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GIS Librarians' Involvement in Critical Information Literacy Instruction

open access: yesIssues in Science and Technology Librarianship
Critical information literacy (CIL) is a theory and practice that considers the sociopolitical dimensions of information and knowledge production. As the field of geospatial information evolves, equipping librarians with the skills to critically engage ...
Melissa Chomintra, Pete E. Pascuzzi
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Putting Critical Information Literacy into Context: How and Why Librarians Adopt Critical Practices in their Teaching

open access: yesIn 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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Overcoming Challenges to Critical Information Literacy: Primary Source Analysis as Consciousness-Raising

open access: yesPennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2018
Critical information literacy can be described as the application of critical pedagogy, or a theory of learning that endeavors to impact social change, to information literacy.
Julie M. Porterfield
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Merging Critical Thinking and Information Literacy Outcomes - Making Meaning or Making Strategic Partnership? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The following book chapter will look at critical thinking, how librarians perceive its relationship to information literacy, and what useful strategies can result when these two concepts are combined. To set the stage a few of the major psychological and
Schroeder, Robert
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critical information literacy of social workers

open access: yesJournal of Information Literacy, 2023
The aim of this study is to contribute to a pragmatic understanding of critical information literacy (CIL) by positioning it as a context-specific interpersonal practice. Using phenomenography to explore how information work is experienced by social workers in social and health care settings, this paper provides an example of critical information ...
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Critical workplace information literacy

open access: yesJournal of Information Literacy, 2023
In this paper, the author explores the prospect of, and the rationale for, the critical workplace information literacy (CWIL) construct, by situating it at the junction of critical information literacy (CIL) and workplace information literacy (WIL), the two hitherto discrete frameworks and subdomains of information literacy (IL).
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The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Residents in 2020 [PDF]

open access: yesFuture of Medical Education Journal
Background: Information literacy, as a critical skill, is not limited to library-bibliographic skills but it includes analytic-critical thinking skills.
Amir Reza Khajedaluee   +4 more
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Carolyn Gamtso and Patricia Halpin travel to Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In August 2014, we travelled together to Limerick, Republic of Ireland to participate jointly in a panel discussion at the Information Literacy Section Satellite Meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) World Library and ...
Gamtso, Carolyn, Halpin, Patricia A.
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The Evolving Role of Information Literacy in Higher Education: A Case Study

open access: yes, 2006
The desire of librarians at Nyack College, like other academic librarians, is to play a significant role in the development of effective research and critical thinking skills in the community we serve.
Poston, Linda
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Cognitive Status in People With Epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea: A Prospective, Case–Control Study

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective People with epilepsy (PWE) may experience cognitive deficits but fail to undergo formal evaluation. This study compares cognitive status between PWE and healthy controls in the West African Republic of Guinea. Methods A cross‐sectional, case–control study was conducted in sequential recruitment phases (July 2024–July 2025) at Ignace ...
Maya L. Mastick   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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