Resource Guides for School Library Media Program Development
Information Literacy
American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998. ISBN 0-8389-3470-6
Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning includes the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning that will help students become skillful producers and consumers of information along with the guidelines and principles that will help you create a dynamic, student-centered program. The book's underlying concepts will guide you in:
- Helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation or disciplinary borders
- Joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and a variety of print and non-print resources
- Designing authentic learning tasks and assessments
- Defining your role in student learning.
Available from the ALA Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/aasl or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252); an online preview is available.
American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998. ISBN 0-8389-3471-4
To assist you in collaboration and to bolster advocacy for your program, the new standards are also available separately in a companion publication, Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning. This inexpensive publication is designed for distribution to your partners in information power--teachers, principals, parents, boards, and administrators. Available from the ALA Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/aasl or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252).
PDF file of Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning: Standards and Indicators is available for distribution under a Creative Commons License.
Building-level Basic Implementation Kit for InformationPower
This Basic Implementation Kit PowerPoint presentation is designed for use by building-level school library media specialists to introduce the standards and principles of Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning to an audience of parents, teachers, and/or building administrators. Placing the standards and principles in the context of building-level programming can help to create advocates for the library media program among the stakeholder groups. Other tools to assist you in your efforts to implement Information Power are available at www.ala.org/aasl/ip_implementation.html.
"Information Literacy: Unlocking Your Child's Door to theWorld"
AASL Past-President M. Ellen Jay writes to parents and other caregivers about the importance of information literacy.
KidsConnect KCTools
www.ala.org/ICONN/kctools.html
KidsConnect's research toolbox for students, to help them become more comfortable with the research process. In KCTools you'll find help with four basic phases of the research process. It begins with "I wonder" and asks you to think about your question or topic and how to seek further advice on the Internet.
SLMR Resources for Information Power
www.ala.org/aasl/SLMR/slmr_resources/slmr_select_toc.html
Consists of past articles from School Library Media Quarterly (SLMQ) that are referenced in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Reprinted as part of the "Editor's Choice Resources" in AASL's online research journal, School Library Media Research (SLMR)
Valenza, Joyce Kasman. Power Tools Recharged: 125+ Essential Forms and Presentations for Your School Library Media Program. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004. ISBN 0-8389-0880-2
A completely revised hands-on guide to address school library media specialists' most pressing issues. A collection of must-have, customizable tools to help you:
- administer everyday details and develop policies;
- assess to measure impact and evaluate success;
- teach information literacy using simple assignments;
- support students with hands-on, project-based tools; and
- make powerful presentations to administrators, teachers, students, parents and community leaders.
Available from the ALA Online Store at http://alastore.ala.org or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252).
Association of College and Research Libraries. "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education."
Baltimore (Md.) County Public Schools. "Information Literacy Skills used in BCPS Research Lessons."
www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/
Blueprint for Collaboration
AASL and the Association of College and Research Libraries share the goals of fostering lifelong learning and ensuring that students at all educational levels are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century. This report is a product of a joint task force charged to examine the educational role of libraries and recommending ways of initiating and fostering means of affecting closer collaboration between librarians in K-12 and post-secondary education to the benefit of the constituencies they serve.
Grimes, Deborah J., and Carl H. Boening. "Worries with the Web: A Look at Student Use of Web Resources." College & Research Libraries 62, no. 1 (January 2001): 11-23.
Information Literacy Community Partnership Toolkit
http://library.austin.cc.tx.us/staff/lnavarro/CommunityPartnerships/Toolkit.html
"The community partnerships initiative is one of the three main initiatives of ACRL's Institute for Information Literacy and one of ALA President Nancy Kranich's initiatives for her 2000- 2001 presidential term. The overall goal of the effort is to build information literacy community partnerships. These partnerships will bring together librarians from school, academic, public and special libraries and community members/organizations to help prepare the public to utilize information efficiently and effectively. An information-literate populace fully participates in the workplace, in their education, and in community and family life."
Institute for Information Literacy (Association of College and Research Libraries)
Library Advocate's Guide to Building Information Literate Communities (American Library Association)
www.ala.org/ala/advocacybucket/informationliteracy.pdf
Loertscher, David V., and Blanche Woolls. Information Literacy: A Review of the Research: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers. San Jose, Calif.: Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-931510-72-3
Review of research on information literacy published in research journals and research retreats, with suggestions for translating the research into practice.
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