Demonstrating Impact: Effective Library Summer Learning
June 21, 2016By Emily Samose Urban Libraries Council Consider this: Do public libraries positively improve education outcomes for children and youth through their summer reading and summer learning programs? How will they know?
Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum: Real Tools Makerspace Helps Visitors Explore
June 21, 2016Editor's Note: This is the third post in a series during this National Week of Making to highlight Making in museums and libraries. By Rebecca Shulman Herz Director, Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum
Maker Jawn Initiative: A Place to Explore, Tinker and Learn
June 20, 2016Editor's Note: This is the second in a series during this National Week of Making to highlight Making in museums and libraries. By Sarah Winchowky Project Manager, Maker Jawn Initiative
Museums and Libraries Engaged in the National Week of Making Festivities
June 17, 2016By Tim Carrigan IMLS Senior Program Officer Today kicks off the second National Week of Making, a time when community-based organizations, including libraries and museums, will host events and celebrations to highlight the inventors, hackers, designers, engineers, artists and DIYers that make up this ever-growing community.
IMLS-funded Cataloguing Project Enables Shell Museum to Improve Intellectual Control over Its Collection
June 8, 2016June 8, 2016 By Dr. José H. Leal, Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum In early May 2016, the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum reached the milestone of 100,000 catalogued lots in its mollusk (mostly “dry shells”) collection. This high-priority, IMLS-funded cataloguing project, which includes web dissemination of a searchable version of the catalogue, has been funded by two “Museums… Read more
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Leveraging Library Services to Expand Lifelong Learning Opportunities: Four New IMLS Funded Projects
June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 By Tim Carrigan Senior Program Officer, IMLS
Expansive and Inclusive Digital Access: Five New IMLS funded Projects
May 6, 2016May 6, 2016 By Emily Reynolds, Program Officer, Office of Library Services,IMLS
Sharing and Distributing Authority: Six Projects Supporting Linked Open Data Infrastructure for Libraries
May 5, 2016By Dr. Trevor Owens, Senior Program Officer, Office of Library Services, IMLS
StoryCorps Interview from New York Hall of Science (NYSCI)
May 2, 2016Myrna Tinoco and Delia Meza Myrna Tinoco: I have a five year old and a twenty-month baby. And from the first time we entered this space it seemed welcoming, engaging, interesting. My kid could run around get his hands on stuff and he enjoyed it.
StoryCorps interview at The Tech Museum of Innovation
May 2, 2016Mallika Yeleswarapu and Lauren Cage Mallika Yeleswarapu: Do you think you would go into STEM education? Is that what you wanted to do when you grew up? Lauren Cage: Actually, absolutely not. MY: Yeah?