IMLS Grant Announcement Process

Tell Us What You’re Doing

Think of IMLS as a partner in publicizing your grant project. We’d like to know if you produce a publication, create a website, or hold a large public event as part of your grant activities. IMLS uses several strategies to publicize grant announcements and the activities of IMLS-funded projects. Let us know about recent news coverage, or photos or videos from your grant.

Congressional Notification

We contact federal representatives and senators to provide them with advance notice of all awards three days before our public announcement by news release. If you have questions about IMLS and Congress, contact Gladstone Payton at gpayton@imls.gov.

Public Announcement

IMLS issues news releases for each grant program and posts them with lists of grant recipients on the IMLS website. IMLS also issues tweets and makes Facebook posts about grant program award announcements. If you have questions about a news release, contact Anthony C. Marucci at amarucci@imls.gov.

Submitting Photos

We highly encourage you to submit images of your community’s involvement with your project. They may be included in our publications, on our website, or on the IMLS Facebook page. Images should be 300 dpi or higher. Please include caption and credit information, as well as a completed photo release form (PDF, 44 KB). Email them to IMLSnews at IMLSnews@imls.gov.

Grant Spotlights

Each month, IMLS highlights an agency-funded project through a short feature story on the IMLS website. These stories are prominently positioned our homepage and in our monthly e-newsletter, IMLS News.

Grant Spotlights feature links to the grantee’s website, photos of the project in action, and contact information for the project director. If you would like to be considered for a Grant Spotlight, contact Erica Jaros at ejaros@imls.gov.

IMLS News

The IMLS e-newsletter, IMLS News, provides information for professionals and community members about the museum and library fields each month. In addition to highlighting a grantee institution selected for that month’s Grant Spotlight, each newsletter includes a compilation of the IMLS’s blog posts and news releases for the month, and a listing of appearances and presentations of IMLS staff at conferences and gatherings. Subscribe to IMLS News.

YouTube Channel

If you have created a video about your IMLS-funded project and have posted it on YouTube, we can like your video post from our IMLS YouTube Channel.