Month: May 2022

Please complete this form if you are interested in serving as the Chair of SILC or serving on the SILC committee. If you have any questions, please email Brandon West at westb@geneseo.edu. SILC will review candidates and let you know our decision.

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SILC will not be holding any events over the summer months, so we wanted to share what they are planning to read (and watch) over the summer. If you feel inspired to write a blog post that reviews or applies concepts from one of the readings/viewings, contact one of the committee members through email.

Brandon’s List

• • “Source Evaluation: Supporting Undergraduate Student Research Development”
  • “Student Educators as Facilitators of Learning: A Model for Peer Education in Academic Library Instruction” 
  • “Dismantling The Evaluation Framework” 
  • “Diversify Your Lesson Plans: De-Centering Whiteness in Library Instruction” 
  • “Crafting the Perfect Blend: Student Cognitive Development Theory and Threshold Concepts for Student Success” 

Megan’s List

• • Weapons of Math Destruction (Binghamton’s 2022 Common Read book) 
  • Algorithms of Oppression
  • Remember 
  • Brooklyn Information Literacy Instruction for Library Professionals 

Don’s List

• • “Calling Bulls***: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World” 
  • “Combating fake news, disinformation, and misinformation: Experimental evidence for media literacy education”
  • “Information Literacy: Concepts and Teaching Strategies”

Becky’s List

• • “What Role Do You Play? Faculty Perceptions of Librarian-led Information Literacy Instruction” 
  • Ethnic Studies in Academic and Research Libraries, including a section on Instruction, Liaison Engagement, and Outreach
  • “Instruction for Educators: Companion Document to the ACRL Framework” 

Holly’s List

• • Anything by John Buschman, particularly:

• • • • The Public Sphere Without Democracy: Some Recent Work in LIS

• • • • Once More Unto the Breach: “Overcoming Epistemology” and Librarianship’s de facto Deweyan Pragmatism

• • • • Education, the Public Sphere, and Neoliberalism: Libraries’ Contexts

• • Hicks, Alison, and Annemaree Lloyd. “Deconstructing Information Literacy Discourse: Peeling Back the Layers in Higher Education.” Journal of librarianship and information science 53, no. 4 (2021): 559–571.

• • Facing Our Computers: Algorithmic Literacies as Praxis – Miriam E. Sweeney

(Keynote address @ DuPage University’s 2022 Information Literacy Summit)

• • The Four by Scott Galloway

• • The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid 

Fatoma’s List

• • Evaluation Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning

• • Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3

• • Modular Online Learning Design: A Flexible Approach for Diverse Learning Needs

• • Research is Not a Basic Skill: Using the Contextual Nature of Research to Transform Information Literacy Instruction