Chemical Information Literacy: A Brief History and Current Practices

This chapter examines the evolving standards for information literacy in higher education, with an emphasis on chemical information literacy. It describes the gradual progression from one of the first published definitions of the term "information literacy" to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, adopted by ACRL in 2016. The Competencies for Undergraduate Chemical Information Literacy, which describe information skills that every chemistry undergraduate student should acquire, map very well to the Framework, and this chapter offers recent examples from literature describing classroom exercises that support the various skills and competencies.