Access and Competition: Profile of a Digital Information Literacy Business

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Lars Soderlund, Purdue University

Location

Room 218

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

This presentation considers who is excluded from and included in information literacy practices. To do this, the presenter profiles a digital information literacy business startup as it forms its institutional practices. This presentation examines how the business plans to mix public information literacy education with private monetary gain in an effort to answer the question, “How should we feel about information literacy businesses?”

Keywords

Information literacy, Business startup plans

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Soderlund, Lars, "Access and Competition: Profile of a Digital Information Literacy Business" (2008). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 50.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2008/2008/50