The Florida Curriculum Framework for Language Arts says,

"Students must learn how to locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, manage, and apply information from a variety of sources and media. They must learn how to communicate effectively in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes through many different media."

Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning provides guidelines that schools "can use to foster the active, authentic learning that today's researchers and practitioners recognize as vital to helping students become independent, information literate, lifelong learners."  

Integrating information literacy skills into the curriculum is accomplished not through a separate course of study, but by incorporating these skills into all curriculum areas. Specifically, information literacy skills should be integrated into the student's first introduction to the library media center in preschool or kindergarten and continue through twelfth grade and beyond.

By working together to craft lessons, school library media specialists and teachers combine reading and writing skills, the basic tools of learning, with information literacy skills. Using this approach, students are better prepared to extend and communicate their content area knowledge. In order to facilitate the acquisition of information literacy skills, the use of a research process model is essential. FINDS, Florida's model, consolidates the information literacy skills that are imbedded in the Sunshine State Standards and provides a framework for the application of these standards through a sequential research process.