Surveying the Present
July 11, 2014By Maria Raviele Evaluation Officer, IMLS Ed note: This is a cross-post from the Day of Archaeology Blog. You can find the original blog post here. Four years ago I was an environmental archaeologist focused on prehistoric peoples living in the Great Lakes and Northeast with plans to remain on the academic track. I specialized in research on how humans modified their environment through the… Read more
Food for Thought: Fueling the Mind in Kentucky
July 9, 2014By Michele Farrell Senior Library Program Officer Kentucky has developed an interesting way of addressing two problems: the slide in reading skills that happens over the summer months, and hunger. While on my site visit, I got to meet with people who are making a difference in the lives of children and teens in Kentucky. As Heather Dieffenbach, children and youth consultant at the Kentucky… Read more
Food, Glorious Food!
June 30, 2014The Food, Glorious Food! exhibit at the Bellefonte Art Museum for Centre County celebrates the local natural resources of Central Pennsylvania that grace our tables. The art installation runs from June 1 to August 31 in the Windows on the World gallery and includes sculpture, photographs, paintings and botanical drawings created by 20 museum artists that all relate to food.
The National Student Poets Take New York (again!)
June 27, 2014Ed note: This is a cross-post from the AYAW Blog.
Libraries and Adult Education Program Team Up on Digital Literacy
June 26, 2014By: Sandra Toro, Ph.D., IMLS, and Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Ph.D., Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education The recent results of the international “Survey of Adult Skills” estimated that 36 million Americans are low-skilled in literacy, and 3 million are eager to gain additional education and training but are hampered by barriers such as transportation, child… Read more
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Interview: Nebraska Library Commission
June 25, 2014Rodney G. Wagner, Director, Nebraska Library Commission
Making at the White House Maker Faire
June 18, 2014By Susan H. Hildreth Director, IMLS Today I had the pleasure of joining President Obama at the first-ever White House Maker Fair. It was quite an event with dozens of exhibits. My favorite? A larger than life-size electric giraffe! More than four hundred participants had the special opportunity to walk with robots, play life-size board games, and glimpse the world through a cell phone… Read more
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The African American Theater History Project: Bringing Together African American Theater and Cultural History from Libraries Around the Country
June 6, 2014By Cecily Marcus Curator, Givens Collection of African American Literature University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections Over 300 years of African American theater history, from its earliest influences to its current artists and leaders, is too often inaccessible and inadequately represented. The political and cultural histories to which this culturally specific art refers… Read more