Purdue University (Clarence Maybee, Michael Flierl), University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Catherine Fraser Riehle), and University of Arizona (Maribeth Slebodnik) are engaged in a three-year IMLS-funded project to enable academic library professionals to become curriculum developers.

Academic libraries have promoted information literacy on university campuses but have struggled to integrate it widely into curricula. In this project, academic library professionals will be trained in an informed learning design model that underscores the role that information plays in the learning process, and then apply the model with disciplinary instructors to create assignments in which students learn to use information while learning disciplinary content.

The results of the project will be disseminated to the library and information science and broader educational community, providing a model that is nationally replicable for library professionals to work with instructors to further student learning and information literacy.