Stories, Not Information: Transforming Information Literacy

This is a hard read, if for no other reason than the point that's being made is obscure and dry. Purdue is obviously clever at what he does but he falls into the trap of being the point he's attempting to make; and the point he makes is that Information Literacy, as it's described in the literature, misses the point. He suggests that is through the process of telling stories - not through some stodgy, mechanistic fomula - that we gain access to what literacy is all about. And what's it all about? It's about invocation of pictures and images that stir human emotions and bring us to life as active, engaged citizens in a democracy.