Discover Earth at EMPL​
Discover Earth: A Century of Change, a traveling exhibition for libraries, is part of the STAR Library Education Network (STAR_Net) led by the National Center for Interactive Learning at the Space Science Institute. Exhibit partners include the American Library Association, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, and the National Girls Collaborative Project. Discover Earth is supported through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
​Discover Earth will tour from January 2012 to December 2013, visiting each of the 10 selected sites for a period of eight weeks. Each site will receive a grant of $1,000 to support public programs related to the exhibition and join a national Community of Practice (CoP), accessible at http://community.discoverexhibits.org. For more information about Discover Earth, STAR_Net and the CoP, visit www.ala.org/discoverearth.​
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The Discover Earth exhibition will focus on local earth science topics—such as weather, water cycle and ecosystem changes—as well as a global view of our changing planet. The primary message of the exhibition is that the global environment changes – and is changed by – the local environment of all exhibition hosts’ communities. Interactive, multimedia displays will allow exhibit visitors to interact with digital information in a dynamic way, encouraging new perspectives on our planet.
The libraries selected to host
Discover Earth: A Century of Change
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1. Inglewood Public Library, Inglewood, CA
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​2. Garfield County Public Library, Rifle, CO
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3. West Florida Public Library System, Pensacola, FL
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4. St. Charles Parish Library, Luling, LA
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5. Little Priest Tribal College, Winnebago, NE
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6. East Meadow Public Library, East Meadow, NY.
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7. Ephrata Public Library, Ephrata, PA
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8. TLL Temple Memorial Library, Diboll, TX
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9. Central Rappahannock Regional Library, VA.
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10. Laramie County Library System, Cheyenne, WY
About Discover Earth​​
The East Meadow Public Library is one off only ten libraries in the United States to be awarded the traveling exhibition Discover Earth:
A Century of Change.
Our opening Day is
Sunday, November 25.
Discover Earth is part of the STAR Library Education Network ((STAR_Nett)) led by the National Center for Interactive Learning
at the Space Science Institute. Exhibit partners include the American Library Association,, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, and the National Girls Collaborative Project.
Discover Earth is made possible through the support of the National Science Foundation. The exhibition and its educational support materials and outreach opportunities are part of the STAR
(Science-Technology Activities and Resources) Library Education Network (STAR_Net), a hands-on learning program for libraries and their communities.