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Tuesday, 6th April 2010

New Twitter Stream from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

A quick note to alert those who follow the library community via Twitter that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has gone live with their Twitter feed.

You can find it at:

www.Twitter.com/US_IMLS. A couple of posts were already online when we checked and less than one day into it, they have over 300 followers. Interesting to note that several of them near the bottom of the page are dated May, 2009. Hmm. Our guess is that IMLS had a feed back then but didn't promote it (like they're doing now) so no one used it. Btw, they also have an RSS feed.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services offers a couple of other "2.0" services including:

1. UpNext: The Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki

IMLS’s first-ever wiki is a platform where individuals inside and outside of museums, libraries, and related fields can discuss, dissect, expand, and inform the issues outlined in the Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide.

2. Open Government Web Page
This page includes a list of IMLS datasets available on Data.gov.

If you're not familiar with IMLS, here's their mission statement and an overview.

Their web site also contains lists of available grants and profiles of some of the programs and services that receive grants via IMLS. For example, heres a profile of Plink-It, the Public Library Interface Kit.

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