Major Endeavors Grants Awarded

Furman University, Rollins College, Southwestern University, and Millsaps
Journal of Information Fluency
Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen, Furman University, Bryan Alexander, Consultant, Center for Educational Technology, Tom Lairson, Rollins College, Bob Paver, Southwestern University, Bob Shive, Millsaps College

Additional Recommendations from the IF Committee

Major Endeavors Planning Grant Awarded

Washington and Lee University
The Digital South: A Spatial Data Library
John Blackburn, Mark Rush, Hugh Blackmer, Skip Williams, Washington and Lee University

Progress Report
Final Report

We believe that new technology-driven research methods must be combined with an expansion of traditional problem-solving methods. Only then will we be adequately preparing our students for solving problems by means of current and emerging computational processes and technologies. Further, we believe that both faculty and students must be integrally involved in defining, refining, and disseminating these new problem-solving methods and techniques. Unfortunately, faculty (and consequently students) do not seem to have embraced the information fluency concept enthusiastically as of yet. We believe this is largely a result of faculty failing to understand what information fluency means, the importance of the concept, and what it represents as a teaching opportunity and challenge.

To address these issues, the focus of this planning grant is to organize and plan the implementation of a project to create and manage an ACS Online Journal for Digital and Information Fluency. The primary purpose of this online journal will be to encourage and enable faculty and students, as well as library and information technology staff, to engage meaningfully in the evolving understanding and exploration of the concept of information fluency and what it means for the educated citizen of the 21st century.

On January 2006, the online journal Transformations moved under the Administration of NITLE. The new website is http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/resources/transformations.

Projects funded for round 1
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Projects funded for MEPG