Resource Guides for School Library Media Program Development
Information Literacy
American Association of School Librarians. Standards for the 21st Century Learner. Chicago: American Library Association, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8389-8445-1 (bundle of 12 pamphlets).
Here is the latest publication from AASL on information literacy standards. It revises the 1998 publication, Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning. School library media specialists will want to have and retain all three documents listed here.
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.
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.
A PDF file of Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning: Standards and Indicators is available for distribution under a Creative Commons License.
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.
Association of College and Research Libraries. Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
American Association of School Librarians/Association of College and Research Libraries. 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 page 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.
Association of College and Research Libraries. Institute for Information Literacy.
Library Advocate's Guide to Building Information Literate Communities (American Library Association)
Loertscher, David V., and Blanche Woolls. Information Literacy: A Review of the Research. 2nd ed. Spring, TX, LMC Source, 2002. ISBN 0-931510-80-5.
Review of research on information literacy published in research journals and research retreats, with suggestions for translating the research into practice. This edition includes studies done in Canada, Australia, Great Britain and the United States.
There have been many recent publications on Information Literacy. Here is a sample:
Smith, Jane Bandy. Teaching and Testing Information Literacy Skills. Columbus, OH, Linworth Publishing Co., 2005. ISBN 1-58683-078-3.
This book will help media specialists learn how to collaborate with teachers to effectively teach and assess information literacy skills.
Curzon, Susan and Lynn Lampert, eds. Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program. New York: Neal Schuman, 2007. ISBN 1-55570-608-1.
These authors feature the concept of an ‘information literacy wheel’ (planning, teaching models, collaboration, marketing, assessment, etc.) and each section on the wheel is analyzed by an authority in information literacy including Mike Eisenberg, Lesley Farmer, and others.
DeAbreau, Belinha S. Teaching Media Literacy: A How-to-do it Manual. New York: Neal Schuman, 2007. ISBN 1-55570-596-1.
This guide includes ready-to-use lessons for teaching media literacy in many forms including television, movies, photography, images, music, video, and more. There are curriculum connections for all the major core curriculum areas.
Langhorne, Mary Jo, ed. Developing an Information Literacy Program K-12; A How-to-do-it Manual and CD-ROM 2d ed. New York: Neal Schuman, 2004. ISBN 978-1-55570-509-1.
Developed by the Iowa City Community School District, this guide has been updated to include more lesson plans, worksheets, and other resources linked to core curriculum areas.
Small, Ruth. Designing Digital Literacy Programs With IM-PACT; Information Motivation, Purpose, Audience, Content and Techniques. New York: Neal Schuman, 2004. ISBN 978-1-55570-505-3.
With this resource, you can design digital literacy programs using the key components of IM-PACT (information motivation, purpose, audience, content, and technique). This is the essential guide to the IM-PACT model.
Riedling, Ann Marlow. Learning to Learn: A Guide to Becoming Information Literate in the 21st Century. 2d ed. New York: Neal Schuman, 2006. ISBN 978-1-55570-556-5.
This book is designed to help students from middle school through early college become proficient in the research process. It also includes chapters on intellectual property, copyright, and plagiarism.
Reidling, Ann Marlow. An Educator’s Guide to Information Literacy; What Every High School Senior Needs to Know. Westport, CT, Libraries Unlimited, 2007. ISBN 1-59158-446-9.
A resource book for high school seniors, this could be used to prepare them for college research skills and literacy expectations.
Thomas, Nancy Pickering. Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction; Applying Research to Practice in the School Library Media Center. 2d ed. Westport, CT, Libraries Unlimited, 2004. ISBN 1-59158-081-1.
A thorough summary and review of research related to information literacy, look here for reviews of the literature concerning learning styles, information skills, literacy skills, technological literacy, and bibliographic instruction; the author discusses current trends, issues and applications for the research reviewed.
Kulthau, Carol, Leslie K. Maniotes, and Ann K. Caspari. Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century. Westport, CT. Libraries Unlimited, 2007. ISBN 1-59158-435-3.
Kuhlthau and her co-authors have teamed up to create a text on guided inquiry—a method for teaching curriculum content, information literacy and other strategies for learning.
Callison, Daniel, and Leslie Preddy. The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. ISBN 1-59158-325-X.
Blending educational and library science theories, this book describes the essential role of the library media specialist in education, and it provides many practical ideas and resources for teaching information literacy skills.
Taylor, Joie. Information Literacy and the School Library Media Center. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005. ISBN 0-313-32020-9.
This book focuses on how information literacy is implemented through curriculum areas through the collaborative efforts of classroom teachers and library media specialists.
Eisenberg, Michael B., Carrie Lowe and Kathleen Spitzer. Information Literacy; Essential Skills for the Information Age. 2d ed. Westport, CT, Libraries Unlimited, 2004. ISBN 1-59158-143-5.
Tracing the history of information literacy, the authors discuss its economic importance, examine past, present, and future research in the field, and explain how information literacy relates to the national and state standards. It is a good place to start for building a theoretical base.
Frey, Nancy and Douglas Fisher. Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2008. ISBN 1412953111.
This resource offers background articles, research, practical ideas and sample lesson plans to help educators address multiple competencies in literacy, and help students comprehend and assess visual information.
Ercegovac, Zorana. Information Literacy: Search Strategies, Tools and Resources for High School Students and College Freshman. 2d ed. Columbus, OH: Linworth Publishing Co., 2008. ISBN 1-58683-332-4.
This book examines information literacy from five types of learning: content understanding, problem-solving, metacognition, collaboration, and communication. It includes lesson plans, pre-and post-tests, scoring rubrics, and a checklist for evaluating online databases, among others.
Visual Literacy:
The theme of the January/February 2008 issue of Knowledge Quest (v. 36, #3) is Visual Literacy. For more resources, see the Web Extras.
For another online journal dealing with information and media literacy, visit SIMILE: Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy
S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that seeks to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. It is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy. The acronym stands for “Situation, Outcomes, Strategies.”
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