Information Literacy
Thursday 9 December 2025
- Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (DRAFT) - :: The ALA/ACRL/STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology has made available the draft of Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology:Based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, five standards and twenty-six performance... (10:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 11 August 2025
- Use of Blogs in Instruction and Student-Recommended Web Resources Guide(s) - :: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer for Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University Library, is looking for instructional activities which make use of blogs, as well as web resource guide featuring student-recommended resources. In a recent cross-posted e-mail,... (09:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 23 June 2025
- Thoughts on Mastering the Chemical Literature - Dana Roth posted the following on CHMINF-L yesterday, an excerpt from an interview with photochemisty Nick Turro, in which Turro talks about mastering the chemical literature. Turro's comments are timely and encouraging, and speak directly to the importance of information... (12:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 13 May 2025
- Information Literacy in the Sciences Task Force - :: Virginia Baldwin is circulating the following e-mail on a number of listservs. It concerns scitech information literacy, and is worth a look:The proposed Standards for Information Literacy for Science and Technology, developed by the STS Task Force on Information... (12:41 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)