MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize
Forecasted
MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize recognizes faculty and academic librarians for jointly developed coursework that integrates disciplinary learning with information literacy.
Funder: Modern Language Association
Due Dates (Anticipated): July 2027 (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to two annual prizes of $500 each, shared equally between the course instructor and librarian
Summary: Recognizes collaboratively developed coursework integrating disciplinary learning with information literacy in literature, language, and related disciplines.
Key Information: Winning course materials must be deposited openly and made available for reuse under a Creative Commons license.
Description
The Modern Language Association, with support from EBSCO, recognizes coursework developed collaboratively by department faculty members and academic librarians. The prize honors courses that successfully integrate disciplinary objectives with information literacy learning objectives defined through the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Its focus is instruction and practice that connect both areas throughout a course.
The program values effective faculty–librarian partnerships, course designs responsive to students’ differing levels of preparedness, and assessment appropriate to course goals. It also recognizes effective syllabuses and assignments and teaching approaches that can be reused or adapted in other contexts. Prizewinners are honored at the MLA convention, and winning submissions are deposited in Knowledge Commons Works, an open-access humanities repository.
