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Act Up For Evaluating Sources: Pushing Against Privilege, Dawn Stahura
Act Up For Evaluating Sources: Pushing Against Privilege, Dawn Stahura
Dawn Stahura
Like most librarians, I teach one-shot instruction sessions for numerous departments across campus on myriad topics. Fortunately, most faculty give me the entire class period to go over research techniques and evaluating sources. Prior to 2017, my discussion around evaluating sources happened towards the end of the class period, after I had demoed a few databases and searched the library catalog. This worked until it didn’t anymore. After the 2017 presidential inauguration, faculty and students returned to a more complex classroom climate, accentuated by tension, fear, and sadness.
Because of this new climate, I noticed a change in instruction requests. …