Information Literacy

AASL provides leadership for the development of dynamic, student-centered school library media programs. These programs help ensure that students master the information literacy skills needed to be discerning consumers and creative producers of information and ideas.

In 1998, AASL published Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning ,a guide for school library media specialists in helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation or disciplinary borders.The guidelines of Information Power also explain the importance of collaboration -- joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and a variety of print and non-print recourses. The book helps school library media specialists define their important contribution to student learning.

Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning
The nine information literacy standards published in Information Power that will help students become skillful at acquiring and managing information. This PDF file of the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning: Standards and Indicators (excerpt from Chapter 2, "Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning," of Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning) is available for distribution under a Creative Commons License. Publishers or other organizations wishing to use the standards and indicators or other content from Information Power in publications or for other commercial purposes should submit a request for permission.

Information Power Implementation Resources
Includes excerpts from Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, the Basic Implementation Kit and related publications and products.

Your School Library Media Program and No Child Left Behind Brochure
This brochure was developed by AASL to help building leaders recognize the school library media specialist's important role in helping schools meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The brochure shows how the school library media specialist is both an ally and asset to principals and administrators who have the difficult job of meeting the ambitious NCLB goals by 2013.