Helping High School Students Become ‘College Ready’

Received info about this ALA Annual Meeting event from Mitchel Fontenot:

On Sunday, July 12, immediately following the LIRT Conference Program, “Preparing Yourself to Teach: Touching All the Bases,” there will be an informal brownbag discussion from 12-1:00 sponsored by the LIRT Transitions to College Committee. Discussion will focus on issues, ideas and opportunities for collaborations to help students with the transition from high school to college.

All interested school, public, academic and special librarians are
invited to attend. David Barr, Founding Director of 21CIF (the 21st
Century Information Fluency project in IL), will facilitate the
discussion, which will draw from “Rethinking College Readiness,” by
David T. Conley, in the Spring 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education. The article is available at:

http://www.nebhe.org/info/pdf/nejhe/NEJHE_Spring08.pdf