Information Literacy for Science and Engineering Students: Concepts and Skills (Libraries Unlimited Series for Teaching Information Literacy Today)

DeJong, Mary

ISBN 10: 1440878765 / ISBN 13: 9781440878763

Published by ABC-Clio, Incorporated, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Information Literacy for Science and Engineering Students: Concepts and Skills (Libraries Unlimited Series for Teaching Information Literacy Today)
• Publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440878765
• ISBN 13: 9781440878763
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This engaging handbook gives students and working scientists and engineers the information literacy skills they need to find, evaluate, and use information.

Beginning with a strong foundation in the utility, structure, and packaging of information, this useful handbook helps students and working professionals decode real-world information literacy problems. Mary DeJong provides a compelling context and rationale for the skills scientists and engineers need to succeed in challenging careers that rely on the successful discovering and sharing of complex information. Students will appreciate the in-depth information on sources, especially those needed for research assignments, and scientists and engineers who write for publication will benefit from chapters on searching databases and organizing and citing sources. Written with science and engineering students and professionals in mind, this book is thorough, well-paced, engaging, and even funny.

About the Author

Mary DeJong is a librarian at Northern Arizona University's Cline Library, USA. She holds a BA in history from State University of New York in Geneseo and an MLS from Rutgers University. She has 25 years of experience as a librarian in research institutions (The American Museum of Natural History Library and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Library) as well as educational institutions (George Washington University, Vassar College, and Northern Arizona University).