The "social justice warrior" mentality is even moving into the field of bibliographic at academic libraries. Last year's annual Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX) conference featured a work shop presentation on the "Promise of Critical Information Literacy in Library Instruction." The presentation focuses on how libraries participate in white-supremacist capitalist, patriarchal and imperialist oppression and how teaching librarians can fight back. Workshop attendees will learn to
- describe ways that academic librarians have incorporated critical information literacy into their instruction;
- articulate challenges faced in actualizing your own ideal instruction, including how barriers to such instruction might be dismantled
The presentation can be read in PDF form by clicking here. It's easy reading that outlines the mindset of social justice warrior librarians and includes a bibliography of writings in the field.