January/February 2015
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V O LU M E LV I N U M B E R 1
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Taking the Smithsonian to the World By Steve Fox
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Intercultural Education for 21st Century America By Liz Jackson and Wesley Teter
Libraries Reinvent Themselves as Makerspaces By Steve Fox
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East Meets Wild West By Carrie Loewenthal Massey
Transmedia Storytelling By Candice Yacono
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ReACTing to a Cause By Anne Walls
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Art as Ambassador By Michael Gallant
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Q&A With Daniel Markey By Giriraj Agarwal
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Art
Courtesy Art in Embassies
To Lure Young Readers, Nonfiction Writers Sanitize and Simplify By Alexandra Alter
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Publisher Walter T. Douglas
Editor in Chief David Mees
Editor Deepanjali Kakati Associate Editor Suparna Mukherji Hindi Editor Giriraj Agarwal Urdu Editor Syed Sulaiman Akhtar Copy Editors Raktima Bose, Shah Md. Tahsin Usmani Editorial Asssistant Yugesh Mathur
Art Director Hemant Bhatnagar Deputy Art Directors Qasim Raza, Shah Faisal Khan Production/Circulation Manager Alok Kaushik Printing Assistantt Manish Gandhi Web Manager Chetna Khera
18 Front cover: Illustration by Hemant Bhatnagar, photographs © Getty Images, courtesy DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library
Research Services Bureau of International Information Programs, The American Library
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Beyond Rankings and Prestige By Don Martin and Wesley Teter
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Hiking to Paradise By Michael Gallant
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Reading South Asia By Paromita Pain
36 Travel
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KARL JOHNSON/Courtesy Flickr
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Nonfiction
Smithsonian
Makerspaces
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