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Sweats, Pow Wows, And Indian Tacos: How My Year Out In The Middle Of Nowhere Makes Me A Better Librarian, María Emerson
Sweats, Pow Wows, And Indian Tacos: How My Year Out In The Middle Of Nowhere Makes Me A Better Librarian, María Emerson
Library and Information Science: Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works
A reflection of the author’s work with American Indian students on a reservation, and how they draw on those experiences in their career as an academic librarian. With the diverse demographics that compose the student bodies in universities and colleges, academic librarians are consistently trying to reach and help students from a variety of different backgrounds and levels of academic readiness. It is one of the responsibilities of academic librarians to reach students who are struggling with adjusting to the standards of higher education. By working on the reservation, the author discovered that feelings of safety, support, and representation were …
Post-Facts: Information Literacy And Authority After The 2016 Election, Stefanie Bluemle
Post-Facts: Information Literacy And Authority After The 2016 Election, Stefanie Bluemle
Library and Information Science: Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works
This article addresses the challenge that post-truth politics poses to teaching authority in information literacy. First, it isolates an element of the post-truth phenomenon, an element it calls post-facts, to elucidate why teaching source evaluation is not, by itself, an antidote to fake news or other evidence of Americans’ media illiteracy. Second, it addresses the implications of post-facts politics for the concept of authority as defined by the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, drawing on the work of Patrick Wilson and Max Weber to illustrate which elements of authority librarians must rethink due to recent events.