Information Literacy in the Disciplines

MATHEMATICS

The ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines Committee has gathered links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education.

Accrediting Agencies & Professional Associations

ALA/ACRL/STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology. Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology. Science & Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/infolitscitech.htm (accessed April 28, 2009).

American Mathematical Society. http://www.ams.org.

American Statistical Organization (ASA). http://www.amstat.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). http://www.awm-math.org/.

Canadian Mathematical Society. http://www.math.ca/.

European Mathematical Society (EMS). http://www.emis.de/ems-general.html.

The Instititure of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). http://www.ima.org.uk/.

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA). http://www.maa.org/.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). http://www.nctm.org/.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). http://www.siam.org/.

Curricula, Articles, and Presentations

Goetsch, Lori A., and Paula T. Kaufman. "Readin', Writin', Arithmetic, and Information Competency: Adding a Basic Skills Component to a University's Curriculum." Campus-Wide Information Systems 15, no. 5 (1998): 158-163.

Hulbert, Janet McNeil and Richard A. Weida. "Developing a BI Project for Mathematics Research in the Small College Library." Research Strategies 9, no. 4 (1991): 189-194.

Leckie, Gloria J., and Anne Fullerton. "Information Literacy in Science and Engineering Undergraduate Education: Faculty Attitudes and Pedagogical Practices." College and Research Libraries 60, no. 1 (1999): 9-29.

Teaching Materials

Allison, Elise, James Ruth, Lisa Norberg and Kim Vas. Mathematics Research Tutorial. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University Libraries. http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/math/intro (accessed April 28, 2008).

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