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Questioning Authority: Standard Three & the
Critical Classroom
Emily Drabinski Jenna Freedman Lia Friedman @edrabinski @barnlib @piebrarian
The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.
Performance Indicators:
2. The information literate student articulates and applies initial criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources.
Outcomes Include:
A. Examines and compares information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view or bias
B. Analyzes the structure and logic of supporting arguments or methods
C. Recognizes prejudice, deception, or manipulation
D. Recognizes the cultural, physical, or other context within which the information was created and understands the impact of context on interpreting the information
• Western-centric
• A Procrustean bed
• Imagine knowledge production as procedural and politically neutral
• Reinforce socioeconomic hierarchies
• Foreclose interrogation of the meaning of information and literacy
Critiques of Competency Standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:STUDENT
Liberate LCSH: Empowering Non-Catalogers to Improve
Catalog Access Points
Presented at Questioning Authority: Standard Three and the Critical Classroom
by Jenna Freedman ACRL, April 2013
WHY
• Who nominates headings?• Who approves them?• What’s the big deal?• Selections• Assignments
READ (five minutes?)
• Zine: Coloring Outside the Lines issuu.com/decolonizingeducation/docs/coloring_outside_the_lines
• Book: Fat? So amazon.com/FAT-SO-Because-Dont-Apologize/dp/0898159954
• Web: NYCLU Stop & Frisk nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices
Brainstorm LCSH to Describe Your Text
• http://id.loc.gov• http://catalog.loc.gov• http://worldcat.org • http://librarything.com• http://www.goodreads.com (navigate to
shelves)
Suggest Terminology
• loc.gov/aba/pcc/prop/proposal.html• loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/sacogenfaq.html• lowereastsidelibrarian.info/search/node/sugg
est%20terminology• is.gd/acrl_lcsh • radicalreference.info/lcsh/2008/blog-a-thon
Contacts & credits• http://zines.barnard.edu• [email protected]• @barnlib• http://lowereastsidelibrarian.info/talks/2013/acrl
• Barnard Zine Library banner section of Rock Out: Ideas on Booking DIY Shows zine cover. Used with permission.
