Information literacy and social justice : radical professional praxis

Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis extends the discussion of information literacy and its social justice aspects begun by James Elmborg, Heidi L.M. Jacobs, Cushla Kapitzke, Maria T. Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier, and Maura Seale. Chapters address the democratizing values implicit in librarianship's professional ethics, such as intellectual freedom, social responsibility, and democracy, in relation to the sociopolitical context of information literacy. Contributors, ranging from practicing librarians to scholars of related disciplines, demonstrate how they construct intentional connections between theoretical perspectives and professional advocacy to curriculum and pedagogy. The book contributes to professional discourse on libraries in their social context, through a re-activation of the library neutrality debate, as well as through an investigation of what it means for a global citizen to be information literate in late capitalism.

The violence of information literacy : neoliberalism and the human as capital / Nathaniel F. Enright -- The neoliberal library / Maura Seale -- You've got to know and know properly : citizenship in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and the aims of information literacy instruction / Jeff Lilburn -- From "A crusade against ignorance" to a "Crisis of authenticity" : curating information for a participatory democracy / Andrew Battista -- Critical information literacy in the college classroom : exploring scholarly knowledge production through the digital humanities / Andrea Baer -- The tyranny of tradition : how information paradigms limit librarians' teaching and student scholarship / Carrie Donovan and Sara O'Donnell -- The three-credit solution : social justice in an information literacy course / Anne Leonard and Maura A. Smale -- Hip-hop and information literacy : critically incorporating hip-hop in information literacy instruction / Dave Ellenwood -- Forces of oppression in the information landscape : free speech and censorship in the United States / Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins -- Critical legal information literacy : legal information as a social construct / Yasmin Sokkar Harker -- Information power to the people : students and librarians dialoguing about power, social justice, and information / Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh -- Information literacy and service-learning : creating powerful synergies / Christopher A. Sweet -- The public academic library : friction in the teflon funnel / Patti Ryan and Lisa Sloniowski.