Welcome to Curriculum Resources for School Librarians!
Purpose:
To empower, educate, and encourage school library media specialists to utilize this tool to teach Information Literacy skills to their students; therefore preparing the students for college and an information fluent society.
Vision:
It is the vision of the ISLMA Standards Committee that this curriculum would also be used to aid in demonstrating the cross-curricular value of school libraries. If used properly, this curriculum along with collaboration of other classroom teachers will provide the data many administrators use for decision-making.
History:
Annually, the Alliance Library System consulting staff attend site visits at each of our member libraries. In 2007, one trend noticed by the staff was the need for an Information Literacy or library skills curriculum aligned with the Illinois Learning Standards and the new American Association for School Librarians (AASL) standards. In January 2008, a focus group was formed and utilized to research sample curricula and format the framework for the final sample. Iowa City CUSD gave permission to use the library standards, benchmarks and objectives from their curriculum in February 2008. In August 2008, Alliance Library System staff, with the help of member librarians, published the first version in CD format and as a wiki online. In October 2008 the curriculum was presented to the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) for adoption as a statewide model and I-SAIL was adopted by ISLMA in January 2009.
