(27 Oct 2021) The Institute of Museum and Library Services, in partnership with Reinvestment Fund, have released a new study, Understanding the Social Wellbeing Impacts of the Nation’s Libraries and Museums, which examines the role of museums and libraries in promoting social wellbeing in communities across the United States. The multi-year, multi-market study found the…
(13 July 2018, Issue No:514) Virginia Tech is leading a project to make web archives more valuable to researchers worldwide by developing course materials and cyber infrastructure to teach librarians and archivists internationally how to collect, extract and analyse archived information from the World Wide Web. The Institute of Museum and Library Services recently awarded…
(5 July 2018) Christine Wolff-Eisenberg writes that last November, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) convened experts to explore how to strengthen the formal education component of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant program to best support library and information science programs to meet the needs of students and libraries while increasing…
(8 October 2013) The Institute of Museum and Library Services, IMLS, has awarded USD50,000 to the The American Library Association (ALA), in consultation with thought leaders from the library and information science community and from other sectors, to establish the Center for the Future of Libraries. The goal will be to provide library planners and…