We in the Office of Public and Legislative
Affairs want to assist your institution in sharing your
project with the museum and library community. In order
to accomplish this, we ask that you keep us in the loop
as your grant project moves forward. We’d like to
know if you produce a publication, create a Web site,
or hold an event as part of your grant activities. Keeping
informed about our grantees allows us to select grant
institutions and events to highlight on our Web site and
in other channels of communication, to help you spread
the word about your grant.
Project
Profiles
Each month, we select a past grantee and write a feature
story about its grant project for our Web site. These
feature stories are prominently positioned our Web site’s
homepage, and are featured in our monthly E-Newsletter,
Primary Source.
The Project Profiles are broken out into
sections that help illustrate the impact of grant projects:
- Need: Identifies a specific need
in the grantee institution or its community
- Goals: Identifies the grant project’s
goals, and describes how the project will meet the need
established above
- Strategy: Clarifies the grantee institution’s
strategies and tactics for executing the project
- Community Change: Outlines the results
that the project is producing, and how they impact the
grantee’s community
- Resources: Links to resources that
the project has generated, such as project plans, presentations,
or publications
Project Profiles also feature a link to
the grantee’s Web site, a photo of the project in
action, and the institution’s contact information.
Primary
Source
The Institute’s E-Newsletter, Primary Source, is
delivered to more than 10,000 museum and library professionals
(and growing!) each month. In addition to highlighting
the grantee institution selected for that month’s
Project Profile, each Primary Source newsletter includes
“IMLS on the Road,” a list of upcoming dates
and times where you can hear speeches or see presentations
about our grant projects and other Institute activities.
If someone from your institution will be giving a presentation
about your grant project, of if your institution is holding
a project kick-off event, we want to know about it so
we can include it on this list. Please e-mail information
about your presentation or event to jmjoseth@imls.gov.
Web Database
Our Web site features a searchable database of awards.
At the time your grant is awarded, we add your grant to
our database. If at any time you develop a page on your
own Web site that is related to your grant project, please
let us know by e-mailing the link to earnold@imls.gov.
We will add this link to our Web database, so that colleagues
browsing our Web site can find their way to yours.
If you would like to learn more about how
your institution can take advantage of these opportunities,
call the Office of Public and Legislative Affairs at (202)653-4757. |
