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Information literacy and social justice : radical professional praxis / Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins, editors ; foreword by Toni Samek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samek, Toni, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information literacy--Social aspects.
- Information literacy.
- Information literacy--Political aspects.
- Information literacy--Study and teaching.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sacramento, California : Library Juice Press, 2013.
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-63400-005-6
- OCLC:
- 923214064
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