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Learning to be compliant: The role that fear plays within information literacy teaching

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Trigger Words: Mental Health, Anxiety, Shame Over the last few years, considerations of mental health and wellbeing have become particularly important within library work. In the UK, this focus is often driven by statistics that show the high proportion of young people who have a probable mental health problem (Young Minds, n.d.). More specifically, anxiety […]

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“Don’t you know that you’re toxic?” Information literacy and toxic positivity – Alison Hicks, University College London

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I’ve recently been reading about the concept of toxic positivity, which is the assumption that we should always maintain a happy and optimistic outlook on life (Goodman, 2022). Emerging from the idea that thinking and acting positively can improve mental health by grounding us or encouraging gratitude, positivity has been critiqued for becoming toxic when

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