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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464523503321

Titolo

Information literacy and social justice : radical professional praxis / / Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins, editors ; foreword by Toni Samek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sacramento, California : , : Library Juice Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-63400-005-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

028.7

Soggetti

Information literacy - Social aspects

Information literacy - Political aspects

Information literacy - Study and teaching

Social justice

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Violence of Information Literacy: Neoliberalism and the Human as Capital""; ""The Neoliberal Library""; ""You've Got to Know and Know Properly:""; ""From A Crusade against Ignorance to a Crisis of Authenticity:""; ""Critical Information Literacy in the College Classroom:""; ""The Tyranny of Tradition:""; ""The Three-Credit Solution: Social Justice in an Information Literacy Course""; ""Forces of Oppression in the Information Landscape:""

""Critical Legal Information Literacy: Legal Information as a Social Construct""""Information Power to the People:""; ""Information Literacy and Service-Learning: Creating Powerful Synergies""; ""The Public Academic Library: Friction in the Teflon Funnel""; ""Contributor's Biographies""; ""Index""