Abstract
The new national guidelines for the school library media field offer challenges for graduate library and information science (LIS) programs as well as for school library media programs at the K-12 level. Preparation programs that accept the mandate of Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning must take clear steps to ensure that their curricular content and instructional practices reflect the philosophical and practical approaches embodied in the document. To prepare the kind of personnel required to implement the complex and multifaceted roles described there, LIS and other programs that educate school library media specialists (LMSs) must examine their current offerings and update and revise them as necessary to align with the concepts and strategies of the new guidelines. As a first step in this process, the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland held a one-day invitational conference to gather data to inform the review and potential restructuring of the college's school library media program. This paper describes the conference itself, the analysis of the data it generated, the results of that analysis, and the implications of those results for school library media preparation programs in general.
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