Global Awareness
As technology and globalization make the world a smaller place, increased global and cultural awareness fostered by libraries and museums is increasingly important
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National Initiative: International Strategic Partnership Initiative
The International Strategic Partnership Initiative is a project that will strengthen cross-cultural connections between U.S. museums and libraries and their global counterparts.
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Partnership: Film Forward
Film Forward is a cultural exchange program designed to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration, and dialogue around the globe by engaging audiences through the exhibition of film and conversation with filmmakers.
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Partnership: Salzburg Global Seminar
On October 19-23, 2011, IMLS will host a seminar of the topic, Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture, in partnership with the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria. The seminar will convene international leaders in libraries and museums to explore and debate the changing roles and responsibilities of libraries and museums in society.
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Search the Awarded Grants database for grants to programs that strengthen global awareness (issue areas have only been assigned to grants awarded since FY 2009)
Global awareness content on the IMLS Web site:
In this age of instantly accessible information, librarians from all nations find they need to be able to navigate varied resources around the globe. Opportunities to learn how to work with foreign libraries, however, are scarce.
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When the Queens Museum of Art wanted to create an arts education program for immigrant adults, its location in the nation’s most diverse county played a big role in the process. To find a model program, it looked to the Queens Library, which had been providing cultural programming to new immigrants for 30 years.
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Five museums and five libraries have won the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor for institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities.
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In Illinois’ Lincoln Trail Libraries System and beyond, a pioneering new program is putting patrons in touch with people who know their language best and can connect them to the information they need.
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