College of Information and library grants

The Institute of Museum and Library Services' Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program awarded the UNT Libraries and the College of Information two grants totaling more than $850,000. One will help fund creation of graduate courses in digital curation and data management for an academic certificate and support three graduate students to work on the project led by William E. Moen, associate dean for research in the College of Information. A second grant, supplemented by funds from the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Sloan Foundation, will support a project led by Martin Halbert, dean of the UNT Libraries, to investigate how the library and information sciences profession can manage the growing amount of scholarly research and data in the digital format.

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