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The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What?
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This piece examines the parallels between one-shot library instruction and one-off equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) workshops. Library and Information Science/Studies (LIS) as a field problematically frames both information literacy and EDI as add-ons or afterthoughts to the work of library and information workers. This framing tells on itself when the field/profession turns to one-shots, one-off EDI workshops, or other band aid solutions to larger systemic and structural issues. Without actually “solving” anything, these types of neoliberal solutions become part of what enables and extends white supremacy’s hold on LIS (Hudson, 2017; Leung & López-McKnight, 2021). What are we hoping to accomplish with the one-shot? What are we hoping to accomplish toward and with information literacy and EDI? In other words, what’s the point of information literacy and EDI?
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“these efforts often lack the ability to move learning, workplaces and the field forward in larger ways (Leung, 2022).”
From Two decades of critical information literacy: a review and analysis of the literature (2025) · cites this paper as Leung, 2022
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Metadata
- Authors
- Leung, S.
- Corresponding author
- Leung, Sofia
- Venue
- College & Research Libraries
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 2022
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 0010-0870 (ISSN-L)
- 2150-6701
- OpenAlex
- W4294281108
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 10.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- College & Research Libraries (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- McKnight Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Information Science and Libraries
- Keywords
- information literacy, diversity, equity, and inclusion, one-shot library instruction, neoliberalism, white supremacy, library and information science profession
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