Center for Information Literacy to be founded

Simmons University, USA, has received a $250,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish the Center for Information Literacy (CIL). Dr. Laura Saunders will be the CIL’s director and CIL is a collaboration between Simmons’ School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), The Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Simmons University Library.
"The CIL will focus on cultivating competencies related to locating, accessing, evaluating, and using information. " "The CIL’s agenda will include curriculum-building efforts, faculty professional development, and student-driven programming."
More information at https://www.simmons.edu/news/simmons-receives-mellon-grant-information-literacy