IMLS Update: New Initiatives, Trends in National Leadership Grants & Survey Reports

Martha Crawley
Senior Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Barbara G. Smith
Technology Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Dan Lukash
Senior Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services

This session will provide an update on the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), addresing the following topics:

• The new IMLS program on librarian recruitment and education
• The IMLS Framework of Guidance on Building Good Digital Collections
• New funding initiatives within the National Leadership Grant series
• Trends in the current National Leadership Grant
• The third annual Web Wise Conference
• IMLSís legislative reauthorization, in progress
• The New Web tutorial on NLG Project Planning
• A Pilot of online application for some NLG programs
• A Report of a study on user needs assessment in IMLS-funded digitization projects.
  Web Links:
  http://www.imls.gov

  PowerPoint Presentation:
  IMLS Update