The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration awarded Texas State University a $344,015 Project Grant under the Veterans Legacy Grants Program (CFDA 64.204) on June 6, 2024. The grant will fund the university's project titled "Texas Veterans Legacy for Tomorrow," which will leverage storytelling, social work methodologies, educational pedagogy, and primary source materials to create publicly accessible resources for university professors, high school teachers, and...
The University of North Texas Department of Information Science received a $249,979 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313). The grant will fund the development and deployment of an online, immersive health sciences librarianship fellowship training program. This program aims to build the competencies of Library and Information Science (LIS) graduate students and early career librarians in...
The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to Loyola Marymount University (LMU) under the Veterans Legacy Grants Program (CFDA 64.204). The grant, awarded on June 6, 2024, will fund the "LMU Digital Veterans Legacy Project" to research and document the lives of veterans interred in the Los Angeles National Cemetery. Working closely with local high schools, community groups, and LMU's Air Force ROTC detachment, the project will...
The Project Grant award of $369,400 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) will support Old Dominion University Research Foundation (ODURF) and Texas Woman's University in developing a model of information literacy (IL) instruction. The project will investigate how library and information science (LIS) faculty and secondary school library practitioners currently address psychosocial, emotional, and cultural...
This Project Grant award, valued at $374,194, was provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313). The grant supports a multi-phase research project led by Dr. Jenna Spiering at the University of South Carolina (USC) to investigate mentorship programs for new school librarians in the early stages of their careers. The project aims to explore how a formal, structured mentoring network that provides individualized,...
Under a USD 366,325 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.313 - Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program), Dr. Kevin J. Mallary at Old Dominion University Research Foundation will conduct multiple case studies at five academic institutions. Through interviews with academic librarians, disability services coordinators, and deaf/hard of hearing (D/HH) students, the project will elicit insights on accessible library services for D/HH patrons. The findings...
The Missouri Library Association, with support from several state library associations and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, will receive a $249,950 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313). The grant will fund the implementation of the "You Belong Scholar Program" to retain and develop existing library workers from historically underrepresented groups. The program will include...
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) was awarded a $282,201 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313). The grant will fund a 2-year research project led by Dr. Latesha Velez investigating the inclusion and representation of Hispanic/Latine people in English-language library and information science (LIS) research publications. The project will collect quantitative and qualitative...
The University of South Florida (USF) was awarded a $149,957 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) to address the knowledge gap that many school librarians report in working with students with autism. The project, which will be conducted in collaboration with Old Dominion University, aims to gather practicing school librarians nationwide to learn from autism experts. Key project...
This $149,610 Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program will enable the University of Texas at Austin to explore the current and potential role of libraries as mental health resources for emerging adults aged 18-29 years. The project will investigate emerging adults' needs, practices, and perceptions around seeking help for mental health concerns, as well as librarians' perspectives on...