Chemical information instruction in the age of GoogleŽ

CHED 148

Charles F. Huber, huber@library.ucsb.edu, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
Making chemistry students literate in the ways of chemical information has always been a challenge. However, the nature of the challenge has changed over the years. With many of the most important resources for chemical information now available electronically, the present-day might be regarded as the Golden Age of Information (in more ways than one.) But to most of our students this is the GoogleŽ Age of Information. What are the new challenges for the chemical information instructor posed by the age of the ubiquitous web search engine? Examples from the author's classes will be given.