Thanks to Drew Whitworth, University of Manchester’s LIS-INFOLITERACY@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing

Lee G Burchinal’s “The Communications Revolution” (1976): new digitised copy of text with commentary

To facilitate further scholarship into the origins of ‘information literacy’ — as an idea and a practical project — I have digitised the text of the speech and presented it online, with the permission of both Texas A & M University and Professor Burchinal himself. I have also added a commentary, assessing its contribution to the field and comparing it to Zurkowski’s 1974 paper. I am also happy to say that Prof Burchinal answered a few of my questions by email and his observations have also been included in the commentary

The Communications Revolution by Lee G Burchinal: edited and with an introduction by A. Whitworth : http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/drew.whitworth/burchinal.html

Good luck with the new book Radical Information Literacy (forthcoming 2014).

Originally added by Christine Irving