The
Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums
that connect people to information and ideas. Read
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Director's Message
In 2005, the Heritage Health Index report revealed that our nation’s collections of objects,
documents, and digital materials were not only essential to America’s cultural health, but were
imperiled and in need of swift protective action. Read
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The Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills
initiative underscores the critical role our nation’s
museums and libraries play in helping citizens build such
21st century skills as information, communications and technology
literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity,
civic literacy, and global awareness. Read
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Multimedia
on the IMLS Web site
Now available: Libraries to the Rescue podcast
series. Read
more. Also, watch the webcasts from IMLS events and view
video highlights from IMLS initiatives and more on the Multimedia
page.
Volunteer Voices: Tennessee’s Rich History Is Collected Online
Tennessee history abounds with major
events—Civil War battles, the Scopes trial about the teaching of evolution, the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and much more. Thousands of documents,
photographs, and other items are held throughout the state, but they had never been
assembled in one place. Now, with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS), researchers and librarians in Tennessee have created
volunteervoices.org, a rich online collection of nearly 11,000 documents and
photographs about life through the decades in the Volunteer State
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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.
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