1.5 Million Invested in Cultivating Digital Stewardship Professionals
April 29, 2016April 29, 2016 By Emily Reynolds IMLS Program Officer
ICYMI: Grant Applications Performance Measurement
April 29, 2016As 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. April 29, 2016 By Dr. Connie Cox Bodner Supervisory Grants Management Specialist, IMLS
Windows of Opportunity at Maymont Mansion
April 27, 2016April 27, 2016 By Dale Wheary Maymont Mansion 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?
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Performance Partnership Pilots: An Opportunity to Improve Outcomes for Disconnected Youth
April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 By Teri DeVoe, Senior Program Officer, State Programs, IMLS Federal agencies have released a second call for bold proposals to improve education, employment, and other key outcomes for disconnected youth.
Exciting Promise in Latest Grants to Build Capacity to Collect, Manage & Preserve Born Digital Information
April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 By Dr. Trevor Owens, Senior Program Officer, Office of Library Services, IMLS
A National Student Poet Reflects
April 20, 2016Editor’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 year are a community service project, which they design and execute, and National Poetry Month when the… Read more
Welcome to the Museum of the City of New York’s Dressing Room
April 15, 2016By Lindsay Turley and Jenny Shalant Museum of the City of New York
StoryCorps Interview at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
April 14, 2016Tracey Baptiste and Renée Watson RW: I grew up in the black community of Portland, which is Northeast Portland. But right outside of that, I mean, you could be the only person of color… Read more
StoryCorps Interview from the Los Angeles Public Library
April 14, 2016Sylvia Galan-Garcia and Lupie Leyva Lupie Leyva: What inspired you to become a librarian? What did you see as the value of public libraries that made you want to become a librarian in the first place?
StoryCorps Interview from the Louisiana Children’s Museum
April 13, 2016Saundra Reed and Deirdre Burel Saundra Reed: PLTI started off to be you engage parents once a week for twenty weeks, and you talk about civics, and you talk about budgets, and you talk about how people live in community, and work in community, and make change happen, and express the desires of their hearts, and come up with projects, and programs, etcetera, etcetera.