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Vol. 11, No. 3; March 2009
KC Science, INC - Inspiring Natural Curiosity In Science
Student participating in a hands-on science activity during a KC Science, INC program. Several years ago, Kansas City leaders decided to boost future economic growth by developing science and engineering skills in the area’s work force. There was a problem though: Kansas City’s workers and students weren’t very interested in science and engineering. So, five organizations, including a library and museum, founded KC Science, INC to improve science literacy in the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan region. Read more.

Director's Message

Image of Dr. Anne-Imelda RadiceIt is almost springtime when IMLS program staff’s thoughts turn to…grant panel reviews! IMLS is actively seeking museum and library professionals to review grants as part of IMLS’s peer review process. If you have ever thought about becoming a grant reviewer, now is the time to get in touch with us. We depend on our library and museum community to serve on peer review panels in our Washington D.C. office and to participate as field reviewers from your home institutions. While you are performing this important service, you will learn about IMLS’s grant making process. You will also forge connections with other experts from across the country and with our exceptional and dedicated program staff. The participation of our peer reviewers is the engine that drives the competitive grant process. For more information on becoming a reviewer, please click here: http://www.imls.gov/reviewers/become.shtm.

Anne-Imelda M. Radice, IMLS Director


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The Latest News
IMLS Announces New Data Note on Libraries’ Role in Providing Broadband Access
IMLS today launched a new series of data notes to inform library and museum policies and practices. The first data note in the series, Libraries Use Broadband to Serve High Need Communities, focuses on the role that public libraries play in providing access points to broadband services for people in urban and rural areas, and families in need.
Read More: http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/031909b.shtm.
Webcast on Sustaining Living Collections Now Available from IMLS
Webcast presentations on the challenges of caring for and sustaining living collections in zoos, aquaria, gardens, nature centers, and living history farms are now available. The presentations were made February 19 and 20 at "It’s Alive! Petals to Primates: Preservation Challenges of Living Collections," a two-day Connecting to Collections forum in San Diego. To view the webcast, please click here: http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/heritage_preservation/090219
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IMLS Seeks Applications for Save America’s Treasures Program
Deadline: Deadline: May 22, 2009
IMLS is seeking applicants for the Save America’s Treasures (SAT) 2009 grant program. These grants support the preservation and conservation of nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts such as collections, documents, sculpture, and art, and historic structures and sites. For more information, please go to http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures/.
Read More: http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/031909a.shtm
Funding Opportunities: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
  • The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces the availability of grant guidelines for The Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The program includes $50 million to assist the nonprofit arts sector fund projects that focus on the preservation of jobs in the arts. Applicants must have received NEA funding in the last four years to be eligible to apply. For nonprofit arts organizations, applications are due April 2, 2009. For more information, please go to: http://www.arts.gov/recovery/
  • The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will award $4.7 billion in grants to establish a Broadband Technology Opportunities Program to develop and expand broadband services to rural and underserved areas and improve access to broadband by public safety agencies. Live video webcasts about the program will take place March 23 and 24. For information on accessing the webcast, please go to: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/video.html. For more information about the program, please go to: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/.
  • The Department of Education announced March 7 that it will award $44 billion in stimulus funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to states in the next 30 to 45 days. The first round of funding will help avert hundreds of thousands of estimated teacher layoffs in schools and school districts while driving crucial education improvements, reforms, and results for students. For more information, please go to: http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/index.html.
For information on all agencies distributing funds from the ARRA, please go to: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/agencies
IMLS FY 2009 Budget
On March 11, President Obama signed the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, which provides fiscal year 2009 appropriations for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. To view a detailed table of the IMLS FY08 and FY09 appropriations, please click here: http://www.imls.gov/pdf/09_Appropriations.pdf.
Apply for Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services
Deadline: April 1, 2009
The Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program promotes enhanced learning and innovation within museums and museum-related organizations, such as cultural centers. The program provides opportunities for Native American tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge through strengthened museum services. (Deadline extended to April 15, 2009 for any institution within an area that has received either a “Major Disaster Declaration” or an “Emergency Declaration” by FEMA within 12 months prior to the grant deadline. For applicants to the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program, this would mean that the museum must be in an area that received the “Major Disaster Declaration” or the “Emergency Declaration” after April 1, 2008.) For more information, go to: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/nativeServices.shtm.
Apply for Native American Library Services: Enhancement Grants
Deadline: May 1, 2009
Enhancement Grants support projects to enhance existing, or implement new, library services, particularly as they relate to the goals of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages are eligible to apply for the Enhancement Grants only if they have applied for a Native American Library Services Basic Grant in the same fiscal year. For more information, please go to: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/nativeEnhance.shtm.

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IMLS on the Road

“Global Impact Study of Public Access to Information and Communication Technologies” survey planning meeting, Carlos Manjarrez, Associate Deputy Director of Research and Statistics, University of Washington Information School, Seattle, WA, March 12-14.

“Job Expertise and Exchanges,” Rachel Frick, Senior Program Officer, NITLE Summit, Philadelphia, PA, March 29-30.

“Funders’ Perspectives on Digital Curation,” Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Digital Curation Curriculum Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, April 1-3.

“Strategic Visioning,” Dr. Schroeder Cherry, Counselor to the Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY, April 9-10.

“International Conference on Information and Communications and Development ”, Carlos Manjarrez, Associate Deputy Director of Research and Statistics, Doha, Qatar, April 14-19.

“Trajectories of the African Diaspora,” Dr. Schroeder Cherry, Counselor to the Director, James Porter Colloquium, Howard University, Washington, DC, April 16-18.

“Global Opportunities for Ingenuity, Creativity and Innovation,” Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Joint Information Systems Committee invitational symposium, Oxford, England, April 28-29.

“Declare Your Impact!” Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director, Association of Children’s Museums Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA April 28-30.

“Federal Funding Brown Bag Lunch,” Marsha Semmel, Deputy Director for Museums and Director for Strategic Partnerships, Association of Children’s Museums annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 28-30.

“Where Ideas Live!” Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director, American Association of Museums annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 30-May 4.

“How Do We Prove the Value of Museums?” Marsha Semmel, Deputy Director for Museums and Director for Strategic Partnerships and Mamie Bittner, Deputy Director of Policy, Planning, Research, and Communications, American Association of Museums annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 30-May 4.

“Women in Leadership: Changes in Museums and Arts Management,” Marsha Semmel, Deputy Director for Museums and Director for Strategic Partnerships, American Association of Museums annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 30-May 4.

“IMLS Connections Lab,” Mary Estelle Kennelly, Associate Deputy Director for Museums and Director for Strategic Partnerships, American Association of Museums annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 30-May 4.

“Mid-Career Professional Training - What Works and What Doesn't,” Christopher Reich, Senior Program Officer, American Association of Museums annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 30-May 4.


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