Catalyst Grant Final Report “STEAM To Go Kits” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. Kids love my STEAM programs but they can’t always attend them. This led me to think of STEAM to go where the child can borrow a STEAM kit and bring home to use on their own…
As people become more experienced, workplace safety walkarounds and evaluations can become worse — people have seen the same workplace so often that they don’t “see” it anymore. They can overlook hazards and risks because of their familiarity. One way to overcome this problem is to use tools that are structured, yet creative — tools which turn employees’ knowledge and experience into a valuable and decided advantage for doing workplace audits and assessments.
Catalyst Grant Final Report “Kitchen Academy” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. OCPL partnered with the Kitchen Literacy Project to present innovative food-related programs at Syracuse City Branch Libraries. Jessica Miller, coordinator of the Kitchen Literacy project, helped branches choose a program from their offerings that would appeal to branch…
Catalyst Grant Final Report “Books for Pro Se: Building a Do-It-Yourself Legal Collection” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. The Catalyst Grant funded a small collection of NOLO Press books to circulate to our public patrons. The books are unique from our legal collection in that they are written for…
Catalyst Grant Final Report “Libraries of the Future” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. Our original project aimed to collaborate with Oneida City School District art teachers and their classes on a special gallery, “Libraries of the Future,” celebrating the Oneida Public Library’s 100th anniversary. Students would envision what libraries…
Catalyst Grant Final Report “The Mobile Reference Station” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. Our project was aimed at giving our students more access to the online catalog than they currently have, and to make it wireless–capable of being moved around the library as needed for reference. Our current OPAC…
CLRC is happy to announce Special Professional Development Awards to facilitate your attendance at the ALA 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia!
Catalyst Grant Final Report “Food, Crafts, and Literacy, Oh My!” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. Skaneateles Library staff visited the Skaneateles Ecumenical Food Pantry twice a month on (the last Tuesday morning and Thursday evening) from March-December 2024. At each visit, we brought books in both Spanish & English…
Kristin Jeter Discusses Catalyst Grant Project, “Sensory-Friendly Equipment for Bird Library.”
Catalyst Grant Final Report “Play Together: Inclusive Community Gaming” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. The main mission of “Play Together” was to fulfill a need for free and reliable social activities for our patron population; particularly for adults with disabilities. I focused on 1) building a new collection of…