I bring you greetings from the Georgia Library Media Association which represents school library media specialists, coordinators for school library media services, library media educators in our university system, and others interested in promoting excellence in Georgia's school library media centers. We are all here today because we are about the business of information and how it relates to learning. They know how to learn because they know how knowledge is organized, how to find information, and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them. They are people prepared for lifelong learning, because they can always find the information needed for any task or decision at hand. This is what we want for all citizens of Georgia - whether in the public or private sector, or in the educational system.
Success requires knowledge.
Knowledge requires information, and as the rate of information in the world grows exponentially, we have to be certain that the technology is there, the financial resources are there, and that the information professionals are there to guide these learners into sometimes uncharted territory. How can students be expected to swim through the oceans of information without someone to guide them. Now, students may be prone to think that if it's on the internet, then it's accurate. Information Power sets forth national standards and guidelines. This will be the focus this year in the Georgia Library Media Association.