Alison J. Head, a research scientist in the Information School, has been awarded a joint fellowship for next year at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard and the Harvard Libraries Innovation Laboratory. She is one of 23 awardees from an international pool of several hundred applicants.

Berkman fellows have included Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; John Perry Barlow, founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation; and Eszter Hargittai, who heads the Web Use Project at Northwestern University.

Head will research what happens to the information strategies of today's college students once they graduate. She will also work with a small group of software developers in Harvard Law School to make libraries more valuable to users.

Head co-directs Project Information Literacy with Dean Emeritus and Professor Michael Eisenberg in the Information School. As an on-going national study, the project investigates how young adults gather research information in the digital age.