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Accreditation

• Characteristics of excellence in higher education
  The standards for accreditation require information literacy embedded and assessed in the higher education curriculum.
• Developing research & communication skills: guidelines for information literacy in the curriculum

Discipline Specific Standards

• Information literacy competency standards for higher education (ACRL, 2000)  A "framework for assessing the information literate individual," and an outline of the process by which "faculty, librarians and others can pinpoint specific indicators that identify a student as information literate."
• Objectives for information literacy instruction: a model statement for academic librarians (ACRL, 2001) Includes information about the development of the objectives.

Information Literacy for Science & Technology

Based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, "each performance indicator is accompanied by one or more outcomes for assessing the progress toward information literacy of students of science and engineering or technology at all levels of higher education."

• Information literacy standards for science and technology (ACRL, 2005)

Information Literacy for Chemistry

1. Information literacy for students of chemistry by Dr. Philip Barnett, City College of New York (CUNY, 2005)
2. Undergraduate professional education in chemistry: Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures: Spring 2003 Guidelines -- Pages 14 and 17 contain useful information for information literacy. See also Topical Supplements to the Guidelines.