What's Social Justice got to do with Information Literacy?

Lisa Burgert, Margaret Brown-Salazar, Elisa Slater Acosta, Joe Garity

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Abstract

Social justice is a critical component of information literacy (IL). As librarians we have an obligation to critique the power structures that control information. Instruction librarians at four medium to large, private, Catholic institutions; collaborated to develop IL instruction grounded in social justice. The project involved applying a social justice construct to IL; creating lesson plans and instructional strategies; assessment; and sharing lessons in an open access database.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages32
StatePublished - Mar 25 2017
EventAssociation of College Research Libraries - Baltimore, MD
Duration: Mar 25 2017 → …

Conference

ConferenceAssociation of College Research Libraries
Period3/25/17 → …

Keywords

  • social justice
  • information literacy
  • library instruction

Disciplines

  • Library and Information Science
  • Information Literacy

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