This is the third post in a four-part series highlighting recent awards made by the Office of Library Services in the National Digital Platform priority area , through the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. To learn more about each project, click on their IMLS log number for links to components of their grant application.Read more
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May 02, 2016 ET
"...turn off that TV, just have fun with your kids." Queens’s resident Myrna Tinoco (L) tells Delia Meza (R), a youth educator at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), about why she became an NYSCI member, and how invaluable it's been for her kids, particularly for her son with autism.Read more
May 02, 2016 ET
"My dad took me to my first coding class when I was 10. I realized I was the only girl there, and I walked out..." Sixteen year-old Mallika Yeleswarapu, an intern at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA, talks to museum educator Lauren Cage about the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) for girls and women and the need for more female role models in science. Mallika asks the first question.Read more
April 29, 2016 ET
This year, we were excited to see a critical mass of proposals for projects to increase digital skills of librarians and archivists under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program (LB21). These proposals serve to round out our investments in National Digital Platform tools and infrastructure by ensuring that the library workforce will be prepared to adopt, use, and build upon these systems. They reach audiences nationwide, including current LIS students, recent graduates, and experienced professionals.Read more
April 29, 2016 ET
As the deadline nears for some IMLS grants (including the new STEMEx NOFO ), we encourage applicants and potential applicants to revisit this blog by IMLS’ Dr. Connie Bodner.Read more
April 27, 2016 ET
The windows of Maymont Mansion look out onto a breathtaking landscape and into a world of Gilded Age treasures, but how often does anyone consider the windows themselves? Their importance was recognized in FY15 with a $145,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and matching funds from the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation . This financial support allowed us to begin a comprehensive window conservation and museum environment improvement project that was planned through a prior IMLS grant, 2009-2010.Read more
April 26, 2016 ET
Federal agencies have released a second call for bold proposals to improve education, employment, and other key outcomes for disconnected youth. Over five million 14-to-24-year-olds in the U.S. are out of school and not working. In many cases, they face additional challenges including being financially unstable, homeless, in foster care, or involved in the justice system. In response, seven federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, are jointly inviting state, local, and tribal communities to apply to become a Performance Partnership Pilot (P3) to test innovative, outcome-focused strategies to achieving better outcomes for these youth, as well as youth at risk of becoming disconnected from critical social institutions and supports.Read more
April 26, 2016 ET
IMLS’ recent awards in the National Digital Platform area included nearly $1.4 million in funding for projects that are intended to improve libraries as well as archives’ ability to collect, manage, preserve and provide access to born digital Information. We have highlighted a few of those projects and the work underway below, in hopes of better informing the field of the latest developments in this important area.Read more
April 20, 2016 ET
Editor’s Note: Each of the poets represents one of five regions and is tasked to serve as a literary ambassador with the mission to engage diverse audiences of all ages in the art of poetry by sharing their work, participating in events and leading workshops. The two pillars of their ambassador...Read more
April 15, 2016 ET
At a recent exhibit, Dressing Room: Archiving Fashion , at the Museum of the City of New York through April 28, a mannequin outfitted in Vera Maxwell’s “Rosie the Riveter,” blue drab jumpsuit uniform one day, might next don a swan headdress worn by Isabel Eberstadt to Truman Capote’s storied “Black and White Ball,” held at the Palace Hotel in 1966. The following week, the mannequin might find herself in a fuscia and deep yellow Yves Saint Laurent silk crepe evening gown, with a gaggle of museum staff and visitors alike quietly gushing over the garment.Read more