Practicing Freedom in a Changing World

Talk given at the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians annual conference, 2014. Abstract: What does it mean to be information literate in a world in which “publish” is a button, publishers and authors are suing libraries for sharing too much, and every week brings us new revelations about how the state is collecting and mining our digital lives? What can we do to help our students make sense of their world and prepare them to engage with information after they graduate? We will explore ways to invite students to hack the library and claim it as their own meaning-maker space as we explore the values of libraries – and how those values could change the world for the better. Text available at http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/WAAL.pdf

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27. Image credits
    Wall texture – Dirk Wusternhagen
    Free Ur Soul – Miguel Librero
    Map - Wikimedia Foundation
    Biblioteca Vasconcelos – Ellen Forsyth
    Corrections – Wirth Associates
    Studying – Jenn Vargas
    Bucky – Wikimedia
    Playdough – Dennis Brekke
    Europe from space – NASA
    Piggy banks – Blip
    Social collisions – meemoo
    Twitter web – Yankee in Canada
    Sifting and Winnowing – University of Wisconsin Archives
    Citations – George Williams
    Puppets – Jim McDougall
    Balloon girl – Chris Christian
    

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