In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2016 In Brief Critical information literacy asks librarians to work with their patrons and communities to co-investigate the political, social, and economic dimensions of information, including its creation, access, and use.
Eamon Tewell
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Introducing Critical Librarianship to Information Professionals: Using Critical Pedagogy and Critical Information Literacy in an LIS Graduate Course [PDF]
Communications in Information Literacy, 2021 Critical librarianship, which critiques the role of libraries and information professionals in maintaining systems of oppression, has been growing in popularity in the profession, and instructors in Library and Information Science (LIS) have begun to ...
Marcia Rapchak
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A Decade of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature
Communications in Information Literacy, 2015 As information literacy continues in its centrality to many academic libraries' missions, a line of inquiry has developed in response to ACRL's charge to develop information literate citizens.
Eamon Tewell
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Reimagining Critical Information Literacy as Creative Resistance
Canadian Journal of Academic LibrarianshipDrawing on the work of critical pedagogy scholars Paula Allman and Henry Giroux, this paper argues that reimagining information literacy as a critical epistemology requires a theory of learning capable of countering both the economic rationality and ...
Kyle Feenstra
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Critical information literacy as a form of information activism
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2023 This work has been funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. Research project “Information literacy to combat hate speech in Compulsory Secondary Education and Further Education”. Reference PID2021-125420OB-I00.
Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró +2 more
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From critical information literacy to a critical theory of information
The International Review of Information Ethics, 2021 In addition to proposing a reflective and revisionist analysis of information literacy conventions and institutional norms, critical information literacy studies assume a practical commitment to engage in the struggle against the power structures that support the dominant production and dissemination of information, creating obstacles to autonomy and ...
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Information literacy education in the UK: reflections on perspectives and practical approaches of curricular integration [PDF]
, 2008 This paper has two main aims, to present the current position of information literacy education in UK-based academic institutions and to propose a strategy that ensures the integration of this phenomenon in learning and teaching institutional practices ...
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Exploring value as a dimension of professional information literacy [PDF]
, 2019 This study presents a critical exploration of one of the ACRL Frameworkconcepts by examining it in the context of professional practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with health and human service professionals at a community health centre to
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The Library Language Game: Information Literacy through the Lens of Wittgenstein's Language Games
Communications in Information Literacy, 2021 Labeling information is a precarious and risky enterprise. Catalogers have the task of fitting unique concepts within established and rigid language frameworks while also minimizing personal bias.
Kathleen A Langan
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School libraries, political information and information literacy provision : findings from a Scottish study [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents the findings of research which explored Scottish school libraries’ information provision and information literacy support in the run-up to two major political events: the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum (SIR) and the 2015 ...
Smith, Lauren N., Smith, Lauren
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