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It's Not a Competition: Questioning the Rhetoric of "Scholarly Versus Popular" in Library Instruction

Presentation. Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium, February 25-26, 2016, The University of Arizona. / Academic instruction librarians often introduce students to the concept of evaluating information by having them compare “scholarly versus popular” sources--an approach that wrongly implies these two kinds of information are a binary, and that they are in competition with one another. This presentation will question the motivations behind presenting scholarly and popular information in this way, as well as offer recommendations for how librarians can adapt this activity into something which allows for critical discussions of context and authority in the classroom.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607784
Date02 1900
CreatorsSeeber, Kevin Patrick
ContributorsUniversity of Colorado Denver
PublisherThe University of Arizona
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeProceedings
RightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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