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Stories, Not Information: Transforming Information Literacy
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 3, Number 4, October 2003
- pp. 653-662
- 10.1353/pla.2003.0095
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Information Literacy is firmly ensconced within libraries, but it does not always travel well to other disciplines. One reason may be the words "information" and "literacy" themselves. This article looks at some of the embedded notions in these terms and suggests an alternate approach derived from the critic Walter Benjamin.