Institute of Museum and Library Services

Institute of Museum and Library Services Office of Museum and Library Services: Grants and Administration For carrying out the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, $282,827,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the amount provided, $100,000 shall be awarded to Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for exhibits and programming associated with the Lewis and Clark expedition, $300,000 shall be awarded to Alaska Native Heritage Museum, Anchorage, AK in cooperation with the Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation for its Elders Oral History Project, $50,000 shall be awarded to Alex Haley House and Museum, Henning, TN to preserve collections and improve exhibits, $100,000 shall be awarded to Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for exhibit design and development, $100,000 shall be awarded to Allentown Public Library, Allentown, Pennsylvania, for technological upgrades and educational programs, $400,000 shall be awarded to AMISTAD America, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, for an endowment fund as authorized under Public Law 108–184, $320,000 shall be awarded to Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, for faculty research fellowship and student internship programs, $50,000 shall be awarded to Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston, Alabama, for enhanced classroom curriculum, $100,000 shall be awarded to Antiquarian & Landmarks Society, Hartford, Connecticut, for the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry, $100,000 shall be awarded to Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), Dearborn, Michigan, for exhibits and museum programs, $75,000 shall be awarded to Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for conservation and preservation of library materials, $75,000 shall be awarded to Audubon Pennsylvania, Audubon, Pennsylvania, for exhibits and nature education programs at the Mill Grove Audubon Center, $200,000 shall be awarded to Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California, for exhibits, education programs and outreach at its Southwest Museum of the American Indian and/or its Museum of the American West, $200,000 shall be awarded to Baylor University, Waco, Texas, for archival activities, exhibits, and education 118 STAT. 3154 programs for the Mayborn Museum Complex, $500,000 shall be awarded to Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, New Jersey, for equipment, exhibits and preservation of collections, $125,000 shall be awarded to Bibliographical Society of America, New York, New York, $500,000 shall be awarded to Bishop Museum in Hawaii for digitization of old Hawaiian language newspapers and other activities to preserve the culture of Native Hawaiians, $100,000 shall be awarded to Boys and Girls Harbor, New York, New York, for the preservation and digitalization of Raices Collection, a multi-media collection documenting the history of Afro-Caribbean Latin music in America, $75,000 shall be awarded to Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, for preservation and management of its archives, $50,000 shall be awarded to Business Association of West Parkside, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to exhibit the Negro Leagues Baseball Memorial, $200,000 shall be awarded to Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio, to develop and implement the HeARTland program, $100,000 shall be awarded to Cape Cod Maritime Museum, Hyannis, Massachusetts, for the development of exhibitions and programs, $100,000 shall be awarded to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for preservation of collections at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, $25,000 shall be awarded to Catawba County Historical Association, Newton, North Carolina, $200,000 shall be awarded to Chaldean Community Culture Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan, for programs that promote Chaldean language, history, culture and teacher training, $400,000 shall be awarded to Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan, for exhibits, education programs, technology and operations, $84,000 shall be awarded to Cherry Hill Township in New Jersey for improved library technology, $150,000 shall be awarded to Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, for expansion of the Chicago Historical Society’s collections and exhibits, $200,000 shall be awarded to Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn, Oak Lawn, Illinois, for its “Explore and Soar” education program, $100,000 shall be awarded to City of Henderson, North Carolina, for personnel, equipment and technology for the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library, $200,000 shall be awarded to City of Jackson, Mississippi, for the Medger Wiley Evers Museum for program and exhibit design and development, $250,000 shall be awarded to City of Jackson, Tennessee, to support technology upgrades at the Jackson-Madison County Public Library, $150,000 shall be awarded to City of Murrieta Public Library, Murrieta, California, for a Literacy thru Technology Program, $500,000 shall be awarded to Claude Pepper Center in Tallahassee, Florida for the digitization of library holdings, $100,000 shall be awarded to College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to preserve its medical library and art collection, $50,000 shall be awarded to Colleton County Memorial Library, Walterboro, South Carolina, for books and library materials, $76,000 shall be awarded to Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, to develop, test, and fabricate the exhibition, train teachers and docents and publicize the project and produce related educational materials, $72,000 shall be awarded to Contra Costa County, Martinez, California, for the Contra Costa Reads program, $300,000 shall be awarded to Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire for educational programs and community outreach, $825,000 shall be awarded to Des Moines Arts Center for the protection of the current collection, $500,000 shall be awarded to 118 STAT. 3155 East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, to expand and develop exhibits that teach of the culture and history of east Tennessee, $30,000 shall be awarded to Edison House Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, for educational programs, $100,000 shall be awarded to Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania, $430,000 shall be awarded to Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, for an Oral History Program, $100,000 shall be awarded to Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, Virginia, for its Motheread/Fatheread Plus family literacy initiative, $800,000 shall be awarded to Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, for establishing networked computer database for collections management, $100,000 shall be awarded to Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for the De Young Museum’s Art Education Program, $275,000 shall be awarded to Florence Library Learning Center, Los Angeles, California, for reading and other education programs, $650,000 shall be awarded to Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, for professional activities, $500,000 shall be awarded to Folger Library, Washington, D.C., for exhibits, operations, and public programs including education and outreach, $50,000 shall be awarded to Frederick Douglass Museum, Washington, D.C., for an African American cultural outreach center, $75,000 shall be awarded to Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for technology and equipment upgrades, $350,000 shall be awarded to George Washington University, Washington, D.C., for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, $12,000 shall be awarded to Greenburgh Public Library, Tarrytown, New York, for computers and technology, $50,000 shall be awarded to Greensburg Hempfield Area Public Library, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, for computers, $500,000 shall be awarded to Grout Museum, Waterloo, Iowa, for exhibitions, $200,000 shall be awarded to Harbor Heritage Society, Cleveland, Ohio, for MAKING WAVES: Vessel-wide interpretive exhibit planning for the Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum, $250,000 shall be awarded to HealthSpace Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, for exhibits, $75,000 shall be awarded to Hellenic Cultural Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, for exhibit and program development at the Hellenic Cultural Museum, $150,000 shall be awarded to Hendry County, LaBelle, Florida, for books and technology for Harlem Library, $500,000 shall be awarded to Hesperia Community Library, Hesperia, California, $75,000 shall be awarded to Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for exhibit and curriculum development for the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, $75,000 shall be awarded to HistoryMakers, Chicago, Illinois, to create a digital archive dedicated to preserving the history and accomplishments of African Americans, $150,000 shall be awarded to Home Port Alliance for the USS New Jersey for restoration and preservation, $100,000 shall be awarded to Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, $250,000 shall be awarded to Hunter College, New York, New York, to digitize, preserve and archive collections of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and for public access and dissemination activities, $300,000 shall be awarded to Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, for exhibits, technology, outreach and education programs, $300,000 shall be awarded to International Museum of Women, San Francisco, California, for education and teacher professional development programs, $75,000 shall be awarded to Iona College, New York, for technology upgrade for the Ryan Library, $150,000 shall be awarded to Italian-American 118 STAT. 3156 Cultural Center of Iowa in Des Moines, Iowa, for exhibits, multi-media collections, display, $72,000 shall be awarded to Jackson County Library System, Ripley, West Virginia, $415,000 shall be awarded to James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for exhibits and education programs, $350,000 shall be awarded to Johnstown Area Heritage Association, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, for exhibits and education programs for the Heritage Discovery Center, $25,000 shall be awarded to Josephine School Community Museum, Berryville, Virginia, $400,000 shall be awarded to Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, for the 20th Century Soldier Project, $250,000 shall be awarded to Kidspace Children’s Museum, Pasadena, California, to develop its Shake Zone Education Exhibit, $100,000 shall be awarded to Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, for technology updates to the David Bishop Skillman Library, $50,000 shall be awarded to Livingston Parish Hungarian Museum, Denham Springs, Louisiana, $500,000 shall be awarded to Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, Ohio, for a Cradle of Christianity: Biblical Treasures from the Holy Land traveling exhibition, $250,000 shall be awarded to MAPS Air Museum, North Canton, Ohio, to develop educational displays, upkeep of current displays, library expansion, historical research and operation expenses, $100,000 shall be awarded to Mauch Chunk Historical Society of Carbon County, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, $500,000 shall be awarded to Memphis Zoo, Memphis, Tennessee, to develop exhibits and support students programs, $400,000 shall be awarded to Miami Museum of Science & Space Transit Planetarium, Miami, Florida, for exhibits, outreach, and education programs, $200,000 shall be awarded to Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie, New York, for a Comprehensive Technology Enrichment Program to enhance exhibits, $40,000 shall be awarded to Milford Area Historical Society, Milford, Ohio, for the Promont House Museum, $450,000 shall be awarded to Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology, Syracuse, New York, $1,540,000 shall be awarded to Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri, for the establishment and maintenance of an archive for materials relating to the Congressional career of the Honorable Richard A. Gephardt, $260,000 shall be awarded to Mount Vernon Public Library, Mount Vernon, New York for operations and upgrades, $100,000 shall be awarded to Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California for equipment, $500,000 shall be awarded to Museum of Appalachia, Norris, Tennessee, to preserve and restore the collection of Appalachian pioneer artifacts, $250,000 shall be awarded to Museum of Aviation Foundation, Warner Robin, Georgia, $200,000 shall be awarded to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, for the development of exhibitions and programs, $600,000 shall be awarded to Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, for the American Fighter Aces Archive and Collection, $250,000 shall be awarded to Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, for the Science in Your World Program, $500,000 shall be awarded to Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, for community outreach, exhibit design and development, and educational programs, $75,000 shall be awarded to 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, $100,000 shall 118 STAT. 3157 be awarded to National City Public Library, National City, California, for collections and technology, $950,000 shall be awarded to National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, to improve the education, outreach, and exhibition of the museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to develop a fully interactive learning center linked to their web site that will extend the reach of the Museum, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., $750,000 shall be awarded to National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C., for the Farnsworth House Museum in Plano, Illinois, $2,100,000 shall be awarded to Native American Cultural Center and Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, $500,000 shall be awarded to New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, for the Virtual Herbarium Project, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to New York Hall of Science to develop, expand, and display science-related materials, $90,000 shall be awarded to North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, for exhibits and education programs, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Omaha Performing Arts Center in Nebraska for telecommunications systems, $100,000 shall be awarded to Pennsylvania Hunting & Fishing Museum, Warren, Pennsylvania, to develop curriculum for conservation education, $200,000 shall be awarded to Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to expand arts and after-school programs for at-risk children, $950,000 shall be awarded to Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to develop educational programs focusing on hands-on learning experiences, $320,000 shall be awarded to Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, to enhance library collections and outreach in the area of Middle Eastern and Judaic Studies, $50,000 shall be awarded to Putnam County Library, Cookeville, Tennessee, to improve exhibits and purchase technology upgrades, $100,000 shall be awarded to Reading Company Technical and Historical Society, Inc., Reading, Pennsylvania, to expand interpretive activities, $550,000 shall be awarded to Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, New York, for expansion of exhibitions, $350,000 shall be awarded to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, for music education programs, $200,000 shall be awarded to Saint Louis County Economic Council, Saint Louis, Missouri, for Jefferson Barracks, $100,000 shall be awarded to Sam Davis Memorial Association, Smyrna, Tennessee, for interpretive exhibits and education programs for the Sam Davis Home, $350,000 shall be awarded to San Bernardino County, San Bernardino, California, for the San Bernardino County Museum, $300,000 shall be awarded to Save the Speaker’s House, Inc., Trappe, Pennsylvania, $315,000 shall be awarded to Sci-Quest, The North Alabama Science Center, Huntsville, Alabama, for science and mathematics education programs, $175,000 shall be awarded to Serra Cooperative Library System, San Diego, California, $100,000 shall be awarded to 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, $50,000 shall be awarded to Smithtown Library, Smithtown, New York, for equipment and technology for its Virtual Worldwide Neighborhood Website Project, $75,000 shall be awarded to Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for education and outreach programs, $125,000 shall 118 STAT. 3158 be awarded to Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, for digitization of Archives and Rare-book Collections at the Meyer Library, $250,000 shall be awarded to Stark County Park District, Canton, Ohio, for exhibits, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to State Historical Society of Iowa in Des Moines, Iowa, for the development of exhibits for the World Food Prize, $250,000 shall be awarded to Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, $600,000 shall be awarded to Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia, $250,000 shall be awarded to University of Alaska Fairbanks for the continuation of the Alaska Digital Archives project, $250,000 shall be awarded to University of Vermont of Burlington, Vermont, for a digitization project for the preservation of Vermont cultural heritage materials, $500,000 shall be awarded to Vietnam Archives Center at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, for technology infrastructure, $200,000 shall be awarded to Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, Virginia, for science education, $135,000 shall be awarded to Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, Iowa, for the Youth Pavillion to provide educational programs and exhibit design and development, $400,000 shall be awarded to Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, $25,000 shall be awarded to William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum, Canton, Ohio, $50,000 shall be awarded to Williamsburg County Library, Kingstree, South Carolina, for books, library materials and computers, $250,000 shall be awarded to Winchester Conservation Museum, Edgefield, South Carolina, $50,000 shall be awarded to Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin, to catalog and microfilm military base papers, $100,000 shall be awarded to Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, for the Water Works project, $75,000 shall be awarded to Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for technology upgrades and education and outreach programs, $500,000 shall be awarded to Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia, $100,000 shall be awarded to World War II Victory Memorial Museum, Auburn, Indiana, and $75,000 shall be awarded to Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, California, to develop and expand the youTHink education program.