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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
--Audre Lorde
The best thing to me in attending discussions about pedagogy is realizing new ways to approach issues in my own library. Beyond just my notes below, I also scribbled a few things for myself to try out in the classroom after the event (which means I think this event was a success!).
2011 LACUNY Instruction Committee Spring Event
Critical Information Literacy: The Challenge of Practice
James Elmborg
Associate Professor/Program Director - School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
April 22 10:00am-1:00pm
CUNY Graduate Center - Skylight Room (9100)
James Elmborg has written extensively about how information literacy fits into the context of general education and the development of college students. Elmborg’s work is highly interdisciplinary drawing from critical literary theory, new media literacy, rhetoric, and composition. For several years he has led a program in which graduate students work as digital librarians with the University of Iowa’s renowned International Writing Program.
In his presentation Professor Elmborg will define critical information literacy and explore the challenges of applying its theoretical insights in day-to-day practice. Following his keynote address participants will be asked to join small breakout discussions on a variety of themes related to the keynote.
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Lots of upcoming news and events for the Spring semester, most notably:
I'll be speaking with Matthew Goins at two upcoming events about eBooks and readers' rights:
I'll be participating in ACRL's Immersion Teacher Track program this Summer in Burlington, Vermont. I wrote in my application that I am
interested to examine how critical pedagogy fits into library instruction, so I am excited to see how this can be discussed within the larger frameworks of the program. I'm also excited to get the chance to focus on teaching for a bit and to share what I learn with my colleagues.
And finally, I am really excited to be a part of the upcoming Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America's Library History Seminar XII: Libraries in the History of Print Culture. I can't wait to hear Janice Radway speak and to spend some time in Madison talking about print culture (whilst also enjoying some New Glarus!).
Library Association of CUNY Instruction Committee Spring Event "Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction"
Saturday, May *8*, 2010
Brooklyn College Library
1:00pm-4:00pm
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by April 9th via the webform at: http://tinyurl.com/ycj239j
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*Or maybe that should be Animals being (Moby) Dicks?... Now somebody's gotta make a GIF...
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, through many there be who have tried it."*
(you couldn't tell our tale on a flea either--working on chapter XVIII)
