Nearly 10 years ago, IMLS partnered with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to launch the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. Over the last decade, this program has provided seed money to projects that have had a significant impact on the digital tools and services offered by libraries and museums. For example, they have supported work on digital forensics and born digital archival material , crowdsourcing transcription for special collections , exploring computational methods for identifying and describing content , and developing new methods for managing temporal metadata for collections .Read more
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October 4, 2016
By Michele Farrell IMLS Senior Program Officer Jamie Markus, Wyoming State Librarian at the National Book Festival. Photo by Michele Farrel New Wyoming State Librarian Jamie Markus is a passionate, personable leader, and I had the chance to see his special brand of leadership in action when I...Read more
September 29, 2016
By Office of Museum Services Staff The Office of Museum Services recently published grant guidelines for the Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services program. This is part of a series of blogs highlighting the new grant guidelines and offering tips for applicants. Did you know IMLS offers a...Read more
September 27, 2016
By Office of Museum Services Staff The Office of Museum Services recently published grant guidelines for the FY2017 National Leadership Grants for Museums. This is part of a series of blogs highlighting the new grant guidelines and offering tips for applicants. Recently IMLS posted its 2017...Read more
September 26, 2016
By Dr. Sandra Toro IMLS Program Officer We are pleased to announce four STEMeX awards– the first of their kind for the agency – which fund research on informal educational approaches that make use of the knowledge and skills of community Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) experts...Read more
September 26, 2016
By Mark Isaksen IMLS Senior Program Officer As a resident of Washington, D.C. it’s been exciting for me to watch the years of planning and ongoing construction of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture that opened last Saturday, September 24, 2016. It’s a stunning...Read more
September 26, 2016
By Office of Museum Services Staff The Office of Museum Services recently published grant guidelines for the FY2017 Museums for America grant. This is part of a series of blogs highlighting the new grant guidelines and offering tips for applicants. We are delighted that the official FY2017 Notice...Read more
September 19, 2016
By Michele Farrell IMLS Senior Program Officer The Orem Public Library in Orem, Utah has developed a “Techreation Center” that has proven wildly popular with the community’s youth. The center was developed after the library received $27,662 as a subrecipient of Utah State Library’s Grants to States...Read more
September 19, 2016
By Janelle Carter Brevard IMLS Director of Communications and Government Affairs One of my earliest memories growing up in Mississippi was of my family moving into a new house, the very home where my parents still live today. Back then, our move was a monumental moment as my parents had worked hard...Read more
September 12, 2016
Editorial Note: A previous version of this blog published on September 12, 2016 inadvertently attributed the Zulu greeting reference to Rev. Starsky Wilson. It was in fact made by poet Richard Blanco. By Dr. Marvin D. Carr IMLS Senior Advisor At our recent community catalyst town hall meeting, poet...Read more