Critical Literacy for Information Professionals

Critical literacy has become a widely used method of teaching and learning over the past decade. It is a particularly important concept for librarians because it addresses the cultural and social contexts of textual information, and thus meshes well with the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. In this slim volume, editor McNichol (research associate, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK) has collected essays on the topic from an international array of librarians and information professionals. McNicol organized the collection into two parts. The first focuses on different theoretical approaches, while the second explores critical literacy in practice through carefully selected case studies. Subjects include critical literacy in the workplace, social justice and critical literacy, using literacies to discuss disability in the library, and teaching media literacy. The essays are concisely written and easy to parse for details.