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270: Virtue Information Literacy by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

270: Virtue Information Literacy by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Update: 2024-08-13
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Guest host Troy Swanson chats with Wayne Bivens-Tatum, author of Libraries and the Enlightenment and Virtue Information Literacy, about the concept of “information anarchy,” the relevance of cultivating intellectual virtues like open-mindedness, intellectual humility, and epistemic justice to thrive in today’s complex information landscape, and integrating virtue ethics and Buddhist mindfulness practices to improve information literacy and ultimately achieve a well-lived life.





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Wayne Bivens-Tatum is the Librarian for Philosophy, Religion, and Anthropology at the Princeton University Library. He has taught academic writing at the University of Illinois and Princeton University and courses on librarianship for the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences and Rutgers University’s Department of Library and Information Science. He currently teaches college English classes to incarcerated students in New Jersey state prisons as a volunteer with Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative. He’s published two books, Libraries and the Enlightenment and Virtue Information Literacy, both with Library Juice Press.





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270: Virtue Information Literacy by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

270: Virtue Information Literacy by Wayne Bivens-Tatum

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