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August 2009 | Morikami Museum
and Japanese Gardens |
Gardens are good for your health, right? In order to
prove this scientifically, the Morikami Museum and Japanese
Gardens in Delray Beach, Fla., collaborated with the
Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University
to create a program targeting a growing demographic:
seniors over age 65 who are dealing with depression.
Read more |
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July 2009 | Orange County
Library System |
To address two workforce training needs in Orlando,
Fla.—technical skills and small business smarts—the
Orange County Library System created the Grow Your Business
program, which offered classroom and online courses
in three languages. Read
more |
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June 2009 | USS Constitution
Museum |
The USS Constitution Museum in Boston is opening a new
exhibit, “All Hands on Deck: A Sailor’s Life in
1812” to bring to life day-to-day existence aboard
the world’s oldest commissioned seafaring vessel. Read
more |
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May 2009 | Stuart-Hobson
Middle School |
For
decades, irreplaceable PTA scrapbooks, historical school
photos, and roll books dating from 1926 to 1967 languished
in a little-used room of Capitol Hill’s Stuart-Hobson
Middle School. Rediscovered during the 2006 renovation
of the school library, the archival treasures shed light
on the ethnic and national origins of the families,
parents’ occupations, and outbreaks of serious
diseases such as scarlet fever. Read
more |
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April 2009 | Bishop Museum |
The
Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, will exhibit three
newly-repaired 'ahu 'ula, sacred feather cloaks worn
by male members of the Hawaiian ali’i, or chiefs,
when it reopens the renovated Hawaiian Hall in August.
Read more |
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March 2009 | KC Science,
INC – Inspiring Natural Curiosity in Science |
Several
years ago, Kansas City leaders decided to boost future
economic growth by developing science and engineering
skills in the area’s work force. There was a problem
though: Kansas City’s workers and students weren’t very
interested in science and engineering. Read
more |
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February 2009 | Civil Rights
Digital Libraries Provide Access |
The
Civil Rights Digital Library by the University of Georgia
in Athens gathers together many of the nation’s civil
rights collections through its ambitious Web portal, while
the Crossroads to Freedom Digital Library at Rhodes College,
Memphis, Tennessee, uses its hometown collections to stimulate
a community conversation on the impact of the civil rights
movement on Memphians. Read
more |
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January 2009 | Children's
Museum of Manhattan: Project PlayWorks™ |
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. Read more |
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December 2008 | Fairfax County
Public Schools: Project ExCELLS |
The
nomadic lifestyle of military families can take a toll
on children’s education. To boost the school performance
of 1,499 elementary school students at Fort Belvoir
Military Post in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, three libraries
in Fairfax County launched Project ExCELLS. Read
more |
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November 2008 | Steve Eases
Online Searches of Museum Web Sites |
For
museums seeking greater and more engaged audiences for
their online collections, steve.museum may offer some
answers. The concept is simple: individuals contribute
descriptions about the art (and other collection objects)
on museum Web sites using the steve tagger. Read
more |
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October 2008 | IMLS 2008
National Medal for Museum and Library Service |
Five
museums and five libraries have won the 2008 National
Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest
honor for institutions that make significant and exceptional
contributions to their communities. Read
more |
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September 2008 | Florida African
American Museum Exchange |
The
Florida African American Museum Exchange (FAAME) is
building a robust alliance of African American museums
throughout the state of Florida to preserve and present
historically significant documents, photos, artifacts,
and buildings. Read
more |
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August 2008 | Syracuse University |
Fifteen
library and information science schools share high quality,
cost-effective, and diverse online courses with each
other’s students via the Web-based Information
Science Education Consortium, or WISE. Read
more |
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July 2008 | Tennessee Aquarium |
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.
Read more |
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June 2008 | Western Council
of State Libraries |
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.
Read more |
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May 2008 | Oriental Institute
Museum of the University of Chicago |
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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March 2008 | Plinkits: Pre-built
Library Web Sites that Libraries Love |
Plinkit,
which stands for "Public Library Interface Kit,"
provides small libraries that have little to no web
presence with a great Web site and the training necessary
to update and maintain it. Read
more |
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February. 2008 | Oregon Museum
of Science and Industry |
One
of the winners of the 2007 National Medal for Museum
Service, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is
part brain-powered playground for kids and adults, part
cutting-edge classroom for communities across the state.
Read more |
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January 2008 | Lincoln Trail
Libraries System |
In
Illinois’ Lincoln Trail Libraries System and beyond,
a pioneering new program that is putting patrons in
touch with people who know their language best and can
connect them to the information they need. Read
more |
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December 2007|
Amazement Square |
To visit Amazement Square is to enter a world where
art and adolescence colorfully collide. For the students
of Laurel Regional School, who live with severe mental
and physical disabilities, it is not your typical field
trip. But an IMLS-funded program makes those trips as
typical as possible. Read
more |
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November. 2007|
Rutgers University |
Garden State communities are quickly finding that history
and high-tech intersect on the New Jersey Digital Highway,
a newly developed web portal that is linking historical
institutions around the state and helping to digitize
their rich collections. Read
more |
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October 2007|
Japanese American National Museum |
Educators in five states are shedding new light on one
of the nation’s darkest chapters – the internment
of Japanese Americans. Enduring Communities is a three-year
project that will incorporate this poignant perspective
into public school history curricula. Read
more |
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September 2007|
George Mason University |
Ask a roomful of librarians to name the most tedious
aspect of their work and writing and managing bibliographies
will be at the top of the list. Researchers from the
Center for History and New Media of George Mason University,
funded in part by IMLS, have all but solved this problem
with Zotero software. Read
more |
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July 2007| Vermont
Division for Historic Preservation |
The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation is using
a Partnership for a Nation of Learners grant to recruit
pre-school through college teachers and others to help
excavate a rare, mid-18th century French settlement
in Addison, VT. Read
more |
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June 2007| Girl
Scout Troop 4563 |
By introducing young people to conservation, we help
cultivate the next generation of adults who value our
nation’s collections and their conservation. With
this in mind, IMLS invited Girl Scout Troop 4563 in
Arlington, VA, to participate in a conservation project.
Read more |
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May 2007| Omaha
Virtual Museum |
The Omaha Virtual Museum collects on its website widely
dispersed artifacts, culturally important texts, and
photographs of the Omaha tribe. Use of new media is
helping the tribe maintain its culture now and for future
generations. Read
more |
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April 2007| Children’s
Museums Offer Support in Turbulent Times |
When disaster struck, the Children's Museum of Manhattan
and the Louisiana Children's Museum offered each other
much-needed assistance. An encouraging word, a timely
donation, and a play-based program forged an enduring
bond and created role models for the rest of us. Read
more |
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March 2007| Looking
Back: Three Conservation Profiles |
For our March Project Profile, the Institute is taking
a look back at three recipients of our Conservation
Project Support grants. As the details of IMLS’
Connecting to Collections initiative unfold, we want
to shine a spotlight on some of the important conservation
work that the Institute has funded in the past. Read
more |
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November/December
2006 | National Awards for Museum and Library Service |
This month’s project profile highlights the winners
of the 2006 National Awards for Museum and Library service,
our nation’s highest honor for the exemplary public
service offered by these institutions. Read
more |
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October 2006 |
Maine Historical Society |
A digital museum launched in 2001, the Maine Memory
Network is a centralized online gateway to Maine history,
provideing Maine’s cultural organizations with
the resources they need to share images and items from
their own collections. Read
more |
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September 2006
| National Constitution Center |
The National Constitution Center’s recent blockbuster
exhibition was presented in celebration of the 300th
anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth in January
2006 and was made possible through an IMLS grant. Read
more |
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July 2006 | Hall
of Health |
Made possible through IMLS funding, a new field trip
program of the Hall of Health educates 10- to 14-year-olds
about body image, the consequences of being over- or
under-weight, and making healthy food choices. Read
more |
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June 2006 | St.
Louis Art Museum |
Blessing Christ is one few examples of medieval
Spanish sculpture represented in American museum collections.
Having not been on view for over 30 years, its condition
was extremely fragile, before an IMLS grant enabled
the St. Louis Art Museum to stabilize the piece.
Read more |
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May 2006 | Upper
Hudson Library System |
To succeed in the 21st century the youth of today need
skills in math, science, and technology. The Sky Camp
project paired middle school teachers with the lifelong
learning resources of public libraries to create a year-long
educational series, enabling teens’ imaginations
to take flight. Read
more |
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April 2006 | Central
Park Zoo |
The conservation message is challenging for zoos to
present quickly and effectively. The Central Park Zoo,
an innovator in interpretive concepts for zoos, has
turned to poetry in its quest to portray the significance
of the earth’s loss of biodiversity. Read
more |
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March 2006 | Pratt
Museum |
The Pratt Museum's summer internship program is one
way that the museum addresses the national need to provide
students with national history and science education
and provide job opportunities for local teens. Read
more |
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February 2006
| Washington State Library |
The Washington State Library’s K–12 Library
Initiative empowers school library staff with leadership
skills, and has been the farthest reaching training
program ever offered to the state’s school librarians.
Read more |
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January 2006 |
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust |
The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust’s Architect
Studio 3D is an interactive Web-based activity that
enables users to become virtual architects, finding
design solutions that meet the needs of virtual clients
and virtual building sites.
Read more |
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December 2005
| IUPUI University Library |
Knowing that art can be a powerful teaching tool in
the K-12 classroom, the IUPUI University Library sought
to provide a value-added resource for education.
Read more |
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November 2005
| New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science |
The
towering dinosaur fossil displays, the realistic cave
exhibit, and the interactive simulated volcanoes at
the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
are catalysts for scientific exploration for adults
and children alike.
Read more |
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October 2005
| State Library and Archives of Florida |
The
State Library and Archives of Florida received a rich
collection from the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs
that was virtually unusable because there were no finding
aids for it.
Read more |
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September 2005
| Young At Art Children's Museum |
Homeless
children are by most accounts among the fastest growing
segments of the homeless population, accounting for
25 percent of the urban homeless population. Read
more |