Category: Blog
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New Grants Help 12 Museums and Libraries Plan and Design New Learning Labs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On November 8, 2012, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced the second round of winners of a national competition to design 21st century Learning Labs in museums and libraries around the country. The 12 winners—five museums and seven libraries—will…
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YOUmedia turns teens into DIY rock stars
“Enter Harold Washington Library from the State Street entrance and you might just think you’ve gone in the wrong building. You’ll find the room filled with teenagers listening to booming music and glued to laptop screens. You’re in the right place – you’ve just found YOUmedia, a whole new take on library culture.” Read more…
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Library of Games Podcast Extrasode: Interview with Katie Salen
In our final Chicago Humanities Festival Interview we talk to Katie Salen the founder Katie Salen is professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, and former director of the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons The New School for Design, a research center in New York focused on emerging trends…