A Phenomenological Study of Conservative Academic Librarians

Kendrick, Kaetrena; Damasco, Ione

doi:10.1080/01639269.2015.1063952

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“…The American Library Association has publicly supported the role of libraries in educating the public about misinformation (American Library Association 2018). Yet some librarians might also be hesitant to intervene in causes perceived as partisan (Kendrick and Damasco 2015). While disinformation refers to purposefully misleading information spread with intent, critical disinformation theorists explain how alternative facts are steeped in historical legacies designed to maintain existing power structures (Kuo and Marwick 2021).…”

Section: The Promising and Challenging Role Librarians Can Play In Co...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Libraries Combating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game

Tripodi¹,

Stevenson²,

Slama³

et al. 2023

The Library Quarterly

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Section: The Promising and Challenging Role Librarians Can Play In Co...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Libraries Combating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game

Tripodi¹,

Stevenson²,

Slama³

et al. 2023

The Library Quarterly

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“…In the current climate of misinformation – in this case, contextualized with scientific misinformation – a strict adherence to the ideals of intellectual freedom needs to be questioned and weighed against other areas of responsibility and expertise. Librarians and other information professionals generally agree and have taken a strong stance about not supporting misinformation, have categorized it as feeling similar to being in an information war, and that the problem of misinformation is a symptom of a deeper problem, though tensions can remain, especially in cultural-specific contexts (Becker, 2017; Kendrick and Damasco, 2015; Neely-Sardon and Tignor, 2018). There is an opportunity to build a deeper understanding of how information literacy training transitions beyond a single instruction session and helps people navigate information in their everyday lives.…”

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confidence: 99%

Navigating complex authorities: Intellectual freedom, information literacy and truth in pandemic STEM information

Mercer

Weaver

Waked³

2021

IFLA Journal

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Traversing scientific information has become increasingly fraught, as the new information landscape allows anyone to access endless information with a few keystrokes. However, those trying to find information, understand authorities and navigate experts need a deeper understanding not only of the information itself, but also of how and why information is shared. Increasingly, questions of expertise, locale and bias are driving the scientific information ecosystem and creating or expanding disinformation, misinformation and propaganda efforts. Librarians are in the centre of this maelstrom of information and are obligated to help people learn to be critical of information. This article presents an illustrative case study, using the example of scientific information around the safety and efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to demonstrate how modern scientific information sharing is shaped by the ways in which misinformation and fake news spread.

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“…This permanence is represented in the varied empirical methods contained within this literature review. Select examples include surveys (Kumasi & Manlove, 2015), interviews (Kendrick & Damasco, 2015), and content analysis (Moreillon, 2015), as well as qualitative, quantitative, and mixed analytical approaches (Butcher & Rose-Adams, 2015;Froggatt, 2015).…”

Section: Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

More than Lip Service

Winberry

2021

IJIDI

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Social justice is increasingly identifiable within library and information science (LIS) research and practice. However, numerous scholars have raised the concern that social justice has been commodified in order to benefit the powerful and therefore the possibility of actual and constructive change has been minimized in numerous cases. In response, this researcher undertook a literature review of self-identified “social justice” research in 2 large academic databases—Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) and Library and Information Science Source (LISS)—in order to identify the types of social justice research in LIS. The result of the review identified 247 records and included results from peer reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings from which a typology of 2 research types (e.g., knowledge and practice) and 8 sub-types (e.g., metatheoretical, theoretical, ideational, methodological, empirical, narrative, professional, and pedagogical) was identified. Identification of this typology is helpful for organizing existing social justice research within LIS, assisting in the examination of connections between theories and methods, and contributing to a broader goal of arguing that social justice is an emerging sub-discipline within LIS. Future research is needed to grow this typology and increase research in areas that remain understudied such as LIS-centered metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological social justice research.

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A Phenomenological Study of Conservative Academic Librarians

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Libraries Combating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game

Libraries Combating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game

Navigating complex authorities: Intellectual freedom, information literacy and truth in pandemic STEM information

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