21st Century Skills Profile: Maine Memory Network

21st Century Skills: • Communication & Collaboration • ICT Literacy • Civic Literacy Self-Assessment Categories: • Institutional Assets • Leadership & Management • Partnering • Accountability Recipient: Maine Historical Society Grant: 2007 & 2002 National Leadership Grants 2003 Learning Opportunities Grant Web site: www.mainehistory.org Maine Memory Network (MMN) is a statewide digital museum...

21st Century Skills Profile: The Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library

21st Century Skills: • Basic Literacy • Communication & Collaboration Self-Assessment Categories: • Leadership & Management • Accountability Recipient: The Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library Award: 2007 Native American Library Services Enhancement Grant The "Raising Readers through Programs and Outreach" initiative illustrates the Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library’s commitment to a critical...

21st Century Skills Profile: The Philadelphia Museum of Art

21st Century Skills: • Visual Literacy • Cross-Disciplinary Thinking • Communication & Collaboration • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Self-Assessment Categories: • Partnering • Institutional Assets Recipient: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Award: 2006 National Leadership Grant Web site: www.philamuseum.org Pictured above: Bedroom Painting No. 7, 1967–69, by Tom Wesselmann (Philadelphia Museum...

21st Century Skills Profile: Skokie Public Library

21st Century Skills: • Financial, Economic, Business, and Entrepreneurial Literacy • Communication & Collaboration • Global Awareness Self-Assessment Categories: • Leadership & Management • Partnering • Institutional Assets Recipient: Skokie Public Library Award: 2008 National Medal for Library Service Web site: www.skokie.lib.il.us Skokie, a northern suburb of Chicago, has a current population of...

21st Century Skills Profile: The New York Hall of Science

21st Century Skills: • Life and Career Skills • Communication & Collaboration • Scientific and Numeric Literacy • Global Awareness Self-Assessment Categories: • Human Capital • Leadership & Management • Partnering • Accountability Recipient: The New York Hall of Science Grants: 2006 21st Century Museum Professionals 2004 Museums for America Web site: www.nyscience.org The Science Career Ladder...

August 2009: The Healing Powers of Public Gardens

Recipient: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Grant: 2005 National Leadership Grant Web Site: www.morikami.org Contact: Tom Gregersen Cultural Director (561) 495-0233 x207 tgregers@pbcgov.com Ruth McCaffrey, DNP, ARNP-BC Associate Professor (561) 297-2945 rmccaffr@fau.edu Profile Resources A Manual for Developing a Public Program Many people find public gardens to be relaxing places that...

July 2009: This Library System Means Business

Recipient: Orange County Library System Grant: 2006 National Leadership Grant Pictured: A Technology Trainer teaches a software class to patrons. Photo courtesy of OCLS. Contact: Jo Ann Sampson Project Director 407-835-7460 sampson.joann@ocls.info Web Site: www.ocls.info/gyb/ curriculum The Orlando area has been booming this decade, led in part by a $13.4 billion technology sector that employs 53...

June 2009: Encouraging Family Learning in History Museums

Recipient: USS Constitution Museum, Boston, MA Grant: 2004 IMLS National Leadership Grant, 2008 21st Century Museum Professionals Grant Pictured: A family rests in the hammock, where a sailor in 1812 would have only slept for 4 hours at a time. Contacts: Burt Logan, President (617) 426-1812 Email Anne Grimes, Rand Project Director (617) 426-1812 x 121 Email Web Site: familylearningforum.org Photo...

May 2009: Stuart-Hobson Middle School Discovers and Saves Archival Treasures

Recipient: Stuart-Hobson Midde School Washington, D.C. Grant: 2007 Grants to State Library Agencies Pictured: Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director, with students from the Stuart-Hobson Middle School. Contact: Janice McKinnon janmb2@yahoo.com For decades, irreplaceable PTA scrapbooks, historical school photos, and roll books dating from 1926 to 1967 languished in a little-used room of Capitol Hill’s...

April 2009: Interns Help Restore Sacred Hawaiian Cloaks

Recipient: Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI Grant: 2007 Conservation Project Support (CPS) Pictured: Aimee Ducey, conservation program intern from New York University, removing accretion from the sacred Hawaiian cloak. Websites: www.bishopmuseum.org Contact: Valerie Free, Museum Conservator FreeV@si.edu View More Photos The Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, will exhibit three newly repaired feather...