At the onset of a search a student will recognize the importance of locating information from a variety of sources and accessing specific information found within an individual resource. Library media specialists help students build positive attitudes toward the use and communication of ideas. Once potentially useful information has been located, the student uses a screening process to determine the usefulness of the information. Following an assessment of the information, the student must use the information to solve the particular information problem. The student must be able to organize and communicate the results of the information problem-solving effort.
Students practice information literacy in many different ways.
They are incorporating stories about their community during World War I, photos of some of the community residents, photos of the community from that period of time and a table with community population figures. This report will go into each childs portfolio. Using the Internet, an international electronic communication network, students are sharing data from their own lake study project with students as far away as Russia They are also following an arctic training expedition, questioning and receiving information from the explorers. They are searching the school district online catalog, a database of statewide library resources and online historical magazine indexes and a laserdisc of resources from the Library of Congress. Among the resources selected by one student are primary source newspapers, a videotaped documentary, an audio recording of folk songs, along with books and magazine articles.