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Summer Learning is Important to Student Success

By Susan Hildreth Director, IMLS In the coming days and weeks, millions of K-12 students will celebrate the end of the school year, but behind the celebration are some pretty grim statistics. Not all of these students will have equal … Continue reading

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Museums and Libraries Can Promote 21st Century Skills

By Susan Hildreth Director, IMLS Since our Museums, Libraries and 21st Century Skills initiative was launched in 2009 we have been inspired by the stories of many libraries and museums that are taking action to become 21st century institutions. They … Continue reading

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Digital Communities and the Second Anniversary of the National Broadband Plan

By Susan Hildreth Director, IMLS This week marks the second anniversary of the National Broadband Plan which set a roadmap for increasing rates of broadband adoption and use in the U.S. Since the plan was released, we have been working … Continue reading

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IMLS on YouTube: A Few Minutes with Ian MacKaye

By Ellen Arnold Losey Senior Graphic Designer and Webmaster, IMLS There are a lot of important museum and library “mover and shaker” names that I hear around the IMLS Office of Communications and Government Affairs – our grantees, our partners, … Continue reading

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