Grants

Grants that focus on Information Literacy Competency

LSTA Grant

The Rochester Regional Library Council received an LSTA grant “to raise awareness of the importance of Information Literacy in the community. One product of this grant is a series of PowerPoint presentations that can be used to illustrate a discussion of information literacy concepts. Project Director Jennifer Quigley has compiled an excellent resource for both K-12 and academic librarians.

LSTA funding, assisted by the State of Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners funded the University of Massachusetts Amherst Library's instructional website: Teaching Information Literacy on the Web.

The Pacific Bell Grant

The Pacific Bell / UCLA Initiative for 21st Century Literacies is a two year project funded by a $1 million gift from Pacific Bell to UCLA’sGraduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS). This project will evaluate the meaning of information literacy by focusing on educating the end user of information, improving the information system, addressing policy issues.

Mellon Foundation

AT&T

The Five College of Ohio have had success in funding their programs. These grants allowed the Five Colleges to develop an information literacy tutorial and strengthen their faculty/librarian collaborations.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Supported a grant at Brandeis University entitled Strengthening Interdisciplinary Connections in the Brandeis General Education Program. This large grant allowed librarians, faculty, computing professionals, and consultants, to develop components in the General Education Program that focused on improving student competency in critically evaluating information sources.

Hewlett also gave funding for Reinventing the Core Curriculum, a project at Montana State University Bozeman to restructure general education to include information literacy.

The Institute for Museum and Library Services

University of South Florida (Tampa Campus Library) - Tampa, FL 2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training. This two-year project will employ 12 Graduate Assistants enrolled in the School of Library and Information Science to develop and teach information literacy to 300 freshman enrolled in USF’s Learning Communities Program.

Inter-American University of Puerto Rico - Mercedita, PR 2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration. This two-year collaborative project between Ponce Historical Archives (PHA), the Ponce Museum of History (PMH) and the Inter American University of Puerto Rico will integrate their historical resources by digitizing materials, providing Internet access and training for teachers and other personnel. The training will use information technology and the integration of primary sources into the history curriculum as a strategy for developing information literacy in students.

University of Rhode Island - Kingston, RI 2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training. This two-year project will recruit six Fellows from diverse backgrounds, support them in a program of study to complete the master’s degree at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and involve them in developing programs to prepare librarians to work with diverse populations and to provide culturally sensitive information literacy instruction.

Association of College and Research Libraries - Chicago, IL 2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training. This two year project will train academic librarians to work with faculty to design, implement, and evaluate tools for assessing student learning outcomes resulting from information literacy courses.

Ameritech

A Partnership Award grant came to Xavier University to develop an interactive tutorial using the Standards for Information Literacy Competency for Higher Education to use primarily with Nursing students.