The Provost’s Fellowship in Information Science application is now open until November 21!
CU Libraries and the Graduate Teacher Program (GTP) invites graduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences, College of Engineering & Applied Science, College of Media, Communication and Information, College of Music and School of Education to apply for the Provost's Fellowship in Information Science at University Libraries.
The Fellowship provides outstanding CU Boulder graduate students the opportunity to learn about the Libraries. Fellows will work with library faculty to develop a project, and are awarded $3,000 for 150 hours of participation in the program. The Fellowship must begin in spring semester, but project work can continue into the summer.
Applicants are welcome to submit original project ideas or develop a project based on the ideas submitted by librarians. Librarians and fellows will work together to shape the projects to fit the Libraries’ and fellows’ interests and needs. Below are the librarians’ proposed projects:
- Comprising bibliographies of women in philosophy and reviewing the Libraries’ collection.
- Developing a curriculum and assembling Shakespeare traveling K-12 school kits.
- Working with Government Information, Earth Sciences & Maps Library and Preservation to preserve and locate U.S. government maps.
- Working with the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship’s (CRDDS) to create asynchronous learning opportunities, like instructional video tutorials or video recordings of their workshops.
- Developing and leading assessment of the Norlin Commons’ pilot Multimedia Equipment Lending Library (MELL), and teaching librarians how to use the equipment.
- Assisting Metadata Services to catalog the Historical Educational Tests Collection by learning cataloging standards and tools.
The application closes November 21, 2018.
For more information about these projects, the Fellowship and how to apply, visit the Libraries’ Provost’s Fellows page.