Using the Anti-racism Digital Library and Thesaurus to Understand Information Access, Authority, Value and Privilege

Abstract

ABSTR ACT The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, specifically the six threshold concepts about information, mirrors the experiences of the author as a researcher studying the representation of anti-racism in bibliographic information systems. Anti-racism, in general, is a great concept to use when teaching information literacy and the paper discusses how antiracism information literacy can be taught and learned as part of theological and religious studies education. This paper was presented at the ATLA Annual Conference in 2017. Since the conference was in Atlanta, the article begins with two stories about the scholar DuBois who lived there, and which are also used to highlight information literacy concepts.