ELMSS Symposium
The Educators of Library Media Specialists Section (ELMSS) of AASL is pleased to present its first research symposium at AASL National Conference. As educators, scholars, and researchers, ELMSS members create new knowledge about the school library field and impart that knowledge to the profession’s newest members. The topic for the symposium is the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, released in 2007. The standards are the basis for curriculum development and implementation in school libraries. The symposium will open with a look at school library curricula past and present, and an overview of the standards. The group will be forming research teams to develop, present, and critique questions for substantive research on the implementation, teaching, and learning of the new standards. The work will continue as research teams formed at the symposium will continue to work to begin the research. “The Standards for the 21st-Century Learner present a unique research opportunity for school library scholars. The standards are new and different from previous information literacy standards, and there is much to learn from careful observation and study of how the 21st-century learners learn the skills, responsibilities, dispositions, and self-assessments needed to become the effective users of ideas and information envisioned by the school librarians.”
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