As part of Northern Michigan University's Diversity Common Reader Program and in honor of Black History Month, the Central Upper Peninsula and NMU Archives is hosting the following presentation via Zoom.

Title: Critical Information Literacy: Consciousness Raising and Social Justice in the Archives

When: February 24, 10-12

Where: Zoom presentation https://psu.zoom.us/j/94983655577

Summary:
Critical Information Literacy is a theory of learning that endeavors to impact social change. Instructors can use the experiences and voices found in the papers and records (primary sources) collected by archives and special collections for classroom consciousness-raising activities that also teach information literacy skills.

This presentation will discuss Critical Information Literacy as part of primary source literacy instruction in archives. The presentation will also include an exercise using primary sources documenting the history of Black student protests at Northern Michigan University in the late 1960s. The historical documents come from the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives.

This presentation is a part of the NMU’s Diversity Common Reader Program and will be presented online via Zoom.

Presenters:
Julie Porterfield
Associate Professor and Instruction and Outreach Archivist
Penn State University

Marcus C. Robyns, CA
Professor and University Archivist
Northern Michigan University

Dr. Robbie Goodrich
Professor, History)
Northern Michigan University

For more information, contact Marcus C. Robyns at mrobyns@nmu.edu or 227-1046


Marcus C. Robyns,  CA
Professor and University Archivist
Northern Michigan University
(906) 227-1046