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Presentation
What's Social Justice got to do with Information Literacy?
Association of College & Research Libraries
(2017)
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.
Keywords
- social justice,
- information literacy,
- library instruction
Disciplines
Publication Date
March 25, 2017
Location
Baltimore, MD
Citation Information
Burgert, L., Brown-Salazar, M., Acosta, E.S., & Garity, J. (2017, March). What's social justice got to do with information literacy? Presentation at the Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Baltimore, MD. Available at: https://works.bepress.com/elisa_acosta/18/