We recently bid farewell to IMLS’s first international fellow, Maisy Stapleton, CEO of Museums & Galleries New South Wales, the key support agency for the museum and gallery sector in the Australian state that includes Sydney. Read more
WebWise
2009: Digital Debates
The
10th annual WebWise
Conference was held in
Washington, DC, February 25-27, 2009. Sessions featured library
and museum leaders as well as experts outside of the cultural
heritage community who stimulated conversation and reflected
on the challenges posed by emerging technologies.
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International Strategic Partnership Initiative
We live in a global society and American libraries and museums
have so much to share with, and learn from, people engaged
in library and museum work throughout the world. Read
more about our international strategic partnership initiative.
Interns Help Restore Sacred Hawaiian Cloaks
The Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, will exhibit three newly repaired feather cloaks
when it reopens the renovated Hawaiian Hall in August. Known as ‘ahu ‘ula, the cloaks
were worn by male members of the Hawaiian ali’i, the chiefly or royal class in traditional
Hawaiian society. Each magnificent cloak, one of which dates back to the mid-18th century, is made
of bundles of tiny red and yellow feathers of now-extinct birds secured to a net foundation. Read more
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