It's now time to give an update on my activities over the past few weeks. What a busy time it has been!
I have been awarded a grant from the Nova Scotia Provincial Archival Development Program. This grant allows me to continue my practical research and development of archival information literacy sessions. The funding is being used to re-hire the Education student, Amber, from the last project and buy a few helpful tools. The student will be working on the project in a part-time capacity between September and March.
Under the PADP grant, we will be targeting specific courses and working with selected faculty to develop learning tool sets that will provide a practical, hands-on approach to using primary sources. We will build on the findings of our research from the Winter 2012 term. The idea is to create eight sessions and learning packages with assignments that can be offered again and again over the next few years. This will be very beneificial to me as well and reduce the amount of time that I spend designing and re-designing sessions each year.
For the grant application, we selected eight courses within the disciplines of History, Education, and Nutrition. Four professors teaching these eight courses indicated their interest in working with us. Approximately 355 students could be impacted by these new sessions.
Wait until you see what we have been up to since the project started.
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