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ACM Information Literacy Project Overview of the project |
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The topic of information literacy is one that appeals to many groups across the ACM, including students, faculty, librarians, information technology specialists, academic deans and chief financial officers. This should not be surprising given the explosive growth of electronic information available on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Indeed, with the tendency of undergraduate students to use electronic information as the research source of choice (albeit with vastly different degrees of sophistication), it is incumbent on our consortium to address issues arising from its existence in our lives. The ACM office worked with the academic deans to develop a series of faculty workshops to promote information literacy across the ACM campuses. The effort was been supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which was awarded to ACM in December 2000. Specifically, the grant was designed to help faculty members in certain disciplines modify some of their assignments so that they can improve upper-level students’ critical use of electronic information. Faculty members from the ACM campuses will have the opportunity to exchange existing assignments, collaborate on designing other assignments, and share ideas and available resources. Librarians and instructional technologists at the ACM colleges will help the faculty members find and use those resources. In conjunction with that project, the librarians and instructional technologists will network to share resources and ideas. The first major event funded by the grant was a conference on Information Literacy and the Liberal Arts held in spring 2001. A variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary workshops and ongoing activities were developed after that. |
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