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Course Description
LIS 9833 (Summer 2009)
Information Equity
Course Description
This course focuses on issues and critical perspectives surrounding equitable access to information, the relationships between information and social change, and social equity and justice in the information professions. Libraries and information services are framed within larger social, political, cultural, and economic contexts and power structures. Course topics include issues such as the digital divide and information poverty within both North American and global contexts.
This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.