Hi Helen,
At a slight tangent, but I hope still relevant, we will be publishing a
Web-tutorial called "Internet Chemist" in May this year, designed to
teach *Internet* information skills to Chemists.
It will follow the lines of other subject tutorials within the RDN
Virtual Training Suite <http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk> - in May there will
be 40 tutorials, covering most university subjects.
These tutorials (funded by JISC) can be used as a "teach yourself" tool
or as a resource to support teaching and training in this area.
We hope these tutorials will be used to support library user education
programmes. Library staff at the University of Bristol have been
conducting an evaluation of them in their user-education this year -
the results will be made available in early Summer, hopefully with some
ideas on how Web-tutorials can support work in this area.
Best wishes,
Emma Place
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:37:11 +0000 Helen Hathaway
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> I am a member of the SCONUL Task Force on Information Skills (find our
> position paper at
> http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/publications.htm#2)
>
> We are now turning our attention to looking at how Information Skills
> are taught to several specific subject areas - and chemistry is one of
> them.
>
> I would very much like to know about any UK or Irish Higher Education
> or FE Institutions that have done any work on teaching Information
> Skills to Chemists.
>
> I am particularly interested to know about any institutions that feel
> any of the points below apply to them.
>
> 1 Teach at different levels in an organised way
> ie a progression from orientation/induction through to final year
> undergraduates and postgraduates
>
> 2 Teach a curriculum (either in consultation with academic colleagues or
> one that has been developed by Library staff)
>
> 3 Teach a curriculum that links to other skills - subject specific eg
> Chemdraw, or transferable eg communication skills
>
> 4 Have used the Subject Benchmarking statement to inform their teaching
>
> 5 Have used an institutional strategy (or Subject Reviews) for teaching
> and learning as a tool to change their approach or influence Departments
> in their approaches to Information Skills
>
> If you have any comments, insights or examples of good practice or
> other aspects of teaching Information Skills to chemists you are keen to
> share with me please do!
>
> Helen
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> Helen Hathaway Tel: 0118 9318779
> Team Manager, Faculty of Science Fax: 0118 9316636
> University of Reading Library
> Whiteknights PO Box 223 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Reading RG6 6AE
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