Teaching Children to Be Responsible Consumers of Information: The Essentials

Join us on Wednesday, March 20 @ 6pm EST for an informative conversation with librarian, lecturer and educator, Lisa Manganello as she shares her thoughts about how to prepare students to be consumers of information. Lisa has been a librarian at South Brunswick High School for the past seventeen years, where she was recognized as Educator of the Year in 2015. An active member of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, Lisa presents regularly on information literacy. Recent presentations include Now What?: Information Literacy Lessons for the High School Library, Diverse Readers, Diverse Books: New Titles to Build a Culture of Reading, and Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Information Literacy with your Librarian.  In January 2024, she published an article titled “Information Literacy begins in your school library” in NJEA Review Magazine.

Partnering with Dr. Joyce Valenza, Professor of Information Science at Rutgers University, Lisa helped to develop the New Jersey Open Library Tour (NJOLT) to give pre-service and practicing librarians opportunities to visit and learn from their colleagues throughout the state. She is passionate about sharing her information literacy lessons with other educators and spotlighting the value of school librarians. Lisa’s work with media literacy has been featured in reports on NBC and CNN.