Inskip, C;
(2014)
Whitworth, A. 2014. Radical information literacy:
reclaiming the political heart of the IL movement.
Oxford: Chandos. 233 pp. ISBN: 9781843347484. £47.50.
Pbk.
[Review].
Journal of Information Literacy
, 8
(2)
pp. 167-168.
10.11645/8.2.1957.
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Abstract
The continual gathering of momentum of the library and information professions’ wholesale adoption of information literacy (IL) is, in many ways, a good thing. It provides us with an additional raison d’etre, a new unique selling point, and reinforces the idea of a user-centred focus. It means that increasing numbers of patrons / customers / users, call them what you will, are benefiting from the outcomes of many very detailed conversations and research projects. They are more likely to engage creatively with the information that may otherwise overload them. They have access to rich and varied insights which have been encouraged through IL interventions administered by an experienced information professional. All good, right?
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Whitworth, A. 2014. Radical information literacy: reclaiming the political heart of the IL movement. Oxford: Chandos. 233 pp. ISBN: 9781843347484. £47.50. Pbk |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.11645/8.2.1957 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/8.2.1957 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Charles Inskip 2014. This is an Open Access article published under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457878 |
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