Becoming Information Literate about Information Technology and the Ethics of Toxic Waste.

The article explores the ethical and social justice issues inherent in the life cycle of computer technologies and discusses the role that university faculty can play to increase awareness of ecological and social responsibility. Instruction librarians and information science faculty are like other faculty to use a variety of information technologies. As instruction librarians and other faculty frequently use technology in the classroom, it is vital that they develop and espouse a pedagogy that is sensitive to issues of the environment and social justice. Instruction librarians have made an effort to bring information ethics topics into classroom, which had involved discussing plagarism, intellectual property law and implications of the digital divide. The issues surrounding the chain of production, supply, acquisition, consumption and disposal of technology become even more relevant to the current classroom discourse.