Institute of Museum and Library Services

Institute of Museum and Library Services For carrying out the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, $262,596,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the amount provided, $125,000 shall be awarded to the Alabama School of Math and Science at the University of Alabama for technology upgrades and library resources, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, Anchorage, Alaska, to digitize files/photos/videos of Alaskan history, $25,000 shall be awarded to the Alex Haley House Museum, Henning, Tennessee, for care and preservation of collection, $500,000 shall be awarded to the Allen County Historical Society, Lima, Ohio, for the “Move Our Past Forward” project to expand and develop exhibits for their Children’s Discovery Museum Center, $75,000 shall be awarded to the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, 118 STAT. 268 Pennsylvania, for educational programming for school districts, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska, to support programs to teach students and adults how to develop traditional Native arts, $200,000 shall be awarded to the American Village Citizenship Trust, Montevallo, Alabama, for a national initiative for teaching American history and civics, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), Dearborn, Michigan, for exhibits and museum programs, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Ashland Community Arts Center, Ashland, Ohio, for Arts in Downtown project, $75,000 shall be awarded to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to preserve library materials and access to information in the form of digital images on the Internet, $500,000 shall be awarded to the Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, New Jersey, for equipment and exhibits for the Holocaust Library, $400,000 shall be awarded to the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, for activities to preserve the culture of Native Hawaiians, $400,000 shall be awarded to the Bishop Museum in Hawaii to develop Native Hawaiian cultural projects in collaboration with the Peabody Museum of Massachusetts and an Alaskan museum, $900,000 shall be awarded to the Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, Illinois, for community outreach and educational activities, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mount Carroll, Illinois, for community outreach and program planning, $200,000 shall be awarded to the Chaldean Community Culture Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan, for programs that promote Chaldean language, history, culture and teacher training, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Chapman University, Orange, California, for technological infrastructure, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Chartiers Valley Partnership, Inc., Carnegie, Pennsylvania, for technological upgrades and educational programs at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library, $113,000 shall be awarded to the Children’s Museum at La Habra, California, for a Hands On English Program, $144,000 shall be awarded to the Children’s Museum of History, Natural History, Science and Technology, Utica, New York, for technology improvements, staffing and training, $400,000 shall be awarded to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, to develop and implement an integrated curriculum that will utilize its resources in art, science, and history when visiting the museum, $150,000 shall be awarded to the City of Hemet, California, for Hemet Public Library, for library materials and technological equipment, $387,000 shall be awarded to the City of Whittier, California, for the Whittier Public Library Children’s Area and History Room, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Cleveland Health Museum, Cleveland Ohio, for exhibits, $100,000 shall be awarded to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to preserve medical library and art collection, $400,000 shall be awarded to the Davenport Music History Museum in Davenport, Iowa, $75,000 shall be awarded to the Delaware County Historical Society, Media, Pennsylvania, for educational programs highlighting historical themes and sites relating to Delaware County, $75,000 shall be awarded to the East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, to preserve and develop exhibits for their Vintage Radio Programs and Jazz Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Elmwood Zoo, Norristown, Pennsylvania, for student education programs, $75,000 shall be awarded to the Erie County, 118 STAT. 269 Erie, Pennsylvania, for technology upgrades for the Erie County Library, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Fender Museum of the Arts Foundation, Corona, California, for the Kids Rock Free educational program, $200,000 shall be awarded to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for the De Young Museum’s Art Education Program, $1,500,000 shall be awarded to the Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, for school outreach program, $750,000 shall be awarded to the Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, for professional activities, $1,600,000 shall be awarded to the Folger Library, Washington, D.C., for exhibits, operations, and public programs including education and outreach, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Forsyth County Public Library, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for salaries, supplies, personnel and materials, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Gault Family Learning Center, Wooster, Ohio, for PALS/Parenting Resource Center/Growing Together, $250,000 shall be awarded to the General George S. Patton Jr. National Museum of Cavalry and Armor, Fort Knox, Kentucky, $500,000 shall be awarded to the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia, for exhibit design and development and collection preservation, $500,000 shall be awarded to the Grout Museum, Waterloo, Iowa, for exhibits and design of the Sullivan Brothers Veterans Museum and Research Center, $200,000 shall be awarded to the Heritage Harbor Museum of Providence, Rhode Island, for exhibit design and development relating Rhode Island and American history, $150,000 shall be awarded to the Hernando County Library System, Florida, for technology improvements at West Hernando Branch Library, Brooksville Main Library, Spring Hill Library, and East Hernando Branch Library, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Hesperia Community Library, Hesperia, California, $200,000 shall be awarded to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for exhibit and curriculum development for the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, $150,000 shall be awarded to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for exhibit design and development for the Meadowcraft Museum of Rural Life, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, for a Virtual Idaho Museum of Natural History project, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Imaginarium Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska, to develop science exhibits and distance delivery modules, $100,000 shall be awarded to the International Museum of Women to develop exhibits on the history of women’s lives worldwide, $100,000 shall be awarded to the International Storytelling Center, Jonesborough, Tennessee, $100,000 shall be awarded to the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to produce detailed exhibit design and development, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Kishacoquillas Valley Historical Society, Allensville, Pennsylvania, for care and preservation of collection, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, for technology updates to the Skillman Library, $166,000 shall be awarded to the Madera County Resource Management Agency, Madera, California, $21,000 shall be awarded to the Magic House, Kirkwood, Missouri for the development and design of interactive exhibits and software to be used within The Magic Library to support family literacy, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Mary Meuser Memorial Library, Easton, Pennsylvania, for library upgrades, 118 STAT. 270 $250,000 shall be awarded to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in conjunction with the Fairbanks Museum of Art and the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, for costs of mounting the exhibit and for costs associated with bringing the exhibit to Alaska, $350,000 shall be awarded to the Michigan Space and Science Center, Jackson, Michigan, for development of the strategic plan, operational costs and personnel, $450,000 shall be awarded to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi, to complete the preservation and restoration of the Eudora Welty House, $75,000 shall be awarded to the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, for equipment and supplies, and for exhibit design and development, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Morehouse College Library, Atlanta, Georgia, for historical preservation of documents and records, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Mother Bethel Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for care and preservation of collection at the Richard Allen Museum, $225,000 shall be awarded to the Museum of Aviation Foundation Inc., Warner Robins, Georgia, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, Illinois, for educational programming, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts, for technology upgrades and equipment for the National Center for Technology Literacy, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic, Connecticut, to support collections, $50,000 shall be awarded to the National Canal Museum, Easton, Pennsylvania, for educational programming and exhibits on the use of transportation and industrial technology along the Lehigh Canal, $400,000 shall be awarded to the National Center for American Revolution, Wayne, Pennsylvania, for exhibit design and curriculum development for the Museum of the American Revolution at Valley Forge National Historic Park, $50,000 shall be awarded to the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama, for support of events leading into the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, $500,000 shall be awarded to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis for exhibit design and development, and for educational programs, $16,000 shall be awarded to the National Distance Running Hall of Fame, Utica, New York, for display cases and to establish new interactive displays, $500,000 shall be awarded to the National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a teacher training program to assist educators in addressing violence in schools, $650,000 shall be awarded to the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa for exhibits, $200,000 shall be awarded to the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for online educational programming and technology modernization, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Native American Cultural and Educational Authority, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the Oklahoma Native American Culture Center and Museum, to be expended only upon meeting the matching requirements in title III, section 301(b)(2)(B) of Public Law 107–331, $300,000 shall be awarded to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, for exhibits for the Double Play Action Center, $400,000 shall be awarded to the New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium imaging project in Bronx, New York, $900,000 shall be awarded to the New York 118 STAT. 271 Hall of Science to develop, expand, and display science-related educational materials, $420,000 shall be awarded to the Niagara County Historical Society, Lockport, New York, to create a state-of-the-art interpretive museum, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, for the Star Nations Program, $210,000 shall be awarded to the O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, for displays and digitization, $150,000 shall be awarded to the Piper’s Opera House Programs, Inc., Virginia City, Nevada, for exhibit design and development, educational programming, and technology modernization, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to expand arts and after-school programs for at-risk children, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Placer County Library, Auburn, California, to enhance library collection through the purchase of library materials, $977,000 shall be awarded to the Plano Community Library District, Plano, Illinois, for expenses related to the library, $725,000 shall be awarded to the Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to develop educational programs focusing on hands-on learning experiences, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Plumas County Library, Quincy, California, for library materials, $25,000 shall be awarded to the Putnam County Commissioners, Winfield, West Virginia, for technology for the public library system in Putnam County, $200,000 shall be awarded to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, for the Rockin’ the Schools education program, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Saint Tikhon’s Theological Seminary, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, for care and preservation of Russian artifacts, $250,000 shall be awarded to the San Bernardino County, San Bernardino, California, for the San Bernardino County Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Serra Cooperative Library System, San Diego, California, to provide Live Homework Help Project to help students with expert tutors for real-time online instructions, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Los Angeles Museum for Tolerance, Los Angeles, California, for the Tools for Tolerance for Educators program to provide teacher training in diversity, tolerance and cooperation, $25,000 shall be awarded to the Southern New Hampshire Services, Inc., Manchester, New Hampshire, for exhibit acquisition for SEE Science Center, $400,000 shall be awarded to the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Standing Bear Museum and Learning Center, Ponca City, Oklahoma, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the State Historical Society of Iowa in Des Moines, Iowa, for the development of exhibits for the World Food Prize, $200,000 shall be awarded to the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, for educational programming and exhibits, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the Tennessee State University African American History Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, to enhance the library facilities which will include new exhibits, expanded archives, and research programs, $24,000 shall be awarded to The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Old Forge, New York, for the new exhibits spaces and educational programs, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Tifton-Tift County Public Library, Tifton, Georgia, $60,000 shall be awarded to the Tillamook County Library, Tillamook, Oregon, for design and development of exhibits and educational programs, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Town of Greece, Rochester, New York, for the Greece Public Library Security program, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Tuskegee 118 STAT. 272 Multicultural Center, Tuskegee, Alabama, to provide for technology enhancements and installation of exhibits, $400,000 shall be awarded to the University of Idaho for digital archiving and preservation of historically significant American music and facilitating its access to students and scholars nationwide, $500,000 shall be awarded to the Vietnam Archives Center at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, for technology infrastructure, $250,000 shall be awarded to the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, to assist with educational programmatic development and for cataloging and archiving of business history records, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Virginia Living Museum for the expansion of its educational programs in its capital campaign project, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Westminster College Library, New Willmington, Pennsylvania, for technology upgrades and computers and community programming, $600,000 shall be awarded to the WWII Victory Memorial Museum, Auburn, Indiana, for interpretive dioramas, education, research library and visual documentary, and $100,000 shall be awarded to the Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, California, to expand the youTHink education program.