Summary of
Administrative Expenditures

Advisory Groups / Panels
Arizona will create a general Advisory Council which, in addition to providing the Director with guidance and support in a variety of Department matters, will also advise on the development of, and policy matters relating to, the administration of the LSTA Five-Year Plan and for evaluating activities assisted under the LSTA. Expenses will include costs of travel, supplies, postage, and telecommunications used by and for the Advisory Council in fulfilling its responsibility. In addition to the Advisory Council, the State Library will participate and help support various costs associated with meetings of other statewide library groups, such as those of the County Librarians and of the Economic Development Library Committee. As appropriate, other advisory groups may be included as the State Library develops partnerships with the larger cultural resource network in Arizona.

Dissemination of Information
Funds will be used to purchase supplies to continue printing and distributing the State Library newsletter, Arizona Libraries Newsweek, a bi-weekly document that has become an invaluable information dissemination instrument between State Library and libraries throughout Arizona. Funds will also be used to publish the annual editions of both the Arizona Library Directory and the Arizona Public Library Statistics in quantity for distribution throughout the state, and to help fund the telecommunications costs of the Arizona Library JobLine, the job-listing service that is operated by the State Library. We will be creating the first-ever museum directory and working towards the publication of a cultural institution directory.

Travel
Funds will be used for the variety of expenses incurred by four members of the agency staff in the performance of their duties, both in-state and out-of-state. These staff include Department Director GladysAnn Wells, Deputy Director Mary Johnson, LSCA / LSTA Coordinator Robin Cabot, and Library Extension Division Director Bob Machinski. These staff attend COSLA (Chief Officers of State Library Agencies), ALA (American Library Association), CNI (Center for Networked Information), NAGARA (National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators), and ARMA (Association of Records Managers and Administrators) meetings each year in addition to various other workshops, seminars, meetings and conferences; Machinski and Cabot also conduct site monitoring for federally-funded projects throughout the state.

Salaries
Federal funds are used to augment state funds in paying salary expenses for staff who directly administer the LSCA / LSTA program; these people include the LSCA / LSTA Coordinator, the Administrative Services Officer (Fiscal Officer), and a museum circuit-rider. This museum-library cross-trained staff member will work under the direction of, and be part of the Library Extension Division (LED) team responsible for the LSTA program. The LSTA monies will be used to pay for only the LSTA half of this person's time for fieldwork with museum and other libraries. This persons activities are targeted to Sec 231, 1 (D) - "Encouraging libraries in different areas and encouraging different types of libraries, (especially museum and non-traditional libraries in cultural centers,) to establish consortia and share resources" Activities of this position, along with the existing LED staff will also contribute to 1 (A), 1 (B), and 1 (C), plus our activities listed on page 14 (Activities - New).

Risk Management (auto)
This refers to the automobile liability portion of the State Library's insurance premiums. Since the automobiles are under the supervision of the Library Extension Division and purchased with federal funds, it is appropriate that the State Library pays that portion of its insurance premiums out of federal funds.

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Updated: 11/24/2006

Summary of Administrative Expenditures

Summary of
Administrative Expenditures