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Gregory, Lua; Higgins, Shana – Communications in Information Literacy, 2017
Since the publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education," librarians have grappled with the purposes, impact, and meaning of this teaching document for their daily instructional practice, for curriculum development, and for institutional and programmatic…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Social Justice, Library Science, Standards
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Sullivan, Matthew C. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2019
This article surveys the library and information science (LIS) response to the problems of fake news and misinformation from the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the end of 2018, focusing on how librarians and other information professionals in the United States have articulated the problems and the paths forward for combating them.…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Credibility, Information Literacy, Elections
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Blanke, Henry T. – Journal of Information Ethics, 1996
Contends that an entrepreneurial model of librarianship contradicts traditional ideals of free and equal access to information and argues that such a model threatens the future of the library as a vital public sphere of democratic culture. Discusses broad trends of advanced capitalism to provide a context for the critical interpretation of issues…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Capitalism, Criticism, Culture