Library & Technology Services program helps faculty to develop student information literacy

Library & Technology Services has established a new grant program to support faculty collaboration with librarians to increase student information literacy in meaningful ways.

In its inaugural year, LTS has awarded five grants. The LTS Information Literacy Grants will provide $2,000 to each recipient to promote faculty engagement during the summer to build meaningful information literacy education into the syllabi of courses across the curriculum.  This year’s winners are:



Faculty: Daniel Breen

Librarian: Aimee Slater

Class: LGLS 138b Science on Trial

Faculty: Wendy Cadge

Librarian: Gina Bastone

Class: Sociology 203b Field Methods

Faculty: Abby Cooper and Karen Hansen

Librarian: Laura Hibbler

Class: History/Sociology 216a Migration, Displacement, And Dispossession In North American History



Faculty: Colleen Hitchcock

Librarian: Melanie Radik

Class: Biology 23a Ecology and Biology 17a: Conservation Biology



Faculty: Winston Bowman

Librarian: Anne Woodrum

Class: History Lab Focused: Civil Rights and Social Movements

The Library Advisory Committee, a group that includes Brandeis faculty, students and staff, were asked to recommend only five of the ten outstanding applications we received.

The LTS Information Literacy Grants, modeled after a similar program at Lafayette College Library, are aimed at providing summer funding to support faculty collaboration with librarians to increase student information literacy in meaningful ways.

John Unsworth, vice provost, university librarian and chief information officer, said the award recipients will work with librarians to create curricular opportunities for increasing information literacy among students. Faculty will also participate in a forum with the Center for Teaching and Learning to discuss their experiences incorporating information literacy into their teaching.



“Congratulations to all award recipients in the first of what will be an annual opportunity at Brandeis,” said Unsworth. “Although we could not fund every proposal this year, we are always enthusiastic to collaborate with our faculty in teaching or research.”