This volume aims to help readers respond proactively and help to lead the way to collaborative learning in schools.

Do they "get it"? Are students mastering information literacy? Framing ACRL standards as benchmarks, this work provides a toolbox of assessment strategies to demonstrate students' learning.

Information literacyÑdefined as the ability to locate, access, evaluate, and use informationÑis linked to critical thinking and lifelong learning, and as such is an essential learning outcome directly related to students' academic success. As accountability at all levels of education becomes more critical, so will the need for information literacy assessment and accreditation at the college level.

Provides vision for strong school library programs, including identification of the skills and knowledge essential for students to be information literate. Includes recommended baseline staffing, access, and resources for school library services at each grade level.

Teaching Information Literacy to Social Sciences Students & Practitioners is a second discipline-based casebook from ACRL. This volume is based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards and presents cases on learning situations and how they can be analyzed and addressed. Also included are descriptions of instruction sessions for each case, notes, and teaching resources. Each case explicitly reflects one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards.This practical collection of cases and applications brings a new set of resources to librarians doing instruction in the social sciences. Contributors cover such topics as data literacy, visual literacy, and developmental research skills training. Information on teaching undergraduate, graduate, and international students, and how to incorporate information literacy into various social science curricula are also presented.

"This book of lesson plans uses nationally recognized and award-winning picture books found in most elementary library collections to teach the AASL/AECT Information Literacy Standards. Targeted for grades K-3, the book is complete with reproducible patterns and immediately usable reproducible activities providing lessons for each grade level, for each month of the school year." - back cover.