University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Gender and the Politics of Information: Reflections on Bringing the Library into the Classroom

Broidy, Ellen

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Title
Gender and the Politics of Information: Reflections on Bringing the Library into the Classroom
Author(s)
Broidy, Ellen
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
  • Library instruction
  • Information literacy
  • Gender
Abstract
New technologies offering different ways to generate and access information, as well as revolutionary changes in how (and why) we communicate, led to an effort to reconceptualize the nature of library instruction. Combining some key tenets of the information literacy movement with core feminist principles and critical theoretical approaches, two academic librarians created a course designed to explore the changing nature of information and to explode the myth of its neutrality. Through discussion of the development of the initial course proposal, the creation of the syllabus and the structure of the class, a case is presented for altering (and expanding) the role of the librarian in the classroom.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/4578
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Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Owning Collections

Library Trends 56 (2) Fall 2007: Gender Issues in Information Needs and Services PRIMARY
Library Trends 56 (2) Fall 2007: Gender Issues in Information Needs and Services. Edited by Cindy Ingold and Susan E. Searing.