Authors
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Jo-Anne Marion Naslund
University of British Columbia
Abstract
K-12 Benchmarks for Information Literacy were presented in this session by Moira Ekdahl, Teacher-Librarian Consultant for the Vancouver School Board, Executive Member of BCTLA; Michele Farquharson, Teacher-Librarian, Kerrisdale Elementary School, Vancouver & CLA’s Teacher-Librarian of the Year; Julie Robinson, Teacher-Librarian, Hollyburn Elementary, & Co-chair of the District Teacher-Librarian Association; and Lynn Turner, Teacher-Librarian, Thornhill Junior Secondary School, Terrace. Formed in 2008, this committee of teacher-librarians responded to a workshop at BCLA 2007 entitled “Bridging the Gap”.
Author Biography
Jo-Anne Marion Naslund, University of British Columbia
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Jo-Anne Naslund currently works as an Education Librarian in the Education Library at the University of British Columbia. She has worked as a teacher and teacher-librarian in schools in Alberta, British Columbia and Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests focus on information literacy, teacher education, school libraries together with Canadian children's literature and adolescent reading interests. She has authored library publications and taught library courses in teacher-librarianship at the Universities of Melbourne, Alberta and British Columbia. Her educational background is a BA, BEd, MEd. And MLIS.
