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 language | American English |
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Number of pages | 32 |
State | Published - Mar 25 2017 |
Event | Association of College Research Libraries - Baltimore, MD Duration: Mar 25 2017 → … |
Conference
Conference | Association of College Research Libraries |
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Period | 3/25/17 → … |
Keywords
- social justice
- information literacy
- library instruction
Disciplines
- Library and Information Science
- Information Literacy