The Public Education Network (PEN) is a nonprofit organization that creates systems of public education that result in high achievement for every child. PEN works with local education funds to educate the nation about the relationship between school quality and the quality of community and public life. PEN administered the Library Power program in 19 communities nationwide. The American Association ... Read moreof School Libraries (AASL), a division of the American Library Association, is the leading professional organization for school library media specialists with the mission to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library media field. AASL is the co-author of Information Power and co-developer of the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning. Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Ph.D., is assistant professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. Before joining Drexel's faculty in 1998, she served as director of the Philadelphia Library Power Project. Anne Wheelock is an independent writer, researcher, and policy analyst based in Boston, Massachusetts. As a case study writer for the University of Wisconsin's National Program Evaluation of Library Power, she documented the implementation of Library Power practices at the school and district level. Show Less