Middle school librarians High school librarians

58%

24%

23%

29%

Local middle school library

Public library

College/university library

Do not partner

54%of librarians partner

with classroom teachers at least monthly in

instruction.

Do you partner with other libraries to develop IL skills?

Public library

Local high school library

Other

Do not partner

How often do you teach IL?

NeverDaily

Weekly

Monthly

Once a semester

Less often

17%

27%

27%19%

9%

1%

90%How important is information literacy (IL)?

96%think that information literacy instruction is

extremely important.

25%of high school libraries

have set goals for preparing students for

college research.

teach some kind of information literacy

at their schools.

What resources do you use for IL instruction?

Databases

Citation management tools

Print materials

Skill development curriculum

Videos

Open content

Apps

Who provides IL instruction in your school?

89% 81%

16%

Classroom teachers

Librarians Techspecialists

Amount spent on digital resources to support IL instruction

Middleschools

Highschools

$5,600$900

$7,000$4,700

Average

Median

40% 48% 11%

46% 43% 7%

43% 42% 7%

40% 41% 17%

37% 45% 17%

39% 38% 19%

28% 34% 33%

35% 36% 24%

36% 40% 18%

38% 45% 16%

Database search strategies

Search engine strategies

Pre-search planning

Establishing authority in sources

Critically evaluating information quality/usefulness

Recognizing types of sources

Seeking multiple perspectives

Using evidence to investigate questions and support arguments

Developing strategies for collecting, organizing, and sharing information

Citation management tools and strategies

In what grade are the skills

�rst introduced? PRIOR TOGRADE 9

GRADE 9

GRADES 10–12

Most skills are introduced in 9th grade or earlier.

What teaching framework do you use?

ACRL

None

AASL, ISTE, ALA, or state/

provincial (Canada)

54%29%

17%

METHODOLOGY: The Information Literacy/College Readiness Survey was developed by SLJ Research in conjunction with Credo Reference. A survey invitation was emailed to a selection of middle and high school libraries on April 26, 2019. The survey closed on May 14 with 443 responses. The data was tabulated and analyzed in-house by SLJ Research. The responses are unweighted.

OPERATION:

Information Literacy

35%

29%

6%

46%

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64% of school librarians assess their efforts.

39%

36%

26%12%10%

Performancebased

Informalassessment

Formal testing

Other

Do not assess

How are IL instruction e�orts assessed?