A Little Bit Literate

The other day, my coworker asked me for advice on how to deal with a delicate issue. His 15 year old nephew's facebook page had a couple of pictures of him and girls, which were not terribly shocking by themselves. The conversation between this kid's friends, however, was shocking. This kid goes to a private [...]

In thinking more about critical literacy in libraries, I realized that the question I have as a librarian is "In what ways does the library reflect and reinforce cultural and social hierarchies, biases, and power structures?" In other words, are there ways that what we do--or don't do--contributes to marginalizing and/or disenfranchising groups of people? [...]