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C&RL News July/August 2011  436

Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, 
C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; 
e-mail: agalloway@ala.org.

Emory University Libraries has been awarded 
a two-year grant of $695,000 by the Andrew W. 
Mellon Foundation to establish a collaborative 
digital humanities center. The grant will provide 
startup funds for the Digital Scholarship Com-
mons (DiSC) in the Robert W. Woodruff Library. 
The proposal plan calls for DiSC to establish a site 
for transdisciplinary collaboration, drawing faculty 
members and graduate students into new collab-
orative working relationships with librarians, and 
launching four large-scale and four smaller-scale 
seed projects that will draw on the library’s col-
lections and services in new ways. While there 
are other digital scholarship centers across the 
country, most use a vertical approach, gathering 
scholars working within the same subject such as 
history or English. DiSC is described as a place 
where scholars can collaborate with technologists 
to build a digital scholarship project, analyze data, 
or explore new ways to combine humanities-
based research with information technology. 

Council on Library and Information Re-
sources (CLIR) has been awarded $117,567 by 
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for research on 
how to build capacity for data curation within 
disciplines. The project will be managed by 
CLIRs Digital Library Federation (DLF). The 
project will consist of three interrelated activi-
ties. The first will be an environmental scan of 
professional development needs and of educa-
tion and training opportunities for digital cura-
tion in the academy. The second will be an 
anthropological study of five sites where digi-
tal curation activities are under way. The third 
will be a report that analyzes the results of the 
two research efforts and includes a proposal, 
informed by the findings, for amending the 
curriculum for CLIRs Postdoctoral Fellowship 
in Academic Libraries program. 

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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of trends in the middle grades. School Librar-
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Crouse, W. F., & Kasbohm, K. E. (2004). 
Information literacy in teacher education: A 
collaborative model. Educational Forum, 
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Grafstein, A. (2002). A discipline-based 
approach to information literacy. The Journal 
of Academic Librarianship, 28, 197–204.

Johnson, C. M., & O’English, L. (2004). 
Information literacy in pre-service teacher 
education: An annotated bibliography. Be-
havioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 22(1), 
129–139.

Libutti, P. O., & Gratch, B. (Eds.) (1995). 
Teaching information retrieval and evalua-
tion skills to education students and practi-
tioners: A casebook of applications. Chicago: 
ACRL.

Rockman, I. F. (2003). Integrating informa-
tion literacy into the learning outcomes of 
academic disciplines: A critical 21st-century 
issue. College & Research Libraries News, 64, 
612–615.

Shinew, D. M., & Walter, S. (Eds.) (2003). 
Information literacy instruction for educa-
tors: Professional knowledge for an informa-
tion age. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth 
Information Press.

Witt, S. W., & Dickinson, J. B. (2004). 
Teaching teachers to teach: Collaborating 
with a university education department to 
teach skills in information literacy pedagogy. 
Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 22(1), 
75–95. 

Note
1. The EBSS Connecting the Standards 

Web site is currently being transferred to 
another format. 

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