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Florida African American Museum Exchange Builds Alliance to Preserve History |
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| Aug 2008
| 5 Library Schools Share Quality Online Courses |
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Fifteen library
and information science (LIS) schools share online courses
with each other’s students via WISE, the Web-based
Information Science Education Consortium. Through the
award-winning distance education program, the schools
provide students with elective courses that are high
quality, cost-effective, and diverse. Read more |
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| July 2008
| Tennessee Aquarium |
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Seven Chattanooga museums,
working closely with school principals, teachers, and parents,
are using museum collections to enhance and energize the curricula
of two museum magnet schools in Magnifying the Museums:
Enhancing Chattanooga’s Museum Magnet School Partnership.
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| June 2008
| Western Council of State Libraries |
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Native American archivists,
librarians, cultural directors, educators, museum staff members,
and elders are creating communities to support tribal cultural
preservation through a series of national conferences, institutes,
and workshops.
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| May 2008
| Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago |
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Students across the
country are digging into the secrets of ancient Mesopotamia
through a teaching Web site called Ancient Mesopotamia:
This History, Our History, which allows students to direct
virtual archeological expeditions and curate museum exhibits
with the excavated artifacts. Read
more |
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