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Many of these questions would be good for all of us to think about.  

Pat Semple's (Bullis School Librarian) pathfinders.

I thought this was very well done as it outlines the process step-by-step.

Attention, educators: training high school students early in digital research, partnering them with a school librarian, and providing time to practice skills can instill a high level of confidence during college. This triple play of digital literacy education was affirmed by preliminary observations of a study underway by EBSCO Information Service s, an online database provider.

I have signed-up for an account. The LS assessments look really on target. I have heard some negative feedback about the US assessment but still think this is worth looking at for possible tool to benchmark skills. -Faith TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. The assessment items are based on the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and those from the Common Core State Standards Initiative that have been adopted by most states. The Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. It is made available at no cost to users.

Here's an article about Ohio's iMatrix from "Teacher Librarian"; I'll also post the link to iMatrix itself. It looks like a fancy version of what we are trying to do with our google site, and it's also searchable by skill or grade level. What keeps you up at night? Educating students to be college and career ready? Incorporating inquiry into your teaching for the very first time? Shifting your instruction to explore topics in greater depth and at more rigorous levels of learning? Or are you struggling to incorporate formative instructional assessment?

This work on this website is ongoing (by their new librarian, who is the former Archivist at BMS)

An interesting presentation by Grimm & Parker Architects highlighting a survey of Librarians and Media Center Specialists regarding the  physical form and cultural role of the library as it is influenced by  changing information storage and retrieval technologies.

Higher Education Information Literacy competencies and standards from Association of College and Research Librarians.