Re-Framing Information Literacy for Social Justice

The Social Mission of Academic Libraries in Higher Education

“…Critlib proponents argue the profession must take a stronger stance on issues such as social justice, antiracism and decolonisation by embedding such values into every area of academic libraries including instruction and IL. Critics of the 2000 IL Standards acknowledge the 2016 Framework incorporates more critical perspectives, but some argue it is still not fit for purpose and have called for explicit integration of information social justice and antiracist information literacy into the Framework(Rapchak 2019;Saunders 2016). Librarians have also responded to the global movement to decolonise HE by using critical race theory to audit and review academic reading lists(Crilly, Panesar & Suka-Bill 2020) and to develop academic skills and IL workshops on Decolonising Research Methods and Open Access for Resistance Researching(Clarke 2020).…”