Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; check lists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college. Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; checklists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college. This book will offer help and guidance to high school teachers and librarians concerned that high school seniors are not ready to tackle the college library and college level research assignments. And it will inform students about what they need to know. Grades 9-12.

ANN MARLOW RIEDLING is Associate Professor at Saint Leo University, St. Petersburg. She has worked in the field of library science and information technology since 1974. Her previous books include Reference Skills for the School Library Media Specialist: Tools and Tips, Catalog It! A Guide to Cataloging School Library Materials, Learning to Learn: A Guide to Becoming Information Literate, and Helping Teachers Teach: A School Library Media Specialist's Role (3rd ed.), and a trade book, How We Became Camels.