{"id":1281,"date":"2017-05-15T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/05\/15\/its-a-wrap-2016-national-medal-for-museum-library-service-honorees\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:00:41","slug":"its-a-wrap-2016-national-medal-for-museum-library-service-honorees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/05\/15\/its-a-wrap-2016-national-medal-for-museum-library-service-honorees\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Wrap: 2016 National Medal for Museum & Library Service Honorees"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0February 2016, we completed our trip to the Madison Public Library, \u00a0the\u00a0final trip in a series of adventures that took us from Santa Ana, California to Exeter, Rhode Island, and many places in between as we\u00a0preserved the stories of the ten institutions awarded the Institute of Museum and Library Service’s 2016 National Medal. We are honored to share some of these recordings\u00a0below.<\/p>\n

We’ve been preserving the stories of all National Medal for Museum and Library Service winners for the past eight years and are\u00a0thrilled to announce we\u2019ll soon be on the road recording 2017’s honorees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mid-America Science Museum (Hot Springs, Arkansas)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

At the Mid-America Science Museum, participants ranged from patrons to mentors, congressmen, and volunteers, and reflected the can-do spirit of the community as well as its diversity. In this story, Niles Ellis, who is a designer for the museum, talks with his colleague Lori Arnold about how he impressed the senior leadership of the museum with his ingenuity and ability to make things work on a shoestring budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could turn an area of the museum into a primordial existence\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
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