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IMLS Calls for 2011 Museums for America Grant Applications
August 31, 2010

IMLS Seeks Comments on Public Library Survey
August 27, 2010

IMLS's Making the Learning Connection Campaign Lands in Columbia, South Carolina
August 19, 2010

Primary Source Director's Message, August 2010
August 19, 2010

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September 2010: Students Know Best When It Comes to Online Homework Help

The public library systems in New York City were surprised when their award-winning HomeworkNYC.org site was not popular with students. Using an IMLS planning grant to conduct focus groups with students, the libraries discovered that, in the era of social networking, students don’t want another Web site to go to — but they will use a homework help app on a social networking site.
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WebWise 2010: Imagining the Digital Future

The 2010 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World will be held March 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. This year’s conference is co-hosted by the University of Denver and the Denver Art Museum, and the theme is “Imagining the Digital Future.”  Conference programs will address the successes and innovations of the past as well as the opportunities and challenges that can help drive museum and library sciences into the future.  Topics will include interoperability, the future of collaboration, standards & best practices, technology and systems development, training a 21st century cultural heritage information workforce and strategies to more deeply engage audiences. Read more.

 

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