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ISU professor Philip Homan鈥檚 work in information ethics has been cited in recent research about racist Indigenous Canadian children鈥檚 literature.

The peer-reviewed article, by University of British Columbia librarians, 鈥淩epurposing Problematic Books into Critical Literacy Kits,鈥� was published this year by Routledge in the information science journal Collection Management. According to the study, racist books 鈥減erpetuate harm by exposing 鈥� historically oppressed and colonized groups to 鈥� stereotypical depictions of their communities and cultures,鈥� but removing them from library collections 鈥渢akes away opportunities to promote critical literacy 鈥� in library instruction.鈥�

The authors cite Homan鈥檚 research in support of repurposing racist books from the UBC Library鈥檚 Indigenous children鈥檚 literature collections into Critical Literacy Kits. The UBC uses the kits in information literacy instruction to teach students to examine privilege and power in the creation, collection, organization, and use of information, according to the Association of College and Research Libraries鈥� Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2016), which is the current information literacy standard for colleges and universities.

Homan鈥檚 article 鈥淟ibrary Catalog Notes for 鈥楤ad Books鈥欌�� was published in 2012 in Knowledge Organization, the peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Knowledge Organization.

Homan is instruction librarian at the ISU Libraries and teaches information literacy in ISU鈥檚 general education program.