AAHC Forum: Former Journalist Reviving Lost History, Culture at The Kansas African American Museum
April 25, 2013This post is a part of the AAHC Forum. In the coming months we will invite current and past grantees to contribute their project experiences via blog posts on our UpNext Blog and then ask you to respond through the AAHC Virtual Forum. We hope you will add your voice and share your needs and opinions so that AAHC can continue to help African American museums thrive. Please visit the AAHC forum to… Read more
Orpheus by Miles Hewitt
April 24, 2013By Eleanor Greene Intern, IMLS April is National Poetry Month, and IMLS salutes the country’s first National Student Poets. IMLS and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) partnered with the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers to create the National Student Poets Program, which bestows the nation’s highest honor for youth poets whose original work exhibits… Read more
Piggy Bank Tales: Teaching Children how to Manage Money
April 24, 2013By Linda Filkosky District Library Consultant, Altoona District Libraries Funding from the IMLS Grants to States program has given librarians in the Altoona District of Pennsylvania and throughout the state a great opportunity to use their personal connections with parents, grandparents, caregivers, and children to present an expanded children’s financial program called Piggy Bank Tales.
HELP Advance: Supporting the Small Museum
April 23, 2013By Abby Dean Program Communications Manager, Mid-America Arts Alliance Based in the country’s heartland, our organization, Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA), serves a six-state region that’s rich with small, eclectic museums, all of which play a vital role in providing educational experiences and preserving local history. Small and rural museums are not just the largest museum sector, they are… Read more
Uncovering the Hidden Reproductive Lives of Salamanders
April 22, 2013For Earth Day, IMLS presents blogs by two scientists who are working on an IMLS-funded project to save salamanders that are in danger of extinction worldwide. By Ruth Marcec PhD Student, Mississippi State University When I graduated veterinary school one year ago and told my friends I was going on for an additional graduate degree in reproductive physiology and conservation of salamanders, … Read more
Saving Salamanders with Science
April 22, 2013For Earth Day, IMLS presents blogs by two scientists who are working on an IMLS-funded project to save salamanders that are in danger of extinction worldwide. By Hannah Bement PhD Student, Mississippi State University Saving Salamanders with Science When I was a kid, I knew that flipping over the right log could lead to a magical discovery – the quick flash of a salamander scurrying away in… Read more
Connecting Worlds Through Internet and Imagination
April 19, 2013By Eleanor Greene Intern, IMLS Libraries often connect people to other worlds by lending books, movies, and other resources that let people imagine worlds outside their own. But Naturita Community Library in Naturita, Colo., connects people to their own world by providing rare internet access to community members that visit it. Library director Paul Paladino discusses the improved technology and… Read more
AAHC Forum: Conservation Assessment Program Helps Revitalize the I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium
April 18, 2013This post is a part of the AAHC Forum. In the coming months we will invite current and past grantees to contribute their project experiences via blog posts on our UpNext Blog and then ask you to respond through the AAHC Virtual Forum. We hope you will add your voice and share your needs and opinions so that AAHC can continue to help African American museums thrive. Please visit the AAHC forum to… Read more
Laws of Thermodynamics by Claire Lee
April 17, 2013April is National Poetry Month, and IMLS salutes the country’s first National Student Poets. IMLS and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) partnered with the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers to create the National Student Poets Program, which bestows the nation’s highest honor for youth poets whose original work exhibits exceptional creativity,… Read more
Library of Congress Naturalization Ceremony and New Partnership with USCIS
April 16, 2013By Susan Hildreth, Director, IMLS I was privileged to be a part of a ceremony at the Library of Congress in which 25 people took the Oath of Allegiance to become citizens of the United States of America. I joined Librarian of Congress Dr. James Billington, USCIS director Alejandro Mayorkas, and chief of staff of the District of Columbia Public Library Eva Poole, in an elegant room of the Thomas… Read more