Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

It’s a big day! The IMA was just named one of the 10 recipients of the 2009 National Medal for Museum and Library Services, the nation’s highest honor for museums and libraries. Indiana Senator Richard Lugar nominated the Museum about which he said, “The IMA provides the Indianapolis community with valuable arts programming, education and many special exhibitions through the exploration of art, design, and the natural environment. It is truly a treasure in Indianapolis and very deserving of this prestigious honor.”

The annual award presented by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) since 1994, recognizes institutions for outstanding social, educational, environmental, or economic contributions to their communities. According to IMLS Director Anne-Imelda M. Radice, the IMA was selected for the award based on the Museum’s “exemplary programs (that) respond to community challenges, positively impact people’s lives, and serve as models for the nation’s museums.”

National Medal for Museum and Library Service

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No, sorry… we’re not building a time machine. But, last week at the monthly All-Staff meeting, IMA employees were treated to a sneak peek of a monitoring project that the MIS department has in the works. It’s similar to what I wrote about in an earlier post, but on a bigger scale (by the way, that Eco-button went glitchy on me). In the IMA machine room, we have rack-mounted servers that host a variety of applications used by staff at the museum. There’s also a decent 16 terabytes (1TB = 1024GB) of disk storage in there.

One of the racks in our machine room

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