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CICAS: Toward a Critical Framework of Information Literacy in Addiction Science Please do not remove this page CICAS: Toward a critical framework of information literacy in Addiction Science Bejarano, William; Ward, Judit Hajnal https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/discovery/delivery/01RUT_INST:ResearchRepository/12643430900004646?l#13643522700004646 Bejarano, W., & Ward, J. H. (2016). CICAS: Toward a critical framework of information literacy in Addiction Science. In Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 33–41). Rutgers University. https://doi.org/10.7282/T37M0B9N This work is protected by copyright. You are free to use this resource, with proper attribution, for research and educational purposes. Other uses, such as reproduction or publication, may require the permission of the copyright holder. Downloaded On 2021/09/30 13:31:45 -0400 Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies: Proceedings of the 38th Annual SALIS / AMHL Conference CICAS: Toward a critical framework of information literacy in Addiction Science William Bejarano Center of Alcohol Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Judit H. Ward Center of Alcohol Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Abstract This paper is an attempt to suggest a critical framework for addiction information literacy. Since the ACRL information literacy standards were updated in 2015, our field is in need of guidelines about how to translate its general principles to meet the special needs of our diverse audiences. The authors wish to identify the unique application of the ACRL standards to the field of addiction science. An applied and transdisciplinary science requires a particular emphasis on evaluating sources and a special regard for the sensitive nature of the information sought. The authors' exploratory information literacy sessions have been presented in various settings with researchers ranging from post-docs to distinguished professors; counselors at the bachelors, masters, and continuing education levels; undergraduate and graduate students; and the general public. This presentation draws upon these sessions and calls for the collective effort of substance abuse librarians to provide both a general overview and specific customized training programs for our distinctive field. Keywords Information literacy, Addiction Science, Infrastructure competencies it had first developed in 2000. Introduction ACRL defines this framework as a “set of In 2015, the Association of College & frames, or lenses, through which to view Research Libraries (ACRL) updated its information literacy, each of which includes a definition of the information literacy (IL) concept central to information literacy, Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies: Proceedings of the 38th Annual SALIS / AMHL Conference knowledge practices, and dispositions” Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (Association of College and Research (SALIS), devoted to information professionals Libraries, n.d.). Contrasting the 2015 in the field. Similarly, and on a larger scale, definition with that from 2000, the NAADAC is a professional organization that association has moved beyond the basic allows for the communication of essential “need—search—find—use” understanding of information to alcohol counselors and others information, and instead places a greater who aim to translate knowledge into practice. emphasis on its creation, its value, and the INCASE, the International Coalition for ethical standards surrounding it. It is Addiction Studies Education, deals with essential for those in the information educational standards in the field. The profession, particularly in the heart of the International Society of Addiction Journal information age, to carefully articulate a Editors (ISAJE) meets annually to discuss the general set of competencies for themselves trends, challenges, and opportunities of the and their constituencies. This new framework publishing arm of the field. The Research serves as a petition to develop this Society on Alcoholism (RSA) and the Society understanding and customize it for the for the Study of Addiction (SSA) are just two various academic and professional settings in of the many international organizations which it may be useful. comprising the field’s top researchers. And The Addiction Science field is in a prime one of the most promising organizations is historical and logistical position to rapidly the emergent International Confederation of adopt a set of IL guidelines, should they be ATOD Research Associations, or ICARA, which properly developed. In terms of history, the aims to serve as the umbrella organization or field has had a strong affiliation with the meta-society to which the rest of the field can information profession since its modern adhere. Such a highly organized set of inception in the late 1930s and early 1940s. societies offers an opportunity to quickly and The Center of Alcohol Studies, the first efficiently disseminate protocols and interdisciplinary research center devoted to standards, as evidenced by instances like the alcohol and its problems, owes its existence 1997 Farmington Consensus, which in no small part to a project funded by the established some shared procedural and Carnegie Corporation to the Research Council ethical “ground rules” for addiction journals on Problems of Alcohol, designed to review, (Edwards, Holder, West, & Babor, 1997). abstract, and organize the alcohol literature With this opportunity ahead of us, let us to date (Jellinek, 1941). Because the field now turn to a brief explanation of each of the emerged from the academic dark ages of the six ACRL IL frames, and how they are post-prohibition era, it was essential that the currently applied and might be further alcohol question not be resolved simply by developed in the various addiction appealing to moral arguments, but that professions. What follows is merely a enough information should be made available thumbnail sketch of each frame, and is by no to take reasonable, fully informed action on means comprehensive or exhaustive. The aim the matter. Thus, its early founders Norman of this article is to serve as a beginning point, Joliffe, Howard Haggard, E. M. Jellinek, and a discussion starter, with some ideas and a Mark Keller placed a strong emphasis on a few concrete examples of how we might systematic, organized, and sustainable redefine our roles in a rapidly changing documentation process, one that was wholly profession within a rapidly growing field. original and unique to this nascent field. Second, addiction science is well- Frame 1: Authority is organized along professional lines, which constructed and contextual even a cursory look at the landscape makes Because addiction science is a evident. Readers of this publication are likely multidisciplinary—oftentimes familiar with the association of Substance Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies: Proceedings of the 38th Annual SALIS / AMHL Conference trans disciplinary—field of science, experts claim to the person making it, and by spanning the academic spectrum often extension to that person’s educational attempt to work in harmony to address the background, experience in the field, previous public health issue of alcohol and drug use work on the topic at hand, organization from several perspectives (Fuqua, Stokols, represented, etc. And with an understanding Gress, Phillips, & Harvey, 2004). Inherent in a about the various venues to which one’s field made up of several disciplines is the online presence is established, particularly in question of who can speak with authority on academia, these bona fides can typically be the broad topic of addiction. The various compiled and evaluated in a fairly disciplines that make up the field lead to a comprehensive way. Consider the rapidly multitude of perspectives, equally emerging venues for researcher profiles, authoritative, and arguments from one which have had major implications on discipline may very well conflict with, if not scholarly communication and how outright contradict, those from another. researchers are perceived outside of their When addiction is understood through a fairly stagnant and cautiously curated CVs psychological or sociological lens, the focus is (Ward, Bejarano, & Dudas, 2015). A working often on cultural or individual motivations to knowledge of this landscape can lead to a use substances. Simultaneously, addiction better understanding of the more popular research is taking place in the natural scholarly social media tools and their unique sciences, applying the principles of biology, uses, such as ResearchGate, ORCID, chemistry, or genetics to the issue. Further, Academia.edu, Mendeley, and MyNCBI, to law and policy play an enormous role in name but a few. shaping the culture and structure that may This of course raises the question of why lead to addictions, so understanding the you should be listening to the authors of this socioeconomic and legal frameworks are piece. By what or whose authority can we important. Other disciplines can easily be support our claim that online profiles are an added into this mix—an expert philosopher, important and useful way to verify one’s anthropologist, historian, or even information authority, and thus worth paying attention scientist all see the problem through their to? A cursory look at our online presence unique lenses. What is ultimately essential to might lead one to our profiles from LinkedIn, anyone working in the field in any capacity is ResearchGate, or PubMed. Advanced degrees to know what discipline any individual
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