id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-23618 Greene, Harlan Michèle Valerie Cloonan. The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2018. 280p. Hardcover, $30.00 (ISBN: 978-0-262-03773-0). 2019-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1099 47 45 The first chapter, “Authentic Assessment Defined,” begins provocatively by asking a series of rhetorical questions regarding the current state of library assessment and challenging the profession with the observation that much of what passes for assessment within libraries “tells us very little about the actual learning that takes place in information literacy instruction.” Understanding what students are learning, how they learn, and, more centrally to the concept of authentic assessment, what they are able to do is criti- cal to being an effective educator. cache/crl-23618.pdf txt/crl-23618.txt