STEM education: why is it important to librarians

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STEM education why is it important to
librarians?

• Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry
  and Earth System Sciences,
• University of California Irvine

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Royal Society of Chemistry

• The Royal Society hopes that the new interactive
  site will inspire members of the public to see
  science as part of everyday life and culture.
• Royal Society president Lord Martin Rees, in
  an announcement for Trailblazing, an online
  exhibit of 350 years of publishing from Royal
  Society of Chemistry (December 2, 2009) URL
  http//trailblazing.royalsociety.org/

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STEM Issues for Librarians

• STEM Issues for Librarians collecting,
  disseminating, integrating resources
• NSDL (National Science Digital Library)
  http//nsdl.org/
• DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System
  Education) http//www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp

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American Chemical Society

• Right now, in classrooms across America, our
  members are preparing the next generation of
  scientists, engineers, technologists and
  mathematicians and helping all children to
  develop critical thinking and reasoning skills.
• Letter to Arne Duncan, UC Secretary of Education,
  January 9, 2009 URL http//portal.acs.org/portal/
  fileFetch/C/WPCP_011731/pdf/WPCP_011731.pdf

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STEM issues The Technological Context

• Interdisciplinary Research and Integrated Content
• Flexible and Agile Career Paths for students and
  advanced learners
• Information Expansion creation and availability
  of raw data
• Learning Concepts and Information Literacy
• Teaching Problem Solving and Lifelong Learning
  Techniques
• Building Sustainable Societies

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STEM issues Societal and Professional Context

• The Realization of Globalization and the Global
  Economy The World is the Market
• STEM Teaching Issues for International and
  Domestic Students
• Interaction Skills of Teamwork, Communications,
  and Public Policy
• Example Abrupt Climate Change and Global Warming
• The issues involves primary science, public
  policy, legal issues, engineering applications,
  social discourse.

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STEM education why is it important to
librarians?

• Mitchell C. Brown, MLIS
• Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System
  Science and Russian Studies University of
  California Irvine
• Email mcbrown_at_uci.edu