Historically, chemistry information literacy skills have been taught in an independent course at James Madison University. As part of program assessment, we discovered that students were not making significant gains during the course because much of the content was covered in earlier courses. In 2011, a chemistry librarian and chemistry faculty member revised the course content in order to map critical information literacy skills, as identified by both ACS and Special Libraries Association, into the core chemistry curriculum.  Through the use of online tutorials and web guides, content was integrated into courses where students use the information. In this presentation, we will describe how these skills and content have been mapped into individual courses. We will detail the creation of online content and its delivery to several courses with learning management software. We will also discuss successes and roadblocks we have encountered and preliminary assessment data.

Embedding chemistry information literacy skills into the curriculum at James Madison University

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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