Utah State Library

UPLIFT Professional Excellence Grant: This training grant is available to persons employed in Utah libraries for advancing their knowledge, skills, and abilities and to better serve their patrons.

UPLIFT Organization Resource Grant: This grant is available to libraries, groups of libraries, and formal library organizations for specialized library training. It allows organizations to upgrade the skills of library staff, trustees, and their supporters by addressing local needs.

New in 2007: projects must meet at least one of LSTA's six goals:

1. Expand services for learning and access to information and educational resources in a variety of formats, in all types of libraries, for individuals of all ages
2. Develop library services that provide all users access to information through local, state, regional, national, and international electronic networks
3. Provide electronic and other linkages between and among all types of libraries
4. Develop public and private partnerships with other agencies and community-based organizations
5. Target library services to individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, to individuals with disabilities, and to individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills
6. Target library and information services to persons having difficulty using a library and to underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line