Presented at the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy by Marnie Utz and Steven Yates, Librarians Spain Park High School, Hoover, Alabama

HIGH SCHOOL 101—an introduction to high school life We approached the Business Tech teachers who were in charge of developing the curriculum and asked for two weeks

Survey the students Think to yourself… Survey the faculty Survey the parents

#1 Library Orientation

#2 Using Destiny, the library catalog, to find books and appropriate websites

#3 Searching databases, including the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) (The AVL is similar to Georgia’s Galileo.)

#4 Evaluating Websites

 How to check out a book  Fines  Circulation policies  Logging in  Printing  Saving documents  ing documents to yourself

This section of the library contains books about the life of Harry Houdini, Jennifer Lopez, and Marquis de LaFayette.  Fiction  Nonfiction  Biography  Reference Nonfiction Biography Reference Nonfiction Biography Reference

Informal, face to face, survey

When students came in to research, we noticed the following habits: 1) The students used databases instead of Google the majority of the time. 2) The students could easily complete searches on the library catalog and find the books they needed on the shelves. 3) We knew most of the students’ names or at least recognized them. 4) The students would approach us with questions about anything, library related or not.

 We forged a strong bond with the business tech teachers.  One of the business tech teachers nominated us for Teacher of the Quarter  We would get to watch the 9 th graders’ information literacy skills progress for the next four years.  Because we knew each 9 th grader had received the same “training,” we had a better feel for how to guide them in the years to come.