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Accepting Applications for Native American/Native Hawaiian
Museum Services Grants
January 12, 2009
First
Comprehensive US Government Report on Museum Public Finance
Reveals Complex Funding Patchwork
December 19, 2008
IMLS Publishes FY 2006 Public Libraries Survey Report
December 19, 2008
IMLS
Calls for 2009 Native American Library Grant Applications
December 18, 2008
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| Featured Project Profile |
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| PlayWorks™ Provides Whole-family Learning In a Child-friendly Environment |
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Children feed alphabet letters to a talking baby dragon, drive a New York City fire truck, paint on a six-foot art wall, and crawl through a challenge course in PlayWorks™ at the Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) in New York. Manhattan’s largest public play and learning center for early childhood marries the skills that children need to succeed in kindergarten with fun stuff that kids love. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded the project through a 2006 Museums for America grant to support the museum as a center of community engagement and lifelong learning. Read
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WebWise 2009: Digital Debates
 The
10th annual WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums
in the Digital Age will be held in Washington, DC, February
25-27, 2009. IMLS will partner with The Wolfsonian-Florida
International University and the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation to host this year’s signature
event. The theme of the 2009 conference is “Digital
Debates.” Sessions will feature library and museum
leaders as well as experts outside of the cultural heritage
community who will stimulate conversation and reflect
on the challenges posed by emerging technologies and their
effects on the roles that libraries and museums will play
in the next decade. The conference will open with a half-day
pre-conference workshop on the afternoon of February 25,
followed by the opening reception. The main conference
will begin on February 26 and conclude by noon on February
27. The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency on Capitol
Hill. For registration, agenda, other conference information,
and related events, please go to: http://webwise2009.fcla.edu.
Connecting to Collections: The National
Tour
The Institute of Museum and Library Services
has created Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action:
a multi-year, multi-faceted national initiative to raise
public awareness and inspire action. Visit the Connecting
to Collections Web site to learn more about the four
National Tour forums planned for 2008-2009.
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