• October is Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month

    October 17, 2014

    By Elisabeth Axel President & Creative Director, Art Beyond Sight Each October, Art Beyond Sight (ABS) and our partners around the world celebrate Awareness Month, offering opportunities to highlight inclusion initiatives in museums, libraries and other cultural venues. ABS started Awareness Month in 2003 to raise awareness of the importance of accessibility to the arts for people who are… Read more

  • Public Library Excels at Serving Children with Autism

    October 16, 2014

    October 16, 2014 By Michele Farrell Senior Library Program Officer

  • Interview: Nevada State Library and Archives

    October 7, 2014

    IMLS staff interviewed state librarians to discuss how their new five-year plans for LSTA Grants to States funds (2013-2017) differ from their past plans (2008-2012), and how they see the needs of library users in their states changing and evolving. This post is part of a series and features IMLS Senior Library Program Officer Michele Farrell interviewing State Library and Archives Administrator/… Read more

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    Growing Up at the Library

    October 7, 2014

    The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District was one of 10 winners of the 2014 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor for libraries and museums that are serving their communities in exceptional ways. Community member Avree Walker traveled with Executive Director Jeanne Goodrich to Washington D.C.

  • Sprouting Green Weeding Practices Web-Based Training

    October 6, 2014

    Ed. Note: This blog was originally posted on the Recycled Reads blog. To view the original post and web training materials, click here. This project was funded by IMLS. Photo courtesy of the Austin Public Library

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    The POWRR of Digital Preservation

    October 3, 2014

    By Jaime Schumacher Director of the Digital POWRR Project Northern Illinois University collaborated with a board of advisors and partner libraries at Chicago State University, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Western Illinois University to launch the Digital POWRR Project (Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources) under an IMLS National Leadership Grant.… Read more

  • Nation’s Museums and Libraries Feed Minds and Bodies this Summer

    October 1, 2014

    Ed. Note: This blog was originally posted on the USDA blog.

  • A Comprehensive Strategy to Strengthen STEM Learning Must Include Libraries and Museums

    September 26, 2014

    By Susan H. Hildreth Director, IMLS Quality STEM education is important for the nation as a whole and for individual citizens. A robust and capable STEM workforce is crucial to United States competiveness.

  • Interview: Delaware Division of Libraries

    September 25, 2014

    Annie Norman, State Librarian and Director, Delaware Division of Libraries  

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    Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries & Archives (CCLA) Kicks Off with Inaugural Meeting in Boston

    September 24, 2014

    By Christina Manzo CCLA Research Fellow Tiltfactor Laboratory at Dartmouth College The new Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives (CCLA), a national initiative funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and initiated by Tiltfactor’s director, Mary Flanagan, and Dartmouth archivist Peter Carini, kicked off on September 10, 2014, with a working meeting held at the… Read more