Information Literacy

Answer: QUESTION: notable radical/progressive librarians

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There have already been a lot of terrific suggestions in the comments for this question. A couple additional sources that might be useful include Library Journal's Movers and Shakers awards, for which they've compiled a geographic report from 2002 to 2011. For additional suggestions specific to information literacy, you might get in touch with ALA's Information Literacy and Instruction list serv.

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Call for proposals! Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection)

Working title:
Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection)

Editors:
Shana Higgins and Lua Gregory are instruction and reference librarians at the University of Redlands.

Outline:
In her award winning essay “Information Literacy and Reflective Pedagogical Praxis,” Heidi L.M. Jacobs draws out the inherent democratizing and social justice elements of information literacy as defined in the “Alexandria Proclamation On Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning.” She suggests that because of these underlying social justice elements, information literacy “is not only educational but also inherently political, cultural, and social” (258). We propose to extend the discussion of information literacy and its social justice aspects that James Elmborg, Cushla Kapitzke, Maria T. Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier, and Maura Smale have begun.

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