YOUR SCHOOL IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY IF IT MEETS THE FOLLOWING FIVE CRITERIA

1. Your school has been in operation for a minimum of one year prior to your application so that you are
able to provide accurate information about the percentage of students in your school eligible for the free or
reduced lunch program (FRL).
2. Your school has a student body where 80% or more of your students qualify for free or reduced lunches.
3. Your school has a school library that meets the definition immediately below: A library is a uniquely
designated space in which books and other materials are systematically classified and arranged by subject
and type. They are stored in a place and manner that allows access to all students and adults in the school.
Please note that the definition does not include classrooms or classroom sets of books, collections of books
stored in a room that are not organized and classified in a systematic way, or collections of books on rolling
carts of any description.
4. The day-to-day oversight and operation of your school library is carried out by a paid contracted staff
member who fits the definition immediately below: The person is designated by the school administration as
responsible for the collection, care, and use of the materials housed in the dedicated space of the library.
5. Your school has not previously received a grant from the Laura Bush Foundation for Americas Libraries.
Schools that have previously received a grant from the Laura Bush Foundation for Americas Libraries are
ineligible to apply.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR APPLICATION CANNOT BE READ IF IT IS INCOMPLETE

Every question asked must be answered. Where the question appears inapplicable to your particular
school, you must write in zero, not available, not applicable, none, no or some other
word that explains why you are not answering a question.

Applicatioin submissions are due Wednesday December 2, 2013 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time).

Questions regarding the application must be submitted by Friday November 22, 2013.

Applications must be submitted via the online application form. Applications sent via fax, mail, or email cannot be accepted.

All application questions must be completed. Incomplete applications cannot be considered.

To access and successfully complete the application, please use the following web browsers:
Internet Explorer, Safari, or Google Chrome. To use the calculation feature for several questions
within the application, please enable JavaScript.

To submit the application, make sure to click the Submit the Proposal to LBF button. An e-mail
will be generated to your e-mail address confirming delivery once the application is submitted.

We anticipate that recipients will be identified and awards will be made before the middle of May,
2014.

Important: Please read Frequently Asked Questions and the Scoring Rubric sections on this website
before filling out the application.
The Laura Bush Foundation for Americas Libraries is a fund of the Community Foundation for the National
Capital Region, an IRS approved 501 C (3). For general questions regarding the Foundation, please contact
us at laurabushfoundation@cfncr.org.
Before we begin, we are interested in how you first became aware of the LBF grant program. Please select
one of the following.
A. Professional journal
B. LBF website
C. LBF brochure
C. Vendor/Commercial Publisher
X

D. At a conference or convention

E. Online discussion group

F. Building administrator
G. District administrator
Other
Other, please specify:
PART I: CONTACT INFORMATION
The first thing we need is to know how to contact you at your school. This allows us to get in
touch with you to confirm receipt of your proposal, to send an inquiry should there be a question
about your application, to pass along any important announcements, or to send you additional
information or material if the need should arise. Please tell us:
1. The school's name: *Tattnall County High School
2. The name of the school district or governing organization: *Tattnall County Board of Education
3. What is your schools Federal Employer Tax Identification Number? *586000324
(Tax ID is 9-digits numerical number only. The number can be obtained from the schools and/or districts Finance Office)

4. The school's mailing address:

Line 1 *#1 Battle Creek Warrior Blvd
Line 2

City *Reidsville
State *GA
Zip Code 30453
5. The school's telephone and fax numbers (please use 10 digits, no spaces or hyphens):
Phone: *9125574374
Fax number 9125574542
6. The school's email address. This will be used for notification if you are funded. Be sure to double-check
that it is correctly entered: * jblocker@tattnall.k12.ga.us
7. The principal's name:
Last Name *Stewart
First Name *Glenn
Email address *gstewart@tattnall.k12.ga.us
8. The name of the person filling out this application:
Last Name: *Blocker
First Name: *Julie
9. The title of person filling out this application: *Media Specialist
10. The telephone number of the person filling out this application (please use 10 digits, no spaces or
hyphens): *9125574374
11. The email address of the person filling out this application. We will send an email to this address to
confirm receipt of the application: * jblocker@tattnall.k12.ga.us
12. Is the person filling out this application also the person responsible for the day-to-day on-site library
operation in the school? *
X Yes
No
Please note: Preference will be given to applications that are prepared by the person in your school
specifically responsible for the library. We believe that the person on-site has the best understanding of the
library's status, needs, and potential.
PART II: SCHOOL AND LIBRARY STRUCTURE AND OPERATION
Here we are looking for information that will help put your proposal in context. The answers to these
questions will give us a profile of your school and sharpen our sense of how and where your proposal will fit
into the larger picture.
13. Which of the following best describes the school? If none of these descriptors fit, please write a short
description (25 words or less) under Other. *

Preschool and/or Kindergarten

Primary School
Primary/Elementary School
Elementary School
Middle School / Jr. High School
X

High School

Pre K or Kindergarten through Grade 8 School

Grades 7 through 12 School
Pre K or Kindergarten through Grade 12 School
Other (please specify)

14. Which of the following best describes the school? If none of these descriptors fit, please write a short
description (25 words or less) under Other. *
X

Public

Public alternative
Public charter
Private
Other (please specify)

15. What percentage of your student body is eligible for free and reduced lunch (FRL)? Secondary
schools may submit verifiable FRL data averaged from all feeder schools.
85-89%
16. Please provide NCES Information:
A. What is your schools NCES ID? *130477000780
Please see:http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/ if you need to find it.

B. If this is a secondary school using data from feeder schools, please list all schools that feed
into your high school, providing name and NCES IDs:
Glennville Middle School

130477002434

Collins Middle School

130477002436

Reidsville Middle School

130477002433

17. How many students are there in the school this year? *937
Please use numbers only, no commas

18. How many books are there in the library collection? *9773
Please use numbers only, no commas

19. How many books per student does that work out to? *10
Please use numbers only, no commas

20. What is the distance to the nearest public library? Please choose one from the pull-down menu of
distances: *5-10 miles
21. Does your school have a certified school librarian on site who runs the library day-to-day? *
xYes
No
If your school does have a certified librarian on site, please skip ahead to Question Number 22.
If your school does not have a certified librarian, please describe the person who currently has
day-to-day responsibility for the library and its operation.
(A) Position Description:
Volunteer
Certified teacher
Administrator
Certified specialist in some area other than library media
Aide or para-professional
(B) Is this person full-time or part-time in the library?
Full-time in the library
Part-time in the library
(C) What is this person's education and experience?
No degree
Bachelors degree
Masters degree or higher
(D) Library Media Training
Has no library media training
Has some library media training
Is a qualified library technician
Is currently in a library media certification program
Has temporary library media certification
Is taking on-line training
(E) Experience in the library job:
First year responsible for the library

1-3 years experience responsible for the library

4 or more years experience responsible for the library
(F) Other Duties: Does the person primarily responsible for the library have a second
responsibility in the school (e.g., classroom teacher, counselor, administrator, secretary, and
clerk)?
Yes
No
If yes, please tell us what that responsibility is in 25 words or less:

22. Does the person responsible for the on site day-to-day operation of the library have support staff such as
aides, clerks, para-professionals, parent/community volunteers, or other help? *
xYes
No
If yes, please describe that help in 25 words or less:
We have technology parapro that takes care of technology issues in the school
23. Please provide the following information concerning the budget for library books for this year.
Please use numbers only. Please no commas. (Refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for items
that are considered part of the budget for library books).
(A) Total library book budget provided by the governing body for the 2013-2014 school year (this would
include any monies allocated directly from the district as well as moneys allocated through the principals
budget for the building). *$ There is no set amount
In answering this question, please remember that a book is a print or Braille bound volume or an audio-book on an audio-tape, CD-ROM,
or other digital format. For this definition, books are part of either the reference section or the circulating section of the schools central
library collection.

(B) Total library magazine/serial budget provided by the governing body for the 2013-2014 school year (this
would include any monies allocated directly from the district as well as moneys allocated through the
principals budget for the building). *$ 200
(C) Total money from other sources used for books or magazines, such as grants, monies from parent
organizations, an educational foundation, book fairs, other fund-raising activities, etc. *$ 0
(D) What does all of this work out to on a per-pupil basis for the year? *$/pupil:
24. Will the person filling out this application be the person responsible for carrying out the activities
described in the grant proposal plan below? *
xYes
No
If no, who will be responsible? Please list the name, title, and experience of each person who will have

responsibility for implementing the proposal:

Last name
First name
Title:
Experience

This answer is limited to 100 words.

PART III: THE HEART OF THE PROPOSAL

This is the most important part of the application. We would like to have the most compelling explanation of
your students needs and the clearest description of your proposal that you can provide.
Please answer every part of every question. We cannot appropriately evaluate incomplete applications.
Important: Please read the Frequently Asked Questions and the Scoring Rubric sections before
answering the questions below.
Please also remember that funds are available only for library books and magazine/serial copies and
subscriptions. The Laura Bush Foundation is unable to honor requests for staffing, shelving, furniture,
equipment, e-readers, software, videos, classroom book sets or any kind of book guides, tests or exams.
With all that in mind, please tell us:
25. Every school and school library is unique. What distinguishes your school and library? Please
tell us your schools and your students story. Particularly address any condition in the school or
community or anything else that demonstrates a unique and compelling need for books. What
role does your school library play in addressing your students uniqueness and needs?
While we are not considered to be a Title I school, each of the 6 elementary/middle schools in our county are
Title I. We are primarily an agricultural county with a 25% poverty rate and 10% unemployment rate.
Because we are primarily agricultural, we have a migrant population of Hispanic speaking people. Our
community libraries have been cut back due to funding issues. We consolidated the two high schools in the
county twenty years ago. With this we brought books from both schools. Our current collection has
nonfiction and fiction books dating back to the 60s and our reference materials are 10 to 50 years old. We
also have an onsite Pre K program. These children come in every Friday to check out books. Our media
center has an open schedule. We are open before and after school, during the 15 minute break, and both
lunches. Students are also allowed during class time with permission from teachers. Students come in daily
asking for particular books that we do not have and due to limited availability of funds are not able to
purchase. Our media center strives to meet the literacy needs of our students through providing both print
and nonprint materials that will foster a love of learning.
This answer is limited to 500 words.

26. What is your library collection improvement goal? In other words, what is your proposal?
What need are you addressing? What specific student groups or school programs would benefit

from these added resources in your library?

(In describing your proposal, please be sure of two things: (1) That you do not request anything other than
books or magazines, and (2) that if your plan includes purchasing eBooks or any other electronic materials,
be sure to tell us in what ways and how easily your students will be able to access them.) This answer is
limited to 500 words.
Our school improvement plan consists of updating both our fiction and nonfiction print collection. Our goal is
to update, extend, and diversify our print collection to meet the academic and leisure needs of our students.
Because our collection is very dated, we propose to update books with current issues/topics in nonfiction and
age appropriate/higher level thinking fiction and create a Pre K collection for our onsite program. By doing
so, we will meet the CCGPS and CCRPI needs to extend instruction outside the classroom. Due to our large
Hispanic population, we will also address the need for Spanish editions of books. It will take $3000 to update
the nonfiction, $1500 for the fiction, and $500 for the Pre K collection. We have received quotes from
various vendors on popular titles, CCGPS approved titles, etc.
27. The goals of the Laura Bush Foundation is to help school libraries to:(a) encourage and foster
a love of reading,(b) support student learning, and(c) make books available to students who
otherwise would not have access to them. Which goal or combination of goals does your library
grant application address? How?
Our grant application addresses each of the stated goals for the foundation. Through updating our nonfiction
and fiction collection, we will be supporting student learning by extending lessons outside the traditional
classroom setting. By doing so, we will be making books available to students who otherwise would not have
access to them which will in turn foster a love of reading.
This summary is limited to 250 words.

28. How did you identify the specific need that your grant application addresses? *
We identified specific needs through student and teacher surveys, as well as, an inventory of the current
print collection. The inventory was then evaluated in terms of meeting CCGPS and CCRI requirements.
This answer is limited to 200 words.

29. How were the specifics of your grant application proposal developed? *
Through evaluating academic and CTAE curriculum needs, SACS and CTAE review suggestions, and
collaborating with teachers through weekly departmental meetings, it was determined that we fall short with
our print collection. Taking these into consideration and the fact that our budget does not allocate funds
specifically for books, we developed the proposal to the update and extend the collection.
This answer is limited to 200 words.

30. If you do receive a grant to implement your proposal, how will you measure and evaluate its impact on
the students, on the library, on the school? *
We will measure and evaluate the impact on the students, library, and school through circulation data,
surveys, and accountability measurements.
This answer is limited to 250 words.

31. How much money (up to $5,000) are you requesting from the Laura Bush Foundation to fund your library

improvement? Please use whole numbers only; no commas, decimals, or fractions: *$ 5000
32. If your school is selected as a recipient of a Laura Bush Foundation grant, do you agree to
participate in the Foundations evaluation program?
xYes
No
33. If your school is selected as a recipient of a Laura Bush Foundation grant, do you agree to
participate in publicity to promote the goals of the Foundation and for information from this
application to be used?
xYes
No
Required fields.

34. Since the principal bears ultimate responsibility for a given schools
programs and operations, we need to know that the principal approves
this application and certifies the accuracy of the information submitted.
Please ask the principal to electronically signal this approval by inserting
his or her name and the date approval is granted below. Thank you.
I, ,
hereby certify the accuracy of the information provided in this application and fully support its submission.
I support this application to the Laura Bush Foundation and the project described herein. Further, I certify
that funds granted by the Laura Bush Foundation will not be used to supplant money normally budgeted for
the library program. I understand that these funds are to be used for supplemental funding only and may
only be spent for books or magazines.
I also agree to have the information we have submitted be included as part of aggregated, anonymous data
used for research purposes.
If our school is funded, I agree to participate in publicity to promote the goals of the Foundation and to
submit an evaluation of the use of the funds a year after funds are received.
Date:

PART VI: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please remember that only this on-line application is official. We cannot accept any faxed, e-mailed, or
printed applications. Once you submit this application, it cannot be changed or retrieved. If additional
applications are received from your school, only the first will be considered.
Please look over your application one more time before submitting. Please double-check that you are not
requesting funds for anything except books -- that is, for hardbound print or Braille volumes, for audio-books
on audio-tape or CD-ROM, for e-books to be added to either the circulating or reference section of the
school's central library collection -- or for magazine/serial copies or subscriptions.
Please also double-check that you have answered every part of every question. We are trying to build a
profile of your school and its book needs. Unanswered items leave questions and reduce your chances of
receiving funds.
We also recommend that you save your content information into your own Word file before submission.
Thank you for your interest in the Laura Bush Foundation. Best wishes for continued success in the important
work you do.
Note: You must click "Submit the Proposal to LBF" button below to complete this submission
process. Saved draft will not be considered.