Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The library at SUNY ESF is named the F. Franklin Moon Library or just “Moon”. Leaning into this – Librarian Jane Verostek wrote and received a solar eclipse grant from the CLRC Central New York Library Resources Council. This grant…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant was used to purchase 100 solar eclipse glasses for SUNY Upstate staff, faculty, and students. We advertised the glasses through our social media platforms and through flyers placed around the university and adjoining hospital. We provided the glasses…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. Ahead of the Total Solar Eclipse in April, Quinn Gardner, Petit Youth Services Librarian, arranged for Matt Fagan from the Museum of Science and Technology (MoST) to present on the Solar Eclipse. We held the program on a Saturday, 3/30,…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. We used the grant to buy craft items related to outer space. Each child received a small bag with a poster to decorate about their favorite planet, an outer space bookmark and a small wooden telescope to color. The kids…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The CLRC grant supported our plans to have Jake Edwards from the Onondaga Nation address a group of nearly 80 attendees about the significance of an eclipse to formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Funds supported staff time to set up…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. We utilized the CLRC eclipse grant for two programs. First, we used two copies of the picture book Eclipse by Andy Rash to create a StoryWalk around our library. Community members and school groups toured this display to learn what…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The Salina Library used our Solar Eclipse Grant money to purchase supplies for programming on the day of the April 8th eclipse. At 1 PM we held Family Eclipse Science where we talked about how a solar eclipse occurs and…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant was used to purchase snacks for our Astronaut Food Taste Testing program during our Solar Saturday event on April 6th. Seven different freeze dried snacks were placed in numbered pill boxes, where people would taste the sample and…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. The grant funding was used for eclipse-themed snacks, magnet parts for “Together Again” themed takeaways, advertising for social media for all 3 NOPL branches, and a Bluetooth speaker that was used to share solar eclipse information as well as eclipse-themed…
Please provide a brief narrative explaining what the grant was used for and its outcomes. In partnership with the Skaneateles Area Chamber of Commerce, the library hosted a viewing party for over 350 people at Austin Park, a centrally located park in town. Grant funds were used to purchase lawn games, colanders to view sun…