AASL Meeting at ALA National

The ALA National meeting in Chicago is shaping up to be an excellent time with many learning and networking opportunities. I have been asked to speak for a few minutes at the interdivisional meeting of the AASL/ACRL information literacy committee's workshop regarding collaborative partnerships. Here is the summary of the workshop from the conference webpage:

AASL
Closing the Gap: Making Information Literacy Seamless Across K-16
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner. This will be followed with short, showcase presentations highlighting effective collaboration between K-12 and higher education library personnel to bridge the information gap. The session will close by sharing resources to facilitate similar collaborative efforts, including a presentation about the Committee’s toolkit.

They are gathering school & higher ed librarians from across the country to speak about their programs and ideas that they use to cross those divides. This should be an enlightening discussion, and I am excited to be a part of this. I will share everything I learn with all of you. I hope some of my local colleagues will be able to attend the National meeting as well.

To look at the preliminary list of workshops being offered, see this link:

http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/2009/Early-preliminary-programs-an09.doc


Jeanne
JSerra Catholic HS