Faculty-librarian collaboration at The College of New Jersey has created an innovative Chemistry Seminar Program which enhances the real-world skills of undergraduate chemistry majors and raises the students' awareness of the value of a commitment to lifelong professional and personal enrichment. The seminar program consists of three interrelated segments:  Advising, Chemical Information Literacy and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). Advising begins as prescriptive advising and grows into developmental advising with emphasis on resume writing, interviewing skills and career options. Chemical information literacy consists of formalized instructional sessions followed by three assessments. The first assessment evaluates student knowledge of basic library skills, the second assessment concentrates on  evaluating SciFinder searching capabilities and the third assessment features patent searching using the USPTO database and SciFinder.  The CAS Learning Solutions tutorials are integrated into the instructional sessions along with online practice. GLP begins with teaching fundamental principles and often culminates in supporting faculty-student research.

Faculty-librarian collaboration yields innovative chemistry seminar program

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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