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Critical librarianship in health sciences libraries: an introduction [PDF]

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2019
The Medical Library Association recently announced its commitment to diversity and inclusion. While this is a positive start, critical librarianship takes the crucial concepts of diversity and inclusion one step further by advocating for social justice ...
Jill Barr-Walker, Claire Sharifi
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Proving the proverbial gadfly: situating the historical and racial context of Southern medical works by Mary Louise Marshall [PDF]

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2021
Health sciences librarianship has historically benefited from avoiding critical conversations around the role of race in the profession, reflected through a select few number of articles on the topic.
Aidy Weeks
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Building a Critical Culture: How Critical Librarianship Falls Short in the Workplace

Communications in Information Literacy, 2020
Critical librarianship, or critlib, has made its way into the mainstream of library and information science through conferences, scholarly publications, social media, and other outlets. Over the past 10 years critical library instruction specifically has
Jennifer A. Ferretti
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Introducing Critical Librarianship to Information Professionals: Using Critical Pedagogy and Critical Information Literacy in an LIS Graduate Course

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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Library collections in the perspective of US “critical librarianship”

Bibliothecae.it, 2023
Questo articolo intende offrire una visione delle collezioni nell’ottica della “biblioteconomia critica”, in inglese Critical librarianship o, abbreviato, CritLib, i cui principi sono stati applicati negli USA a tutte le tipologie di biblioteche e a ...
Francesco Giuseppe Meliti
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Critical Pedagogies and Critical Information Literacy in STEM librarianship: A Literature Review

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
In contrast to the traditional library instruction aim of finding and evaluating information, critical library pedagogies aim to teach students to analyze and challenge the power structures that determine what kind of information is deemed valuable ...
Cay del Junco
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The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship: A Critical Approach

Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2016
Michael Quinn Dudley
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Epistemicide Beyond Borders

The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2023
This conceptual research examines epistemic injustices in library and information science (LIS) due to the power imbalance between Western and non-Western LIS curricula, theory, and practice.
Jieun Yeon, Melissa Smith, Tyler Youngman, Beth Patin   +3 more
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Public Libraries as Agonistic Spaces

Libellarium: Journal for the Research of Writing, Books, and Cultural Heritage Institutions, 2021
The paper deals with the possibilities of engaged interdisciplinary activity implemented at the crossroads of librarianship and contemporary art practices.
Irena Bekić, Petra Dolanjski
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A Review of Critical Thinking Training in Librarianship, Knowledge, and Information Science [PDF]

Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2022
Critical thinking, an important construct in the educational dimension, is an active process which uses a specific set of skills and enables one to make appropriate decisions and discriminate between information received.
Sima Esmaeilzad Hojbi, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani, Atefeh Zarei, Seyed Aliakbar Familrouhany   +3 more
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