FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2009
IMLS Press Contacts
202-653-4632
Jeannine Mjoseth, jmjoseth@imls.gov
Mamie Bittner, mbittner@imls.gov
IMLS Awards National
Leadership Grants to 51 Institutions
$17.9 Million Distributed
Washington, DC—The Institute of Museum
and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal funds for the
nation’s museums and libraries, announces the 51 institutions receiving
National Leadership Grants (NLG) totaling $17,894,475. Projects by these
institutions will advance the ability of museums and libraries to preserve culture,
heritage, and knowledge while enhancing learning.
“Projects funded by IMLS’s National
Leadership Grants focus on education, health, computer
literacy, and problem solving skills. We believe that
museums and libraries play an important role in building
a competitive workforce and engaged citizenry. We are
equally confident that these institutions will elevate
museum and library practice through this work,”
said Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director.
NLG recipients will generate new tools, research, models, services,
practices, and alliances that will positively impact the awarded institution and
the nation. These projects include:
- The Boston TV News Digital Library: 1960-2000, developed by The WGBH Media
Library and Archives, will be the first online resource offering a city’s
commercial, noncommercial, and community cable TV news heritage to educators and
the public. The project, created in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, Cambridge
Community Television, and the Boston Public Library, will establish a new collaborative
model for local collecting institutions, create modules for clarifying legal issues
relating to TV news collections, and provide curricular context for the study of
urban history in classrooms and community institutions.
- The Pathways to Excellence and Achievement in Research and Learning
(PEARL) project, created by the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus, will
produce a training guide that can be used to create professional development
programs to address “expectation gaps” between high school and post-high
school pursuits. These programs will focus primarily on the mastery of 21st
century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, interpreting
information, and analytic reasoning.
- Inviting Institutions, a program developed by the Queens Museum
of Art and the Queens Library and Quality Services for the Autistic
Community, will develop and implement a model community-based art
therapy program for Spanish- speaking families of children with autism
spectrum disorders.
- The Supporting Early Literacy Learning project will partner the Minnesota
Children’s Museum, the Dakota County Library System, Hennepin County Library
System, Saint Paul Public Library System, and other institutions to develop
and test an innovative early literacy program that will explore new directions
in the ways that libraries and museums bring their unique expertise together
for successful collaborations.
- The Floral Report Card, a program created in collaboration with the
State Botanical Garden of Georgia, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Northwestern
University, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and the
University of Washington, will use gardens, citizen science, and technology
to teach and engage students with one of the most urgent contemporary issues:
climate change.
- The CALTA (Culture and Literacy through Art) project, developed by
the Nassau County Museum of Art with the Queensborough Community College,
will build on a long-standing partnership to plan an innovative,
multi-generational, visual literacy program using visual art as a
catalyst for literacy and critical thinking in adult English Language
Learners.
- The National Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program,
created by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in partnership with the
Association of Children’s Museums, will adapt the NIH’s “We
Can!” curriculum to provide community-wide leadership in the fight
against childhood obesity for children under 8 and their parents.
Click here to learn more
about the 2009 NLG awardees.
The next deadline for the National Leadership Grants program is
February 1, 2010. Click here
for more information.
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