Civic Action and the Library

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Civic Action and the Library, a CLASP talk given at Winona State University on March 26, 2014.

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Civic Action and the Library

Tammi OwensEmerging Services LibrarianWinona State UniversityDarrell W. Krueger Library

CLASP Lecture SeriesMarch 26, 2014

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Libraries

Connect thinkers & doers with ideas using collections, spaces, and people.

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Must strive to provide strength to our communities.

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Information literate

Being able to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.”

Information literacy combines a repertoire of abilities, practices, and dispositions focused on expanding one’s understanding of the information ecosystem, with the proficiencies of finding, using and analyzing information, scholarship, and data to answer questions, develop new ones, and create new knowledge, through ethical participation in communities of learning and scholarship.

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