PDFGRE1 | http://libraryjicepress.com/ | This unmatched monograph about information literacy and social justice, with its activist imperative, is inspired by two world-class educators: Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux. That fact in itself is a recipe for admirable intention. Most importantly, though, the editors deliver an excellent book. This is a victory volume, a text I have been waiting to read for a very long time. In other words, Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis is long overdue. Co-editors and practitioners Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins are most modest in their introduction. Because they have actually produced a genius four-part orientation to how information literacy significantly improves upon the way it has been defined and even confined by the many normative information literacy model makers, functionalists, and minders to date. | Our deliberate instruction in this work comes in four challenging lessons:

(1) Information Literacy in the Service of Neoliberalism,
(2) ChallengingAuthority,
(3) Liberatory Praxis, and
(4) Community Engagement |

As the editors explain, the chapters serve to illustrate how “critical information literacy differs from standard definitions of information literacy (ex: the ability to find, use, and analyze information) in that it takes into consideration the social, political, economic and corporate systems that have power and influence over information production, dissemination, access, and consumption.” | The co-editors suggest the following four purposes of this book: to apply critical librarianship to classroom practice “in a concerted effort to further critical information literacy praxis,” to provide concrete examples of our labor as social justice work, to expose “library/librarian neutrality in relation to the context of information production, dissemination, and manipulation and to recognize the social, economic, political and corporate forces and ideologies at play in information flows,” and to recognize our being in our doing. The latter purpose is the meta-message that has the potential to impact the reader at the personal-professional level. If we read this book flatly, we won’t see how we are in it, as the “information literate,” constructed neoliberal subject that Enright describes. If we read this book inside out and upside down, we can see how carefully it crafts a picture of the true price of that loss. Those who engage with this text won’t get smarter (most of us don’t). But they just might see information literacy more clearly for what it has been, what it has the potential to be, and how and what they, as people, might be while performing it |

Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi

Introduction
-- Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins 1
Information Literacy in the Service of Neoliberalism
The Violence of Information Literacy: Neoliberalism and the Human as Capital
--Nathaniel F. Enright 15
The Neoliberal Library
-- Maura Seale 39
“You’ve Got to Know and Know Properly”: Citizenship in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let
Me Go and the Aims of Information Literacy Instruction
-- Jeff Lilburn 63

Challenging Authority

From “A Crusade against Ignorance” to a “Crisis of Authenticity”: Curating Information
for a Participatory Democracy
-- Andrew Battista 81
Critical Information Literacy in the College Classroom: Exploring Scholarly Knowledge
Production through the Digital Humanities
-- Andrea Baer 99
The Tyranny of Tradition: How Information Paradigms Limit Librarians’ Teaching
and Student Scholarship
-- Carrie Donovan and Sara O’Donnell 121
Liberatory Praxis: Students and Teachers as Co-Learners
The Three-Credit Solution: Social Justice in an Information Literacy Course
-- Anne Leonard and Maura A. Smale 143
Hip-Hop and Information Literacy: Critically Incorporating Hip-Hop in Information Literacy Instruction
-- Dave Ellenwood 163
Forces of Oppression in the Information Landscape: Free Speech and Censorship in the United States
-- Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins 185
Critical Legal Information Literacy: Legal Information as a Social Construct
-- Yasmin Sokkar Harker 205

Community Engagement as Social Change

Information – Power to the People: Students and Librarians Dialoguing about Power, Social Justice, and Information
-- Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh 219
Information Literacy and Service-Learning: Creating Powerful Synergies
-- Christopher A. Sweet 247
The Public Academic Library: Friction in the Teflon Funnel
-- Patti Ryan
-- Lisa Sloniowski 275

Contributor’s Biographies 297
Index 301

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I'm really glad I got around to reading this. We only briefly touched on critical information literacy in class and I had trouble finding more information on it, so this was invaluable for my understanding. ( )