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Trinity College, together with Connecticut College and Wesleyan University—whose libraries share resources under an arrangement called the CTW Consortium, is the recipient of a $660,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support collaborative programs in information literacy. This grant will extend and enhance the information literacy initiatives already under way at Trinity. 

The grant was co-written by library and academic computing staff of the CTW Consortium. Over the next three years, library and computing staff members at each institution will work with academic departments and programs to develop tools and practices for information literacy instruction. Members of the consortium will meet regularly to evaluate methods and share ideas.  

In November 2002, Trinity co-hosted an information literacy workshop for about 100 participants, including 20 faculty members from each institution. As the inaugural event of the CTW Mellon Project for Information Literacy, the workshop provided opportunities for faculty members, administrators, and staff members to discuss the concepts of information literacy and their application in classroom teaching. The initiative builds on the successful collaboration among consortium members over the last 15 years. The Mellon Foundation had also previously awarded the consortium a grant for the CTW Mellon Project for Language Learning and Technology.

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