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Library and its Users

Notes Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. ...... (1996) study of the new workplace indicates significant changes will take place in the
future.
2. ...... is an important educational outcome for students.

13.2 Education in the USA

13.2.1 Standards

National content standards, state standards, and information literacy skills terminology may vary,
but all have common components relating to information literacy.
Information literacy skills are critical to several of the National Education Goals outlined in the
Goals 2000: Educate America Act, particularly in the act’s aims to increase “school readiness”,
“student achievement and citizenship”, and “adult literacy and lifelong learning”. Of specific
relevance are the “focus on lifelong learning, the ability to think critically, and on the use of new
and existing information for problem solving”, all of which are important components of information
literacy.
In 1998, the American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational
Communications and Technology published “Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning”,
which identified nine standards that librarians and teachers in K-12 schools could use to describe
information literate students and define the relationship of information literacy to independent
learning and social responsibility:
• Standard One: The student who is information literate accesses information efficiently and
effectively.
• Standard Two: The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and
competently.
• Standard Three: The student who is information literate uses information accurately and
creatively.
• Standard Four: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and pursues
information related to personal interests.
• Standard Five: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and
appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.
• Standard Six: The student who is an independent learner is information literate and strives
for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.
• Standard Seven: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to
society is information literate and recognizes the importance of information to a democratic
society.
• Standard Eight: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to
society is information literate and practices ethical behavior in regard to information and
information technology.
• Standard Nine: The student who contributes positively to the learning community and to
society is information literate and participates effectively in groups to pursue and generate
information.
In 2007 AASL expanded and restructured the standards that school librarians should strive for in
their teaching. These were published as “Standards for the 21st Century Learner” and address several

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