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Title:
Information literacy and social justice : radical professional praxis / Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins, editors ; foreword by Toni Samek.
Publisher:
Library Juice Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xii, 306 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Information literacy--Social aspects.
Information literacy--Political aspects.
Information literacy--Study and teaching.
Social justice.
Library science--Social aspects.
Library science--Political aspects.
Libraries and society.
Intellectual freedom.
Other Authors:
Gregory, Lua.
Higgins, Shana.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The violence of information literacy : neoliberalism and the human as capital / Nathaniel F. Enright -- The neoliberal library / Maura Seale -- You've got to know and know properly : citizenship in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and the aims of information literacy instruction / Jeff Lilburn -- From "A crusade against ignorance" to a "Crisis of authenticity" : curating information for a participatory democracy / Andrew Battista -- Critical information literacy in the college classroom : exploring scholarly knowledge production through the digital humanities / Andrea Baer -- The tyranny of tradition : how information paradigms limit librarians' teaching and student scholarship / Carrie Donovan and Sara O'Donnell -- The three-credit solution : social justice in an information literacy course / Anne Leonard and Maura A. Smale -- Hip-hop and information literacy : critically incorporating hip-hop in information literacy instruction / Dave Ellenwood -- Forces of oppression in the information landscape : free speech and censorship in the United States / Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins -- Critical legal information literacy : legal information as a social construct / Yasmin Sokkar Harker -- Information power to the people : students and librarians dialoguing about power, social justice, and information / Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh -- Information literacy and service-learning : creating powerful synergies / Christopher A. Sweet -- The public academic library : friction in the teflon funnel / Patti Ryan and Lisa Sloniowski.
Summary:
"Discusses information literacy and its social justice aspects, through a selection of chapters addressing the values of intellectual freedom, social responsibility, and democracy in relation to the sociopolitical context of library work"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1936117568 (paperback)
9781936117567 (paperback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)843124185
LCCN:
2013014281
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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