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Publication Date: 2020
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Critical Library Instruction, Causing Trouble, and Institutionalization
Seale, Maura
Communications in Information Literacy, v14 n1 Article 6 p75-85 2020
This essay considers the institutionalization of critical library instruction in the decade since the publication of "Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods." Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed and Rod Ferguson, I suggest that because library instruction is marginalized within librarianship, critical library instruction can and has become institutionalized within the profession. The institutionalization of critical library instruction represents the management of the wider-ranging and more troublesome critiques of critical librarianship. The marginality of critical library instruction, however, means that it continues to function as a site of troublemaking.
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Critical Theory, Institutional Characteristics, Activism, Information Literacy, Librarians, Academic Libraries, Racial Bias, Neoliberalism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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