Each grant application will be reviewed by a team of evaluators. Review teams consist of staff from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries and may include other Commonwealth agency employees as well as individuals from the Pennsylvania library field.
Grant award decision-making priorities are as follows:
Within each program category, applicants with the highest score are eligible to receive the grant award.
- In the event of tied scores for a grant program category, the qualified applicant with the lowest indirect cost may be awarded the contract.
- If an applicant is awarded more than one grant, it may choose to decline acceptance of all or just one or two of the grant awards.
- If any grant is declined, it will be awarded to the next highest qualified applicant in that program category.
Using the recommendations, OCL’s Bureau of Library Development will make funding recommendations for awards to the Deputy Secretary and Commissioner for Libraries. The Pennsylvania Secretary of Education makes the final decision of awards.
