From standards to frameworks for IL: How the ACRL framework addresses critiques of the standards

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Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 699-717

  Foasberg, Nancy M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84943618814     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: 15307131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2015.0045     Document Type: Article

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6. Other organizations also produce information literacy standards, including the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), and many national library associations. However, many of these standards are based on those of ACRL. See Alejandro Uribe Tirado and Wilson Castaño Muñoz, "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and Their Correlation with the Cycle of Knowledge Generation," LIBER Quarterly 22, 3 (2012): 213-39.
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33. ACRL Framework, "Authority Is Constructed and Contextual," a Frame that reads, in part: "Experts … acknowledge biases that privilege some sources of authority over others, especially in terms of others' worldviews, gender, sexual orientation, and cultural orientations."
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46. My discussion here centers primarily on Rolf Norgaard and James Elmborg, but Heidi Jacobs, Benjamin Harris, and Jeff Purdue, all cited in these notes, also understand information literacy through a rhetorical lens.
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48. Sarah North, "Different Values, Different Skills? A Comparison of Essay Writing by Students from Arts and Science Backgrounds," Studies in Higher Education 30, 5 (2005): 517-33, is a good example of the influence of disciplinary values in writing.
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55. Purdue, "Stories, Not Information," 660.
56. Elmborg, "Critical Information Literacy," 193.
57. Purdue, "Stories, Not Information," 660-61.
58. Norgaard, "Writing Information Literacy," 195.
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68. Lloyd demonstrates the vast differences between academic information literacy and the kinds of information literacy needed in the workplace.
69. Elmborg, "Critical Information Literacy," 194.
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