Winner of the Highsmith Library Innovation Award - 2006

Job Announcement
Cornerstones of Science at Curtis Memorial Library is seeking an Administrative Associate.

Program Alert Go to Programs Page to see all programs

Cornerstones of Science program participant and volunteer,
Lauren Grotton, wins a
Mainely Character Scholarship from Time Warner Cable

 

READ, WRITE & WIN Update
2008 Winners have been notified.

Thank you & kudos to all who participated.
We hope you will read, write & win again next year!

COS Welcomes New Maine Library Partners

Casco Public Library
D.A. Hurd Library, N. Berwick
Hartland Public Library
Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth
Patten Free Library, Bath
Pittsfield Public Library
Portland Public Library
Prince Memorial Library, Cumberland
Raymond Village Library
Rockland Public Library
Skidompha Library, Damariscotta
Waterville Public Library
Windham Public Library
York Public Library

Cornerstones of Science (COS) received a major donation of $300,000 from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. in support of the national expansion of its science literacy programs. COS connects children, teens and adults to science and technology through superb books, programs, and opportunities for citizen science. It originates from Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine.

The donation was granted through the Thermo Fisher Foundation for Science, part of the company’s philanthropy in support of science and science education. Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. The company provides analyticalinstruments and services to customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. To learn more about Thermo Fisher Scientific and its charitable organization, visit their website, www.thermofisher.com.

The national initiative began in 2006 with a pilot partnership of five libraries from across the nation who share the COS vision and serve as intellectual centers of their towns. COS partner libraries add Cornerstones designated books to their collections, offer science programs developed by COS, bring scientists and science authors into their libraries for presentations, collaborate to develop newprograms that can be used by all the libraries in the partnership, and connect their patrons to the booklists and science resources on the COS website.

Cornerstones, though only seven years old this autumn, has attained both programmatic success and national recognition, winning the coveted Highsmith Library Innovation Award in 2006. The future, through the generosity of Thermo Fisher Scientific, promises even more innovation and collaboration.

Library Partners added in 2006
George & Laura Brown Library, NC
Lewiston Public Library, ME
Little Elm Public Library, TX
Tempe Public Library, AZ
Wareham Free Library, MA

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