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Course Description
LIS 9170L-650 (Summer 2021)
Special Topic: Critical Librarianship
Course Description
An overview of critlib, or critical approaches, to professional practice to advance social justice in LIS. Examination of critical perspectives and theory in LIS and the ways they inform policy and practice in areas such as cataloguing and classification, information literacy, information and user services, scholarly communication and open access, technology, and library administration.
This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.