Winner of the Highsmith Library Innovation Award - 2006

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A Fresh New Look is Coming
to this Webpage!

Soon you’ll notice a fresh new look and book search capabilities. You'll be able to search the book lists by title, author, topic, or suggested reader age. The site will be divided into three portals: for children, teens, and adults. There will be games, a monthly downloadable computer desktop calendar, and links to our national partners. Visitors will also be able to suggest a new COS nominee and submit their comments or book review on-line. And, you’ll still be able to find the websites of the month, science news—the current event in science, and the COS program calendar. The site will always be a work in progress, but I hope you find this latest version user-friendly and a great resource.

~ Jocelyn Hubbell, Executive Director, Cornerstones of Science

Thermo Fisher Scientific Funds National Expansion

Cornerstones of Science (COS) has 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 andtechnology through superb books, programs, and opportunities for citizen science. It originates from Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine.

“We are thrilled by the support of Thermo Fisher Scientific,” exclaimed Jocelyn Hubbell, Executive Director of Cornerstones of Science, “The donation will fund the addition of 20 libraries to Cornerstones of Science over the next three years, bringing the partnership to 25 libraries nationwide.”

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. The expansion will focus on adding libraries in Maine and New England. A COS National Partner application may be requested from Jocelyn Hubbell at jhubbell@curtislibrary.com. Application deadline has closed for 2007/08.

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.

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