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Information Literacy in the Disciplines

This guide contains links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education

Information Literacy in the Disciplines: Women’s & Gender Studies

The ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines Committee has gathered links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education in Women’s & Gender Studies.

Last updated May 2024

1. Standards or Guidelines from Accrediting Agencies and Professional Associations

Association of College and Research Libraries Women and Gender Studies Instruction Committee. 2021. Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Women's and Gender Studies.”

2. Related Research

Accardi, Maria T. 2013. Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction. Sacramento, California: Library Juice Press.

ALA/ACRL/Women & Gender Studies Section. 2017. “Bibliography of Scholarship on Women and Gender Studies Librarianship.”

Association of College and Research Libraries Women and Gender Studies Section. October 2012. “Research Agenda for Women and Gender Studies Librarianship.”

Couture, Juliann and Sharon Ladenson. 2017. “Empowering, Enlightening, and Energizing: Research as Inquiry in Women’s and Gender Studies.” In Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, edited by Samantha Godbey, Susan Wainscott, and Xan Goodman, 177-189. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Eudey, Betsy. 2012. “Civic Engagement, Cyberfeminism, and Online Learning: Activism and Service Learning in Women’s and Gender Studies Courses.” Feminist Teacher 22 (3): 233-250.

Fullmer, Millicent. 2019. "Representing Gender: Visual Literacy Instruction in the Academic Library," Open Information Science 3, no. 1: 22-31. doi: 10.1515/opis-2019-0002.

Hassel, Holly and Christie Launius. 2017. “Crossing the Threshold in Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies Courses: An Assessment of Student Learning.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 5 (2): 30-46.

O'Neill, Brittany. 2021. "Authority is Constructed and Contextual Empowering Students to Navigate Privilege in Academic Publishing," College & Research Libraries News 82. doi:10.5860/CRLN.82.11.502.

Rosa, Vanessa and Caro Pinto. 2023. "Disrupting Data: Developing Technology Integrated Assignments to Teach about Race and Racism." Radical Teacher, 125. doi: 10.5195/rt.2023.972

Tewell, Eamon. 2015. “A Decade of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature.” Communications in Information Literacy 9 (1): 24-43.

3. Adaptable Instructional Materials

Acosta, Elisa. 2017. “The Gender Gap in Wikipedia.” CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments).

Archer, Alyssa. 2017. “Share the Load: A Single Shot of Critical Pedagogy.” CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments).

Conner-Gaten, Aisha. 2017. “Finding Sources and Annotated Bibliography Fish Bowls.” CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments).

Galoozis, Elizabeth. 2016. “Annotated Bibliography / Introduction to Disciplines.” CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 

Hallman, Shelby. 20024. "Break the Code: Understanding Algorithmic Bias." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 

Hartman-Caverly, Sarah. 2023. "Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments).