Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning » (2nd Edition)

An immediate and ongoing bestseller, Information Power includes the standards 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.

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Information Power 1988 (IP1) is, indeed, guidelines for school library media programs, full of job descriptions, room sizes and locations, and numbers of books and media essential for an outstanding library media program. Information Power 1998 (IP2) moves out to reach the education community, building partnerships for learning among teachers and administrators, as well as students and parents. It is an exciting document to read. To librarians, who know that the library media center has always been the center of information access instruction, IP2 affirms their position at the center of the information revolution. The leader-librarian described in IP1 is, in IP2, central to collaboration among learners, both faculty and students. It is through the library that they learn the information-seeking strategies and information evaluation skills essential to slogging through the morass of data dumped on them not only by Internet search engines, but also by publishing houses cranking out histories of today's events today. Every person in the school building must learn how to pick out the bits of information she or he needs. Librarians have always taught learners how to gather and use information to produce the outcome they desire. IP2 provides the goals and supporting arguments for the library as the center of the learning community. The annotated bibliographies at the end of each section provide the research ammunition. The IP2 librarian is an instructional leader, a collaborator and teacher, a program facilitator, a curious learner, and an administrator of a program that is an effective force in the school. This powerful publication must be in every school library media center and should be in the hands of every school administrator. It is not just about reading and searching strategies; it is about authentic and exciting learning. Read it cover to cover, quote it in memos, repeat its message in budget requests, put the information literacy standards up on walls around the school and let them inspire teaching and learning at your school. Index. Illus. Photos. Biblio. Appendix.