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George, Sarah; Munshi, Tasnim – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2016
Employers are increasingly requiring a range of "soft" skills from chemistry graduates, including the ability to search for and critically evaluate information. This paper discusses the issues around encouraging chemistry students to engage with information skills and suggests curricular changes which may help to "drip-feed"…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Information Skills, Information Literacy
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Fong, Bonnie L.; Hansen, Darren B. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2012
Librarians have traditionally taught information literacy skills to science graduate students in separate courses dedicated to information-seeking, during assignment(s)-based library sessions for other courses, or through workshops. There is little mention in the professional literature of teaching graduate students within their research groups.…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Graduate Students, Student Research, Group Instruction
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Kolah, Debra; Fosmire, Michael – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2010
Librarians at Rice and Purdue Universities created novel assignments to teach students important information literacy skills. The assignments required the students to use a third-party web site, PageFlakes and NetVibes, respectively, to create a dynamically updated portal to information they needed for their research and class projects. The use of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Assignments, Graduate Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Brown, Barry N. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
Finding some information on most topics is easy. There are abundant sources of information readily available. However, completing a comprehensive literature review on a particular topic is often difficult, laborious, and time intensive; the project requires organization, persistence, and an understanding of the scholarly communication and…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Literature Reviews, Periodicals, Information Technology