Information literacy as professional legitimation: The quest for professional jurisdiction Available to Purchase

The purpose of this paper is to determine how the professionalization of school and academic librarianship contributed to the establishment of information literacy as a form of legitimation.

Historical analysis via Abbott.

The need to obtain and maintain professional status did place school and academic librarians in a vulnerable position during a time of change that forced them to seek a new jurisdiciton of expertise.

Important for the profession to examine the context of the emergence of a current and important framework.