Historypin Wins Knights Foundation Grant to Help Libraries Tell the History of Rural America

“Libraries are really gathering places,” says Jon Voss, the strategic partnerships director of Historypin. The global nonprofit is one of 14 winners of the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge on Libraries. “In popular thought or literature, we think of them as storehouses for materials, but that’s really changed in the past 20 years at least.”

In February, the Knight Foundation challenged people to reimagine libraries to fit the information needs of the 21st century. More than 600 groups submitted proposals, including some that would turn libraries into environmental monitoring hubs and spaces for children to interact with incarcerated parents. The winners will share a $1.6 million grant to realize their visions.

From Historypin Wins Knights Foundation Grant to Help Libraries Tell the History of Rural America – CityLab

June 30, 2016 by Blake Uncategorized 0

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