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            Shawnee State University’s Clark Memorial Library Director Connie Salyers Stoner and Reference Librarian Mary E. Cummings sat in the comfort of the library on Tuesday, Feb. 2 to present a program to Manchester High School students in Adams County, using Web technology, along with Louis Mays, Southern State Community College librarian and Ted Gifford, MHS librarian.
            MHS senior seminar students, who plan to attend SSU, were connected to a live online Web-based platform, Wimba, provided by Southern State Community College. The program was “Preparing High School Students to Transition to College: Using Web-Based Technology in the Library.”
            “This was a live collaborative demo session about information literacy and what it takes to transition to an academic program,” Stoner said.
            The high school students conducted sample searches using an InfOHIO online database on their computers guided by Cummings.
            “The session was designed to show how the Ohio Academic Content Standards Research benchmarks and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education are utilized,” Cummings said.
            The bibliography of resources shared with the audience at the eTech conference included a link to the American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st century learner and to the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
            Cummings and Stoner have promoted information literacy since the American Library Association initiated it 1989. The Clark Memorial Library instructional service integrated information literacy standards before they were officially adopted by ACRL.
            Both librarians have been program leaders for information literacy sessions for state and national library meetings.