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Professional Reading.(Librarians, Literacy and the Promotion of Gender Equity)(Book review)
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Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's StudiesResources
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December 22, 2008
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Lesley S. J. Farmer, LIBRARIANS, LITERACY AND THE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUITY. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 182p. $45.00, ISBN 978-0786423446.
In 1989, shortly after the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy issued its final report, (1) which transformed the mission of many school and academic library instruction programs, I attended a meeting of a faculty committee for undergraduate education to advocate for the integration of information literacy into the freshman curriculum here at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. At one point early in my presentation, I heard a faculty member groan and say--only slightly sotto voce--"Oh God! Not another literacy!" I ...
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