At Rockwood Library, Nourishing a Summer Reading List
July 3, 2013Ed note: This is a cross post of the blog Oregon Live. You can find the original post here. By The Oregonian Editorial Board Over the nearly 10 years she's worked at the Rockwood branch of the Multnomah County Library, Kylie Park has noticed something about its summer customers.
Landmark Treaty For The Visually Impaired
July 2, 2013Ed Note: This is a cross post from the blog of whitehouse.gov. You can find the original post here. By R.
AAHC Forum: Wake Up and Smell the Possibilities
June 27, 2013By Quantia Fletcher Assistant Director, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center In the museum world, whether you’re the tiniest of the tiny, or the size of a Walmart, at one point or another, you’ve likely made a wish for more staff to fall from the heavens to make life a little easier. At the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center (MTCC) in Little Rock, Ark., where I serve, there never seems to be a shortage… Read more
We Could All Use a Level Up
June 26, 2013Ed Note: This is a cross post from the blog of whitehouse.gov.
Museums, Libraries Play an Important Role in Early Learning
June 25, 2013By Susan Hildreth Director, IMLS Did you know that we have more than 140,000 museums and libraries in this country? Oftentimes museums and libraries are overlooked when it comes to our nation’s efforts to turn around early learning. The early years are critical developmental years for school success. Yet too many children, especially those from low-income families, lack opportunities to build… Read more
Summertime in the Garden
June 24, 2013By Courtney Reid Youth Programs Instructor, Gardens on Spring Creek Fort Collins, Colo. The Gardens on Spring Creek in Fort Collins, Colo. provides year-round opportunities for exploration and experiential investigation of gardening, healthy eating, fitness, and how that correlates to the natural world.
AAHC Forum: A Dream Becomes Reality
June 20, 2013This post is a part of the AAHC Forum. In the coming months we will invite current and past grantees to contribute their project experiences via blog posts on our UpNext Blog and then ask you to respond through the AAHC Virtual Forum. We hope you will add your voice and share your needs and opinions so that AAHC can continue to help African American museums thrive. Please visit the AAHC forum to… Read more
Celebrating Museums and Libraries Champions of Change
June 20, 2013By Susan Hildreth Director, IMLS Each week, the White House features a group of Americans – individuals, businesses and organizations – who are doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities. On June 11, the White House honored twelve museum and library professionals who are strengthening educational, civic and cultural life in American communities.
Student-Designed Apps Address Real University Research Needs
June 19, 2013By David Ward Associate Professor, Undergraduate Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign How would college students design library software if they were in charge? This was a fundamental question we asked as part of our IMLS National Leadership Grant project, The Student/Library Collaborative: Toward Transformative Mobile Library Service.