Critical Information Literacy

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Activity 1

Read this paper:

Saunders, L. (2017). Connecting information literacy and social justice: Why and how. Communications in Information Literacy, 11(1), 15.

This author proposes the following frame for consideration. The proposed frame attempts to adhere to the format of the existing ACRL frames, offering a title contextualized by a definition, knowledge practices, and dispositions:

Information Social Justice

Information is created within existing power structures, and those power structures can impact the production and dissemination of information, as well as distort, suppress, or misrepresent information. To understand and use information most effectively, users must be able to examine and interrogate the power structures that impact that information, and analyze the ways that information can be used to both inform and misinform.

According to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education adopted by the ACRL in 2016, knowledge practices, are demonstrations of ways in which learners can increase their understanding of these information literacy concepts, and dispositions describe ways in which to address the affective, attitudinal, or valuing dimension of learning.

Then, answer this matching question exercise

Activity 2

Watch the trailer of Change the Subject (2019), a documentary film about a group of Dartmouth (United States) students who challenged anti-immigrant language in the Library of Congress subject headings.

After that, read this article: 

Lo, Grace (2021). Biases in Law Library Subject Headings. BUL Rev. Online 101, 26

Then, search in the Catalog of Library of Congress and check if the terms “ilegal aliens” or “aliens” still exist.

Finally, answer this question: