Posts Tagged ‘critical librarianship’
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Against medicine: Constructing a queer-feminist community health informatics and librarianship
2019–09–04 | 1 commentTags: community health informatics, critical librarianship, gender diversity, health, informatics, queer theoryIn Brief Community health informatics (CHI) is rapidly developing as a field of library practice but remains constrained by unexamined definitions of “community”, “health”, and “informatics” as separate and unified terms. This is further complicated by a failure to situate libraries within a history of institutional oppression which continues to work itself out in the…
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We Used Problem-Based Learning in Library Instruction and Came to Question Its Treatment of Students
2017–08–09 | 3 commentsTags: banking concept, critical librarianship, critical pedagogy, group work, Problem-Based Learning, student centeredIn Brief: Two instruction librarians at a medium-sized liberal-arts college on the East Coast of the United States replaced their lecture-style teaching with Problem-Based Learning (PBL). They collaborated with two English instructors to bring PBL to a two-session sequence of library instruction. However, the more they used PBL, and the more they read about how…
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Beyond the Threshold: Conformity, Resistance, and the ACRL Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education
2015–02–25 | 11 commentsTags: ACRL Framework, critical information literacy, critical librarianship, information literacy, neoliberalismThrowback Thursday for July 16, 2015: In the Library with the Lead Pipe welcomes Ian Beilin to our Editorial Board! In honor of Throwback Thursday, we’re highlighting Ian’s recent piece on the ACRL Framework. In Brief: The recently adopted ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education has generated much critique and discussion, including…