Something to remember

Reidling quotes the American Library Association's definition of information literate individuals,  "...people who have learned how to learn.  They know how to learn because they know how knowledge is organized, how to find information... These people are prepared for lifelong learning." 

As a teacher-librarian, I am constantly working not to answer students' questions but to ask them questions in return that will help them discover how to figure out the answer themselves.  Once they learn that they can do this, I have noticed that they will often use the knowledge they attained from their last discovery and apply it to figuring out the answers to new questions.  Fabulous!