National leadership grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements

From the amounts reserved under section 9131(a)(1)(B) of this title for any fiscal year the Director shall establish and carry out a program to enhance the quality of library services nationwide and to provide coordination between libraries and museums, including by carrying out activities such as— enhancing the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster through— the development of national, regional, statewide, or local emergency and disaster management plans that— The Director may carry out the activities described in subsection (a) by entering into arrangements, including grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other forms of assistance, with libraries, library consortia and associations, institutions of higher education, museums, and other entities that the Director determines appropriate. Grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other arrangements or forms of assistance under this section shall be awarded on a competitive basis. The Director shall make every effort to ensure that activities assisted under this section—