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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute – Birmingham, AL
Year: 2000
Amount: $216,580  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
A two-year collaborative venture between six museums, the Birmingham Public Library and the Birmingham City Schools, to develop, implement, and disseminate an integrated learning program that introduces middle school students and teachers to innovative, participatory educational activities aimed at cultivating lifelong patrons of the arts and cultural heritage.

Arizona Science Center – Phoenix, AZ
Year: 2000
Amount: $384,200  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project in partnership with the Phoenix Public Library system will develop the Satellite Science program, which targets high school and middle school students and their families in a variety of science activities based in eight libraries and the Science Center.

Museum of Science and Industry – Tampa, FL
Year: 2000
Amount: $202,418  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
A two year project with the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System, and Hillsborough County Head Start to implement a model county-wide program to promote early child development based on a successful planning process conducted through a 1998 Museum Leadership Initiatives Grant.

Chicago Horticultural Society/Chicago Botanic Garden – Glencoe, IL
Year: 2000
Amount: $255,809  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project in partnership with the Library of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Center for Plant Conservation will complete development of the National Collection of Endangered Plants Web Site, which will provide pertinent information about each of the 570 globally rare plants on which CPC member organizations are conducting research and restoration work.
Project Website: http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/NC_Choice.html

University of Illinois – Champaign, IL
Year: 2000
Amount: $249,583  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project in partnership with multiple libraries, museums and school districts will develop a model program to integrate digital primary source materials into K-12 curriculum and educational programs of museums and libraries.
Project Website: http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/TDC/Index.HTM

Memorial Hall Museum – Deerfield, MA
Year: 2000
Amount: $249,100  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This New England history museum, in partnership with the rural Frontier Regional School District, will address the issue of state educational standards in a two-year project, Beyond the Turns of the Centuries.

Johns Hopkins University Milton S. Eisenhower Library – Baltimore, MD
Year: 2000
Amount: $247,310  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This one-year project will be the cornerstone initiative in a broad spectrum of multi-faceted activities proposed by the Baltimore Art Resource Online Consortium (BAROC), a consortium formed of The Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Gallery and others; IMLS funding will create an electronic gateway to Baltimore’s vibrant art community.

University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
Year: 2000
Amount: $226,122  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The University of Michigan Library and Museum of Natural History will partner in a two-year project to increase access to the Great Lakes region Flora and Fauna collections, and to develop extensible infrastructure for putting the Natural History collections online.
Project Website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/programs/greatlakes/

Libby School District #4 – Libby, MT
Year: 2000
Amount: $175,042  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The goal of this two-year project in partnership with The Heritage Museum and The Lincoln County Public Library is to develop a “living museum” designed to showcase local history and culture, including early homesteading, mining and logging, and to demonstrate how to build hands-on working exhibits.
Project Website: http://www.lincolncountylibraries.com/museum

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science – Durham, NC
Year: 2000
Amount: $243,386  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
A partnership with the Durham County Library and the Durham Public Schools involving 4,000 elementary school students and inner-city teens in a two-year project to create dynamic and meaningful work opportunities for teens while increasing children’s exposure to science and literature.

Palau Community College – Koror, Republic of Palau, PW
Year: 2000
Amount: $137,546  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project of the Palau Community College and the Belau National Museum emphasizes the unique Micronesian environment which will serve as a model for other geographically remote and economically disadvantaged communities as they collaborate to develop information products and services that are responsive to the needs of local and external learning communities.

University of South Carolina Thomas Cooper Library – Columbia, SC
Year: 2000
Amount: $213,337  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
In partnership with the McKissick Museum, this two year project will utilize complementary technology and face-to-face learning to help small local libraries, museums, and related organizations learn proper preservation and collection care techniques.

Lee College – Baytown, TX
Year: 2000
Amount: $258,290  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project partners Lee College, Sterling Municipal Library and the Baytown Historical Museum in a digitization project to illuminate the history of the oil industry in Texas as well as to develop a unique college level curriculum to train imaging technicians.
Project Website: http://imls.lee.edu

Gerald R. Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University – Cedar City, UT
Year: 2000
Amount: $146,012  
Grant: National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
A two-year project entitled “Voices of the Colorado Plateau,” in which Southern Utah University will work with seven partner institutions to develop multimedia Web-based museum exhibits using oral histories and images from the combined collections; the project will model a collaborative process whereby geographically isolated regional libraries and museums work together to “tell a greater story.”
Project Website: http://archive.li.suu.edu/voices/voicesx3.html

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