The responsibility for helping students achieve information literacy resides with library media staff, teachers, administrators and the community. The library media specialist, teaching collaboratively with other teachers, is vital to student learning. Use resources, including technology, and expertise to integrate information literacy Standards. Promote interdisciplinary learning. Connect the student and school to larger communities.
Information literacy is a process applicable to all content areas.
By collaborating with the classroom teacher, the library media specialist enables students to achieve content standards. The efficient use of these skills is necessary for successful living in the twenty-first century. The student who is information literate constructs meaning from information. Knowledge seeking is a process. It is applicable to information in any form.