I-Skills Resumé

(Information Skills and Knowledge for Lifelong Learning Success)

Personal: (Name, Course, Semester, Year)
Special Expertise: (What kinds of info or topics are you especially adept at
finding/evaluating/using)
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Education: (What classes, training reading, self teaching etc. have you done in the area
of information skills)
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Experience: (what types of information can you find and what tools can you use – e.g.
article databases, library catalogues, deep web sites, laws, addresses, etc)
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Other: (Anything else pertaining to your information finding/evaluating/usage skills
you'd like an employer to know, e.g. citing/analysing/bias checking)

I-Skills Resumé

(Information Skills and Knowledge for Lifelong Learning Success)

Personal: (Name, Course, Semester) I. B. Profen, Chemistry 3351, Winter 2003
Special Expertise: (What kinds of info or topics are you especially adept at
finding/evaluating/using)
• Expert at finding government chemical research information on the web
• Adept at using databases to find articles from scholarly journals
Education: (What classes, training reading, self teaching etc. have you done in the area
of information skills)
• Library sessions for the following courses:
o CHEM 2201 – using databases and the web
o CHEM 2203 – using print sources
o CHEM 3350 – using environmental print and web sources
o CHEM 3351 – using production print and web sources, patents
o BIOL 2231 – using library resources, web evaluation
o ENGL 2201 – using library resources
• In-house workshop, “Finding and using data on hazardous chemicals” during
summer employment at Dupont
• Self-taught user of RSS feeds for chemistry blogs
Experience: (what types of information can you find and what tools can you use – e.g.
article databases, library catalogues, deep web sites, laws, addresses, etc)
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Experienced with online catalogues for MRC, University of Lethbridge and
Lethbridge Public Library
Expert user of ProQuest, Academic Search Premier, for locating articles
Familiar with using Interlibrary Loan services to get information from other
libraries
Expert at retrieving MSDS and other hazard information from the Web
Familiar with standard print tools for Chemistry including CRC Handbook,
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Merck Index
Familiar with Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
website and resources
Adept at using search engines on government sites to extract maximum
information form federal and provincial departments
Have used the US Patent database

Other: (Anything else pertaining to your information finding/evaluating/usage skills
you'd like an employer to know, e.g. citing/analysing/bias checking)
• Familiar with documenting sources in APA format
• Adept at evaluating websites for authority and currency