Open AccessACT UP for evaluating sources: Pushing against privilege
Author(s) -
Dawn Stahura
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.79.10.551
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , presidential system , period (music) , class (philosophy) , library instruction , sadness , psychology , computer science , political science , library science , information literacy , computer security , social psychology , law , art , anger , artificial intelligence , politics , aesthetics
Like most librarians, I teach one-shot instruction sessions for numerous departments across campus on myriad topics. Fortunately, most faculty give me the entire class period to go over research techniques and evaluating sources. Prior to 2017, my discussion around evaluating sources happened towards the end of the class period, after I had demoed a few databases and searched the library catalog. This worked until it didn’t anymore. After the 2017 presidential inauguration, faculty and students returned to a more complex classroom climate, accentuated by tension, fear, and sadness.