· All students will be allowed to check out and take home more than one book per week starting in their first semester of school.
· Students in all grades will be allowed to check out nonfiction books.
· All grant funds will be spent on age-appropriate books for the grades served by your school. Funds can be spent on fiction or nonfiction books, but at least 40% of the funds must be spent on nonfiction books. Age-appropriate titles for these grade levels need to take into account the interest level for students and include primarily good quality, read-aloud titles for family members to read to students or for students to read independently. Reading level should be a secondary consideration, if considered at all.
· Accelerated Reader tests, library software, library shelving signage, and ebooks are not allowable purchases with these funds.
· Up to 5% of grant funds may be spent on book processing supplies.
· No more than 50% of grant funds may be spent with any one publisher.
· Final reports will ask for a list of fiction and nonfiction titles purchased with grant funds, circulation statistics by grade level (when possible), and feedback on changes in circulation practices.