<home> -- <press releases News from Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo Institute of Museum and Library Services Awards National Leadership Grant to University of Guam $401,118 for Information Literacy for Future Island Leader’s Project FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 29, 2009 – Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo today announced that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded the University of Guam a $401,118 National Leadership Grant. The Institute of Museum of Library Services received 165 applications for National Leadership Grants, and the University of Guam is one of only 51 institutions to be awarded a National Leadership Grant. The financial assistance awarded to the University of Guam will go towards their Information Literacy for Future Island Leader’s Project. This project will create a comprehensive system of graduate student support through new bibliographic instruction classes, research services, and digital resources. University of Guam faculty-ranked librarians will teach the graduate bibliographic instruction classes and will manage the project. The project will demonstrate and test methods of advanced academic research assistance and instructional tools that can serve as models for libraries seeking to respond to student research needs. “The financial assistance awarded today from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will help improve the research services, digital resources, and bibliographic instruction classes at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Library,” Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo said today. “I congratulate President Robert Underwood at the University of Guam and Professor Kevin Latham for their efforts in acquiring these funds.” # # # matthew.mateo@mail.house.gov or andrew.tenorio@mail.house.gov |
