Presentation at ACRL 2017

1. Critical Information Literacy and
Service-Learning
For Management Students
Ilana Stonebraker
Business Information
Specialist
Opportunities
Collaborations

2. Management
2
Impetus
“to engage in management, or to
research management, is to commit
to some kind of stance on political
and moral values, such as the
desirability of efficiency or of
productivity or of profitability or,
even, of employee satisfaction and
well-being.
Management, then, is never neutral,
but, at most, purports to be so.”
-Grey, 2004, pg 179

3. Service-Learning
3
Impetus

4. Informed
Decision Making
4
IMPETUS
In classrooms
students make
only individual
decisions that
affect themselves.

5. Where the course
came from
5
IMPETUS
Information literate
zombies
Student that use only
business information to make
only business and career
decisions that affect only
businesses and other
business people.

6. Where the course
came from
6
IMPETUS
If the goal is to make students
more responsible, they need to
understand first that their
decisions hold power, and that
information holds power over
them.

7. Where the course
came from
7
IMPETUS
And if we want the students to
understand that their decisions
have power, we must also give
power to them.

8. Service-Learning
8
Impetus
Student will articulate and
empathize with the diverse
group of struggles the Greater
Lafayette area faces at a local and
global level across economic,
cultural, and administrative
dimensions.
– Students will find, organize, and
evaluate information about the
Greater Lafayette area.
– Students will identify sources to
learn more about problems that
are important to them.

9. Service-Learning
9
Impetus
• MGMT 175: Information
Strategies of Management
Students
• Honors 299 Making Greater
Lafayette Greater

10. What I learned
10
Lessons from Honors
299

11. Critical Librarianship
“strives to examine librarianship through a
critical lens, looking for intersections of
librarian practice and social justice”
(Elmborg 2006).

12. Let’s Talk
• We’re going out to lunch!
• Meet here, tomorrow 11:55, we’re going to
go to lunch and discuss #critlib for
business and professional programs. You
are more than welcome!

13. Thank you!
• Kenny Garcia- Health
• Jessica Jerrit- STEM
• Caitlan Maxwell- Computer Science and
Career/Vocational
• Ilana Stonebraker- Business

14. Service-Learning
14
Impetus
What does it mean to be
an ethical person, and
how does an ethical
person create, locate,
organize, and evaluate
business and
professional
information?