanne Larson at the Bartlett Jr/Sr High School - Jeremiah A. Moriarty Library, Webster. Thanks also to Rolf Erikson who contacted Demco on our behalf. Rolf will be visiting each of the school libraries to discuss their space as part of the grant award.

Collections

Joshua Hyde Library - Early Literacy and Fun (ELF): Book-in-Hand program - $1,000
Ashby Free Library – Books on CD - $1,000
Beaman Memorial Public Library – YA non-fiction collection - $1,500
Hudson Public Library - Videogames - $1,500
Charlton Public Library – Transparent Language flash drives - $1,030
St. Julie Library, St. Michael School – Engineering Club collection - $1,000
Millville Free Public Library – Books on CD - $990
Uxbridge Free Public Library – Community health collection - $1,000
Milford Town Library - Adult and children's videogames - $1,000
Leominster Public Library – Mental illness collection - $1,000
East Brookfield Public Library – Playaways - $1,000
Bellingham Public Library – Kits for Home Schoolers and Elementary and Middle School Teachers - $1,000
Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School – Audiobook collection and players - $1,000

Collaboration

Northborough Free Library - Nature Trek Packs - $1,000
Athol Public Library – Author visit to schools and public library by Loree Griffin Burns - $1,400
Richard Sugden Library - Teens providing computer skills instruction to seniors/adults - $1,000
Worcester Academy - Book Buddies’ Collaborative Outreach Program - $1,000
Venerini Academy – Visit from Yoko Watkins, author of So Far from the Bamboo Grove - $1,100
Jacob Edwards Library – Customer Service Training (Southbridge, Charlton, Dudley, Sturbridge and Webster) - $500

Innovation

Shrewsbury Public Library - The Traveling Gameshow - $1,000
Lunenburg Public Library - Kindles - $1,000
Worcester Public Library – Mobile Reference with an iPhone - $1,000

FY09 Mini Grant Program

The CMRLS Executive Board voted not to award grants in FY09 due to budget concerns.

FY08 Mini Grant Awards:

Jacob Edwards Library, Southbridge for the continuation of their Southbridge History Digitial Project. Funds were used to add photographs, pamphlets maps and newspapers to the Digital Treasures collections- $1,500

Leominster Public Library for their Library Pathfinder Project which teamed up library staff with school curriulum and technology personnel to jointly develop 3 web-based library pathfinders - $1,500

	Posters and Bookmark
	Don't Plagiarize poster
	Need Homework Help? poster
	Ninjas bookmark

WPI's Gordon Library for a YouShoot Riot Gordon Library Video Contest in which users created videos on the use of library facilities, materials and resources. - $675

	Contest promotion and sample videos
	Contest poster

FY07 Mini Grant Awards:

Athol Public Library

The Listening into the Library project created podcasts to promote new library titles. $630

Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale

Funded digitization of the Practical Christian, a publication of the Rev. Adin Ballou, a founder of the Hopedale Community. Title was added to the Digital Treasures repository. - $1500

Milford Town Library

Used Camtasia to produce tutorials on using Internet Explorer to search the web. - $1500

	Internet Explorer 7 Tutorials

Nichols College

The Libraries Mean Business Project produced and distributed a brochure to promote business and finance databases to the business community - $1490

Make Informed Busine$$ Decisions brochure

Find out more!

For information on CMRLS mini grants or to discuss an idea you are thinking of submitting contact Margaret Cardello.

This page last updated on February 19, 2010

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