Eat, Read, Connect and Learn

This month we will transform journal club into a safe space to chat about the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey and its impact on the La Trobe community with some readings to help us support our students and colleagues during this time and beyond it.

Why Social Justice in the Library? by? Margo Gustina and Eli Guinnee
o http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/06/library-services/why-social-justice-in-the-library-outreach-inreach/
NCis a no-go: bathrooms, libraries, and the limits of welcoming by Chris Bourg
o https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/nc-is-a-no-go-bathrooms-libraries-and-the-limits-of-welcoming/
ALIA Next Generation Advisory Committee (NGAC) Response to the Australia Marriage Law Postal Survey
o https://alianewgrads.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/ngac-response-to-the-australia-marriage-law-postal-survey/

Complementary reflections and research by a few La Trobe academics:
•My first time at Equal Love By Carolyn D’Cruz https://overland.org.au/2017/08/my-first-time-at-equal-love-2/
•I can’t stop crying… by Quinn Eades https://www.theliftedbrow.com/liftedbrow/2017/9/7/i-cant-stop-crying-by-quinn-eades
•The postal survey is both bizarre and typical in the history of Western marriage by Timothy Jones https://theconversation.com/the-postal-survey-is-both-bizarre-and-typical-in-the-history-of-western-marriage-83572
•A non-binding poll: how bizarre by Dennis Altman https://overland.org.au/2017/08/a-non-binding-poll-how-bizarre
•Queers against gay marriage: What to do in this postal vote? By Jess Ison http://archermagazine.com.au/2017/09/queers-gay-marriage-postal-vote

*Primary reading*

Another take on information literacy, Bayesian inference, and a possible research agenda by Lane Wilkinson https://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/information-literacy-bayes-and-a-research-agenda

*Complementary resources*

Audio: Explores the decision by the Washington Post to discontinue a newspaper column dedicated to correcting viral misinformation online. (3min)

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/21/460602085/digital-culture-critic-abandons-fake-on-the-internet-column

Article: The challenges facing libraries in an era of fake news by Donald A Barclay https://theconversation.com/the-challenge-facing-libraries-in-an-era-of-fake-news-70828

Scholarly article: If you are feeling super keen, here’s a scholarly article on the topic-

Empowering students to make sense of an information saturated world: the evolution of information searching and analysis by James H. Wittebols http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1103396.pdf

Building on the discussions that came out of Susie’s topic earlier this year, and following the recent Library 2.017 online mini conference on the same, let’s revisit digital literacy and fake news in a post-truth world!

Some questions to think about when reading:

How do we develop critical thinking and evaluating skills? For ourselves? For our students?

What mistakes might we make with regards to digital literacy and how can we fix them?

Where should we be focusing our attention?

Readings:

Thomas P. Mackey & Trudi Jacobson, December 6, 2016, How can we learn to reject fake news in the digital world?, The Conversation.

Sally Pewhairangi, June 22 2017, 6 top experts expose digital literacy mistakes and how to overcome them, Finding Heroes.

 Further reading:

Library 2.017 Digital Literacy and Fake News, June 4, 2017.

In case you missed the online mini-conference, here is the keynote panel. The video is long but a great discussion if you have a bit of time!

Keynote panel, 56 minutes. https://youtu.be/XM2ERlMGpTE?list=PLGvt9IyrGCa50BOxSWn92GROOvUG6kWMx

Peter Holley, (2016) “Why Stephen Hawking believes the next 100 years may be humanity’s toughest test” Washington Post, January 20, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/01/20/why-stephen-hawking-believes-the-next-100-years-may-be-humanitys-toughest-test-yet/?utm_term=.5178ddcfe235
Pauline Dewan, (2012) “Are books becoming extinct in academic libraries?” New Library World, vol. 113, Issue: 1 / 2, pp. 27-37 http://www.emeraldinsight.com.ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/doi/full/10.1108/0307480121119902

 

NMC Horizon Report 2017 Library Edition – Online identities for students and researchers theme, pp. 44-45
https://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2017-library-edition/

The Conversation article “For the first generation to grow up on Facebook, online identities hold both promise and pitfall”: http://theconversation.com/for-the-first-generation-to-grow-up-on-facebook-online-identities-hold-both-promise-and-pitfall-67876

The Times High Education article “Online research: the dangers” here: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/online-research-the-dangers/2019509.article

LinkedIn article “College Student Digital Identity Development” here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/college-student-digital-identity-development-dr-josie-ahlquist

Earlier this year, a number of us were able to attend ALIA Information Online. We were very inspired by one particular keynote presentation by James Neal entitled ‘The 21st century information professional: chaos breeds life!’ and wanted to share it with everyone and find out what you think of it too, so we thought we would recommend this as the primary ‘text’ for journal club this month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3DySleyRMc which happens to fall in Library and Information week!

Additional papers from the conference for those of you who are feeling super keen:
Turning dead space into “ThinkSpace” – Megan O’Brien, University of Sydney
Peer-reviewed paper

Bringing it all together, putting it online: a consistent, strategic and student centred approach to online orientation by Ellen O’Hehir, Laura Honing, Michelle De Aizpurua and Daniel Wee, Monash University
Peer reviewed paper
Unlearnings we screenshot Kate Bunker and Dr Tatum McPherson-Crowie
Paper

Reflections from Clare https://queerbrarian.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/finding-hope-and-community-in-unexpected-places-at-alia-information-online-2017/

Presentation by Steven and Clare: https://www.slideshare.net/StevenPChang/the-academic-library-of-3017-utopia-or-dystopia

Primary readings

Hellman, Eric. (2015). Toward the Post-Privacy Library? American Libraries, 16 June 2015.
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/06/16/toward-the-post-privacy-library/

Thielman, S. (2016). You are not what you read: librarians purge user data to protect privacy. The Guardian, 14 January 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/13/us-library-records-purged-data-privacy

Bonus reading for a more technical perspective:

Breeding, M. (2016). Issues and technologies related to privacy and security. Library Technology Reports, 52(4), 5-12,3.
http://ez.library.latrobe.edu.au/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1793170155?accountid=12001

As library staff we’re completely reliant on technology, from the self-checkout machines that let users borrow without staff to the library search systems used to find and access our collections. But are these systems as benign as they seem?

Come along to this session to discuss our relationships with the tools we use.

Some key readings:

Raine, Lee and Anderson, Janna. (2017, February 8). Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/02/08/code-dependent-pros-and-cons-of-the-algorithm-age/

Hill, Kasmir and Mattu, Suryu. (2018, February 8). The House That Spied on Me.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/02/the-house-that-spied-on-me/

Tay, Aaron. (2017, September 12). Are Search Results in Library Discovery Really More Trust-worthy? Of Predatory Journals & Authority.

https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/are-search-results-in-library-discovery_12.html

Please also enjoy this five-second video, which may sum up your feelings after reading the above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1P-AEaEp8

Article:

Inclusivity, Gestalt Principles, and Plain Language in Document Design by Jennifer Turner: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/accessibility/

Companion pieces:

Web Accessibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEM9Fn9aOG8

#auslibchat Accessibility for a Diverse Community discussion https://alianewgrads.wordpress.com/new-generation-advisory-committee/auslibchat/accessibility-for-a-diverse-community/

The second journal club session was inspired by:

Finding and forming the bold and the fearless: the future of LIS education in Australia by Jaye Weatherburn & Ross Harvey (2016)

We selected an audio-visual companion for the reading which was a podcast featuring Misty De Meo , an English major, archivist, coder and librarian who talks about being a coder in libraries and archives (and an archivist/librarian amongst coders) and seems a little like one of the bold and fearless LIS professionals described by Weatherburn and Harvey Podcast (the first 17 minutes is recommended).
For something even more fun, this video was mentioned in the article.