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ERIC Number: EJ1359002
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0010-0870
EISSN: EISSN-2150-6701
The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What?
Leung, Sofia
College & Research Libraries, v83 n5 p751-764 Sep 2022
This piece examines the parallels between one-shot library instruction and one-off equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) workshops. Library and Information Science/Studies (LIS) as a field problematically frames both information literacy and EDI as add-ons or afterthoughts to the work of library and information workers. This framing tells on itself when the field/profession turns to one-shots, one-off EDI workshops, or other band aid solutions to larger systemic and structural issues. Without actually "solving" anything, these types of neoliberal solutions become part of what enables and extends white supremacy's hold on LIS (Hudson, 2017; Leung & López-McKnight, 2021). What are we hoping to accomplish with the one-shot? What are we hoping to accomplish toward and with information literacy and EDI? In other words, what's the point of information literacy and EDI?
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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