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The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and The College of Arts & Sciences are pleased to announce an instructional development grant of $1500 for the design or revision of a course on the IU Bloomington campus to incorporate information fluency into undergraduate and graduate curricula. The purpose of the grant is to offer faculty the opportunity to create and reenergize courses that teach students how to do scholarly research. These courses will give students practice in creating projects, papers, or lab reports that incorporate, build upon, and challenge a variety of sources with the end goal of presenting original ideas.

Proposals are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 academic year (the deadline is Friday, March 4^th, 2011). Full-time members of the faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences (including permanent lecturers) are eligible. Although courses that have a strong writing component are well-suited to teaching the research process, information fluency can be appropriately taught through coursework in any discipline and at any level. Librarians will work closely with faculty members to ascertain what kinds of informational fluency and research skills students at different points in their academic careers and from various majors need to have.  One of the goals of these courses is to build upon work that students have previously done and help them to prepare for the challenges that they will face in the rest of their time at IU.

For more information visit: www.libraries.iub.edu/grants.