MacArthur and IMLS Announce Plans to Create 30 New Learning Labs
at Libraries and Museums Across the Country
With $4 million in funding, MacArthur and IMLS will begin a planning process to launch a national competition to create 30 new learning labs across the country. Inspired by a new teen space at the Chicago Public Library called YOUmedia, the labs will help young people become makers and creators of content, rather than consumers only.
The competition application process, which will include a request for proposals, will be announced in 2011.
IMLS also will help to increase the capacity of museum and library staff to develop programming based on research about how young people learn today. Other partners, including the, C. S. Mott, Grable, John S. and James L. Knight, Mozilla and Pearson foundations, and the Chicago and New York Community Trusts, will provide additional resources to support the new learning labs. MORE INFO