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When one door closes another one opens. Our work continues. Please read on. The Library Media Project, which began in 1988, closed our Sunnyside Avenue office on the last day of April 2007. For the past 19 years, beginning in 1988 as the MacArthur Foundation Library Video Project, we have had the honor of assisting U.S. librarians with their media collection development on a wide range of important subjects. We are continuing to work on securing funding for an urgently needed educational project on Our Environment and the Climate Crisis. Our new office location can be found on our contact page. If you have any questions, please email us at info@librarymedia.org Our mission is to foster the public discourse that is central to our American democracy one library at a time. Thomas Jefferson observed, "Information is the currency of democracy". It is an honor to contribute to these thousands of "information banks" - our country's libraries found in communities, big and small and in between, in each of the 50 states. It was our good fortune to work with thousands of dedicated librarians who vigilantly keep the doors to free, accessible information available for so many millions in our country.Their life's work is a central to the very heart of our democracy: informed public debate. We have been honored to have worked with so many remarkable, innovative and thoughtful librarians. They are, and always will be, our heroes. With luck, and funding from an angel or two, we'll be able to continue our work to foster the critically important informed public discourse throughout America.

 

Our Name Has Changed
But Not Our Mission

 

We believe in the mutual contributions of our cooperative efforts, and that there is much more we can do to increase the access to top quality documentary videos. Therefore, we will continue to work with curated media collections, our national public library consortiums, and our award-winning website. Although the name has changed from the MacArthur Foundation Library Video Project to the Library Media Project, the staff, location, and phone numbers of our project have remained the same.We look forward to the new opportunities that we now have, and as we move through these times of transition, our future will be guided by the central mission and vision of our project: our partnerships with public libraries and Independent media.Needless to say, the next few years will be critical and challenging ones for the Library Media Project. As you know, there are fewer and fewer sources for non-profit organizations, at the same time that there are increasing needs in communities across the country. If you could send us an e-mail ,or letter of support, we could then show funders that our information has been a valuable resource to you and you endorse the continuation of our efforts . This will also demonstrate your invaluable and crucial support of our project. Thank you.
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macarthur classics on DVD | cinema classics on DVD | visual arts videos
issues of aging videos | health videos | previous collections
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