Dear Colleagues,
This is a call for abstracts for a symposium on Chemical Information Literacy: Innovation, Collaboration, and Assessment which will take place at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18-22, 2018.
We welcome diverse perspectives from chemistry educators, librarians, information specialists, and students to share their research and stories, especially collaborative effort across campus.
Symposium title: Chemical Information Literacy: Innovation, Collaboration, and Assessment
Symposium abstract:
CINF and CHED invite chemistry librarians and instructors to share how they are successfully supporting the development of chemical information literacy for the next generation of chemists, from one-shot assignments to deeper integration into entire courses and curricula. We welcome topics such as:
- Assessing the effectiveness of chemical information literacy instruction.
- Using best practices for instructional design.
- Mapping information literacy through the curriculum.
- Integrating popular and emerging instructional technologies into the curriculum.
- Building new collaborations between librarians and instructors.
- Integrating new areas of chemical information (e.g. data information literacy, cheminformatics etc.).
- Exploring interfaces with scholarly communication topics (e.g. research impact, author identity and rights, ethics etc.)
- Creating assignments or activities to meet current standards, including the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, Information Competencies for Chemistry Undergraduates (SLA Chemistry Division/ACS Division of Chemical Information), and ACS Guidelines for Bachelor’s Degree Programs (ACS Committee on Professional Training).
Organizers:
Teri Vogel (tmvogel@ucsd.edu )
Ye Li (yeli@mines.edu )
Ginger Shultz (gshultz@umich.edu )
Charity Lovitt (lovittc@uw.edu )
Submit your abstract to https://callforpapers.acs.org/nola2018 . The submission deadline is October 16, 2017.