10.2: Text Description - Invisible Knapsack of Information Privilege
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The image shows a backpack with the words "Information Privilege" on the back.
Around the backpack are text boxes with arrows pointing to the backpack.
Information privileges identified for high school students in text boxes include:
- My high school had access to scholarly databases (example: JSTOR, EBSCO).
- My high school prepared me for college-level research (example: citing sources, plagiarism, finding & evaluating sources).
- I had to write research papers in my high school.
- I had access to books in my native language in high school.
- I had lots of books at home.
- My high school had a library and a librarian.
- My high school had a lot of technology.
- I could get to a public library in my hometown.
- I had easy access to the internet growing up.
Information privileges identified for college students in text boxes include:
- If a book or article isn't in my college library, I can request a free copy of it from another library.
- My college subscribes to citation software (note, this isn't true at CRC).
- I have access to many databases and journals through my college library.
- I am able to purchase textbooks for all of my courses.
- My college has a special collections library.
- My college library hasn't had major budget cuts.
- My professors often provide students with the full text to course readings.
- I have a personal computer and/or smartphone with a data plan and internet access.
- My professors encourage academic freedom.