PLO 2: Library & Information Studies Ethics, Issues, & Trends

Students will, within appropriate institutional, organizational, or professional constructs, be ready to debate local, national, and global information issues and policies in a cross-disciplinary, analog, or digital context that includes, but is not limited to the responsibility of librarians and information specialists with respect to the free flow of ideas and access to information.

One of the most influential courses I took during my program was LIS 598 Indigenous Contexts for Library & Information Studies. Not only did the course introduce concepts of knowledge-keeping and knowledge-sharing that were… disruptive might be the best word for it… to those more commonly held within librarianship, but the way the course was taught also embodied these approaches, bringing together, for example, concepts of oral tradition and transmission of knowledge with newer information technologies.

One of the results, an assignment to introduce an Indigenous work of literature to a wider audience, consists of this one-minute video review on YouTube…