Establishing relationships with the scientists who use one's facility is key to providing chemical information services to researchers; however, many new chemistry librarians and library liaisons have little or no formal training in the discipline that they support.  Since the late 1990s, the Chemistry Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) has provided support and training to inexperienced chemistry librarians through continuing education course offerings.  This presentation describes the history and evolution of the Chemistry for the Non-Chemist Librarian course and gives glimpses into ways that research chemists can work with their non-chemist librarians to increase their comfort with the language of chemistry.

"Dancing" lessons: Teaching non-chemist librarians to communicate with chemists

248th National Meeting (2014)

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