Information Literacy: What Does It Look Like in the School Library Media Center? » (1st Edition)

ANN MARLOW RIEDLING is Associate Professor at Saint Leo University, St. Petersburg. She has worked in the field of library science and information technology since 1974. Her previous books include Reference Skills for the School Library Media Specialist: Tools and Tips; Catalog It! A Guide to Cataloging School Library Materials; Learning to Learn: A Guide to Becoming Information Literate; Helping Teachers Teach: A School Library Media Specialist's Role (3rd ed.), and a trade book, How We Became Camels.

Riedling (Saint Leo U., St. Petersburg) provides a practical textbook to teach library media specialists what information literacy looks like at a variety of levels, so they can effectively and knowledgeably relay the information literacy process to students of all ages. Coverage includes an overview of information literacy basics; collaborating to make information literacy a schoolwide reform effort; accessing, evaluation, and using information in the classroom; and fostering lifelong, independent, socially-responsible learning. For undergraduate and graduate students in school library media and practicing library media specialists. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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While readers may find it difficult to envision what information literacy actually looks like in action, Riedling makes an admirable attempt to do so in this relatively slim manual. In fact, the annotated endnote references for each chapter seem sometimes as long as the chapters themselves. The book is organized into six extensively researched chapters. The author includes boxed insets of pertinent questions, information, statistics, and sample formats for various applications. If you carry away nothing else, the following statistic should change how you teach technology: citing a survey commissioned by the OCLC, of the 1050 college students representing 18- to 24-year-olds throughout the nation, "only 4 percent of college students question the information they encounter" on the Internet. The information about how this all meshes together into a coherent whole that leads to learning and also aligns to district, state, and national requirement makes this book a worthwhile addition.-Mary R. Hofmann, Rivera Middle School, Merced, CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.