Toward A Critical-Inclusive Assessment Practice For Library Instruction

Abstract

the text continues with methodologies and practices for the advancement of metaliteracy across LIS, the arts, traditional sciences, and for lifelong learners. For academic library public services professionals, this book offers a deep dive into one of the core foundations of the ACRL Framework, looking at metaliteracy from a variety of lenses and perspectives. Having myself provided reference services and collection development at both large universities and a small college, I found the topics and discussions germane to most of the daily interactions I would have with students, as well as a natural continuation of the previous two works from Mackey and Jacobson. And as someone who has led discussions outside of academia on “fake news” and the misuse of information, I found the perspectives and hypothesis firmly rooted in our current reality and immediately transferable to non-academics. The only issue I can find with the book, which is of no fault of the authors, is with the formatting and font choices of the paperback copy of the book. The formatting of the book made an insightful collection of works hard to read due to small font sizes and odd arrangement. The book simply did not read well due to these factors. Hopefully this will be minimized in other mediums of the text.