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Information Literacy in the Disciplines

PHYSICS

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, 2008).

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). http://www.abet.org/.

Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics (CAMPEP). http://www.campep.org/.

Institute of Physics (UK). http://www.iop.org/activity/policy/Degree_Accreditation/page_1732.html.


American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). http://www.aapm.org/.

American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). http://www.aapt.org/.

American Institute of Physics (AIP). http://www.aip.org/.

American Physical Society (APS). http://www.aps.org/.

Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). http://www.cap.ca/.

European Physical Society. http://www.eps.org/.

Institute of Physics. http://www.iop.org/.

International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP). http://www.iamp.org.





Curricula, Articles, and Presentations

Aydelott, Kathrine. "Using the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology to develop a modular critical-thinking-based information literacy tutorial." Science & Technology Libraries 27, no. 4 (2007): 19-42.

Brown, Cecelia M. "Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age." College & Research Libraries 60, no. 5 (September 1999): 426-438.

Claspy, William P. "The Librarian as Teacher: Instructing the Next Generation of Information-Literate Scientists at Case Western Reserve University." In Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV (LISA IV) Conference Proceedings July 2-5, 2002 at Charles University, in Prague, Czech Republic.http://www.hq.eso.org/gen-fac/libraries/lisa4/Claspy.pdf (accessed April 28, 2008).Fjallbrant, Nancy. "Information Literacy for Scientists and Engineers: Experiences of EDUCATE and DEDICATE program." The Association for Information Management 34, no. 3 (2000): 257-268.

Fosmire, Michael. "Bibliographic Instruction in Physics Libraries: A Survey of Current Practice andTtips for Marketing BI." Science & Technology Libraries 19, no. 2 (2001): 25-34. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=lib_research (accessed April 28, 2008).

Gomez, Nancy D. "Physicists Information Behavior: A Qualitative Study of Users." Paper presented at the 70th IFLA Council and General Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August, 22-27, 2004. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007991/01/behaviorphysicsIFLA.pdf (accessed, April 28, 2008).

Leckie, Gloria J. and Anne Fullerton. "Information Literacy in Science and Engineering Undergraduate Education: Faculty Attitudes and Pedagogical Practices." College & Research Libraries 60, no. 1 (1999): 9-29. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues1999b/january99/leckie.pdf (accessed April 28, 2008).

O'Connell, Suzanne. "Improving Library Research Papers in Undergraduate Science Classes." American Journal of Physics 64 (April 1996): 448-451. http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=AJPIAS000064000004000448000001&idtype=cvips&prog=normal (accessed April 28, 2008).

Popescu, Adriana and James Morgan. "Teaching Information Evaluation and Critical Thinking Skills in Physics Classes." The Physics Teacher 45, no. 8 (2007): 507-510. http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PHTEAH000045000008000507000001&idtype=cvips&prog=normal (accessed April 28, 2008).

Solla, Leah. "Low Stress Opportunity for Research Students to Explore Information Resources: Information Literacy for the Physical Scientist." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 37 (2003). http://www.istl.org/03-spring/article6.html (accessed April 28, 2008).

Viele, Patricia T. "Physics213: an Example of Faculty/Librarian Collaboration." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 47 (Summer 2006): http://www.istl.org/06-summer/article2.html (accessed May 3, 2007).

Viele, Patricia T. "Information Fluency and Physics Graduate Students" Poster presented at the Graduate Education in Physic Conference at the American Physical Society in College Park, MD, January 31-February 2 2008. http://www.aps.org/programs/education/upload/Vieleposter.ppt (accessed, April 28, 2008).





Teaching Materials

Allison, Elise, James Ruth, Zahra Kamarei, and Angela Bardeen. "Physics research tutorial." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Libraries. http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/physics/intro/ (accessed April 28, 2008).

Fosmire, Michael. "How to read a scientific paper tutorial." Purdue University Libraries. http://www.lib.purdue.edu/phys/inst/scipaper.htm (accessed April 28, 2008).

Gibson, Chris and John Blunden-Ellis. "Internet physicist tutorial." Intute: Virtual Training Suite. http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/physics (accessed April 28, 2008).

Library of Kaunas University of Technology. "Information literacy course in physics." http://internet.unib.ktu.lt/physics/default.htm (accessed April 28, 2008).

Mandernach, Meris and Bill Ingham. "Information literacy assignments in physics (and astronomy)." James Madison University. http://www.lib.jmu.edu/instruction/documents/PhysCFIInfoLitPanelFeb0107.ppt (accessed April 28, 2008).

Smith College Libraries. "Smith College physics majors research skills." http://www.smith.edu/library/services/faculty/infolit/ilprograms/physicsskills.htm (accessed April 28, 2008).





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