Beyond information: the academic library as

educational change agent

Dr Alan BundyUniversity Librarian

University of South Australia

This papers is accessible at www.library.unisa.edu.au/about/papers/default.asp#ab

What is the key issue? What are the imperatives for change? The importance of information literacy The Australian contribution to information literacy Who owns information literacy? Developing the academic teacher/academic

librarian partnership Information commons or learning commons? Developing the librarian/librarian partnership Vision and assertion The winds of educational changehow do they

blow?

What is the key issue?

What are the imperatives for change?

The importance of information literacy

The Australian contribution to information literacy

Who owns information literacy?

Developing the academic teacher/academic librarian partnership

Information commons or learning commons?

Developing the librarian/ librarian partnership

Vision and assertion

The winds of educational changehow do they blow?

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate profoundly on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

Education is not neutral. Its purpose can be either to domesticate or to liberate. Education domesticates where knowledge is given to or deposited into learners where the relationship between educators and learner is that of subject to object.

Read more widely, see more clearly, think more clearly. Challenge authorities on every occasion. More importantly challenge themselves.

Vielen Dank fϋr lhre Aufmerksamkeit.

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