Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

DOI

10.29173/slw8232

Publication Title

School Libraries Worldwide

Volume

25

Issue

1

Pages

1-20

Abstract

The Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the American Association for School Libraries (AASL), two major divisions of the American Library Association (ALA), both recently released new guidelines. These documents form the basis for information literacy and library skills instruction for PK-20 education. In this study, we explored the alignment between these documents to identify the continuum of knowledge and skill expectations as well as the dispositional attributes toward information literacy that learners are presented. Our findings identified where the content of the ACRL Framework and AASL Standards Framework for Learners documents is strongly aligned as well as the gaps in the teaching and learning continuum. These findings suggest areas for ongoing development in practical application for both PK-12 school librarians and academic librarians who provide information literacy instruction in colleges and universities.

Rights

© 2019 International Association of School Librarianship and the Authors.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License.

Original Publication Citation

E., Gross, M., & Latham, D. (2019). The information literacy continuum: Mapping the ACRL framework to the AASL school library standards. School Libraries Worldwide, 25(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.29173/slw8232

ORCID

0000-0002-3808-0195 (Burns)

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