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Project
grants
Following
their meeting in October 2003,
ACM librarians worked with ACM staff to develop a Request For Proposals
for grants to support projects in information literacy. Proposals
were to focus on how students, faculty, and staff discover, evaluate,
or use information to enhance liberal education.
Proposals were submitted and reviewed by a small committee. Eight
projects were selected for funding. They were:
- Beloit
College: A proposal to explore innovative approaches for integrating
information literacy services.
- Carleton
College: A proposal to conduct a one-day discussion session
among librarians, faculty, and instructional technology staff
on information literacy and its place at Carleton College.
- Colorado
College and Cornell College: A joint proposal entitled
Focusing on Assignments in which each campus will develop a guide
to promote faculty-generated research assignments that embed information
literacy assignments.
- Cornell
College: A proposal entitled Mapping the Information Literacy
Curriculum in which the participants will develop a relational
database as a vehicle for locating where in the curriculum particular
information literacy standards are taught.
- Macalester
College: A proposal entitled Entering the Community of Inquiry
in which participants will conduct an information fluency workshop
for faculty leading first year seminars. The workshop will involve
a collaboration among faculty, the Macalester Academic Excellence
(MAX) Center, and college librarians.
- Monmouth
College: Two related proposals to conduct an information literacy
survey for faculty consistent with ACRL standards, and conduct
a one-day workshop, Integrating Information Literacy in Departmental
Majors.
- Ripon
College: A proposal to develop and conduct an information
literacy workshop in partnership between the Lane Library staff
and the staff of Communication Plus, Ripon's campus development
center for written communication, oral communication, problem
solving, and critical thinking.
- St.
Olaf College: A proposal for stipends to enable two faculty
members to develop a comprehensive laboratory exercise to supplement
the information literacy component of Biology 125. The laboratory
experience will enable students to apply their information literacy
skills to the realms of research, publishing, and molecular modeling.
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