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Open Access, Scholarly Communications, And Digital Commons, Damecia Donahue, Joshua Neds-Fox Apr 2013

Open Access, Scholarly Communications, And Digital Commons, Damecia Donahue, Joshua Neds-Fox

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Presentation to faculty in Wayne State University's (WSU) College of Education about Open Access Initiatives at WSU, and how to participate in Green OA as a matter of course in research and publication.


Examining The Hidden Ideologies Within Cultural Competence Discourses Among Library And Information Science (Lis) Students: Implications For School Library Pedagogy, Kafi D. Kumasi, Renee F. Hill Jan 2013

Examining The Hidden Ideologies Within Cultural Competence Discourses Among Library And Information Science (Lis) Students: Implications For School Library Pedagogy, Kafi D. Kumasi, Renee F. Hill

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

In order to provide culturally responsive instruction to all students, school library professionals need to recognize the various discourses around cultural competence that exist in the field of library and information science (LIS) and understand the broader meanings that are attached to these discourses. This study presents an evaluation of the underlying ideologies that are embedded in the textual responses of a group of LIS students reporting on their perceived levels of cultural competence preparation. The results reveal that there are dominant and competing discourses around cultural competence in the LIS field, which are important to make visible. The paper …