SLA-DCHE IL Committee

	D-CHE Ad Hoc Committee for Information Literacy
	Est. June 2004

Information Literacy Membership:

Cory Craig (co-chair)	UC - Davis
Linda Maddux (co-chair)	Reed College

Beth Blanton-Kent	University of Virginia
Margarete Bower	U of Pittsburg
Bartow Culp	Purdue University
Judith Currano	U of Pennsylvania
Donna Hudson	Emory
Meghan Lafferty	U of Minn
Jim Martin	U of Arizona
Lee Pedersen	Brown
Marion Peters (ex-officio)	UCLA
Deb Carter Peoples	Ohio Wesleyan U
Nancy Simons	Georgia Tech
Kiem Ta	Oklahoma State U

Web Committee Membership: (Committee Information & Web Guide)

Dana Roth (chair)	Cal Tech

Bob Buchanan	Auburn U.
Dawn French	Millennium Chem
Marion Peters (ex-officio)	UCLA
Teri Vogel (division webmaster)	UC - San Diego

Documents for June 06:

Tasks & Reports
June 2005 (PDF)

Minutes:

June 2004 (PDF)
June 2005 (PDF)

Goal:

Partner with ACS-CINF and ACRL-STS to develop maintain, and review information literacy compentencies for chemistry undergraduates.

Background:

SLA Chemistry Division brings together librarians/information professionals focused on developing and delivering superior chemical information resources to their communities. Chemistry majors are employed by the companies or pursue graduate studies in the academic institutions in which we work.

Strategies:

•Identify key individuals in CINF and ACRL-STS to begin a dialogue
•Gather existing proposed competencies and review
•Publicize on SLA Chemistry Division website
•Share findings with Web Committee to assist in development of a stand-alone webpage

Tools & Documents:

Information Literacy Standards
ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards For Higher Education
ACS: Chemical Information Retrieval
ACRL-STS: Information Literacy in the Sciences Task Force

D-CHE Ad Hoc Committee for Information Literacy