Examining the Role of Museums and Libraries
in Strengthening Communities

Healthy Families and Communities Hearing
9:30 AM, September 11, 2008

Archived Webcast and testimony from all speakers are available here

Hearing Participants

Opening Statement from Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (NY)

Witnesses:

• Dr. Anne-Imelda M. Radice
  Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
  Read Testimony
• Ms. Suzanne LeBlanc
  Executive Director, Long Island Children’s Museum
  Long Island, New York
• Ms. Mary Clare Zales
  Deputy Secretary of Education, Commonwealth Libraries & Commissioner for Libraries Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Ms. Anna Nunez, MA
  Executive Director, Arizona Health Science Library Librarian University of Arizona
  Tucson, Arizona
• Dr. Eric Jolly
  President, Science Museum of Minnesota
  St. Paul, Minnesota