This is a guest post from Carolyn Bauer, Media Paraprofessional, at Albertville Primary Library. Read more about our Extended Mini Grant Program or fill out one of our applications. This program is only available during the FY21 school year.

Receiving this grant from CMLE was a huge surprise! The process was so painless that I thought for sure that I was doing something wrong! I was like a small child on Christmas morning when I got the exciting email telling me that our school received the grant! 

I hopped onto Amazon and proceeded to pick out a bunch of fairy tales for our library as we were lacking in the classics and I also picked out a complete library of “The Little Spot” books for our Teacher Resource section to help them with some of the students during these trying times. Both the Spot collection and the fairy tales have been circulated a few times already!

This was such an easy process and I would encourage any library to apply for this grant! Thank you very much to CMLE!