A school library media center is a very busy place. In It are students, teachers, and library media Specialists as well as books, reference tools, audiovisual and electronic resources. In the swiftly moving world of information, library instruction must now be fashioned to achieve that goal. Librarians with files full of lesson plans on the illustrious Mr. Dewey and the Reader's Guide have found themselves waking up on the wrong side of the bed with the new dawning of curriculum integration of library skills. It is widely accepted that library skills should not be taught in isolation.
Collaboration is now the shape of library instruction.
They are designed to provide school librarians and teachers with a framework for information proficiency, student achievement and life-long learning skills. The Information Literacy Skills, however, give us school library media specialists a balanced framework within which to work toward our ultimate goal of student achievement. The Virginia SOLs do include library skills throughout, thus strengthening the case for curriculum integration of library skill instruction and for collaboration as the method to ensure that this instruction takes place. Collaboration is the buzzword at the moment. The library media specialist and teacher develop a lesson or activity that uses the best the classroom, media center, and wider learning community can offer.