Grant Writing for Libraries: A Basic Overview

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

This webinar reviews basic elements of grant writing, including highlights of important considerations when completing the grant application package, such as: where to find opportunities, writing best practices, common application components, funder’s point of view, what to do if your application is funded/not funded, common missteps, and resources to help you.

All ILA Noon Network webinars are free. Registration for all live webinars is limited to Illinois libraries. Recordings of webinars will be available to ILA personal and institutional members in the Noon Network Archive 1-3 days after the live event.

About the Speaker

Since July of 2016, Anne Craig has had the privilege of serving as the Senior Director at CARLI, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, a unit of the University of Illinois System. CARLI includes 125 academic and research libraries as its members, ranging in size and scope from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to small, one-person libraries, and research libraries like the Newberry.

Since 2018, Anne has been an instructor for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s iSchool Master’s Library and Information Science Program, teaching “Grant Writing for Libraries” and “State Libraries & Library Consortia.” In September 2021, CARLI was awarded the five-year Open Textbooks Pilot Grant from the US Department of Education for $2 million for the project, “Illinois SCOERs: Support for the Creation of Open Educational Resources.”

Anne has started several consortium-wide projects, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, “CARLI Counts: Analytics and Advocacy for Service Development,” strategic planning, and a philanthropy program. Prior to July 2016, Anne was the Director of the Illinois State Library for 11 years under Secretary of State Jesse White. She held various roles at the ISL since starting there as a Reference Librarian in 1989.

Grant Writing for Libraries: A Basic Overview