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Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News
Going beyond the fake news problem, this book tackles the broader issue of teaching library users of all types how to become more critical consumers and sharers of information.
As a public, school, or academic librarian or educator, you can help library users to become more conscious and responsible consumers of information. As you read, you'll gain a better understanding and appreciation of the core concepts involved in promoting critical information literacy, such as information ethics, media literacy, and civic education. You'll also learn the history of fake news and come away with practical ideas in mind for strategies to apply in your library.
Chapters contributed by leading experts in public, academic, and school library services are written in plain, everyday language that librarians and library school students can easily understand and relate to their own experiences as information users, especially their experiences in social media and other online venues where sharing false information takes only a click.
As a public, school, or academic librarian or educator, you can help library users to become more conscious and responsible consumers of information. As you read, you'll gain a better understanding and appreciation of the core concepts involved in promoting critical information literacy, such as information ethics, media literacy, and civic education. You'll also learn the history of fake news and come away with practical ideas in mind for strategies to apply in your library.
Chapters contributed by leading experts in public, academic, and school library services are written in plain, everyday language that librarians and library school students can easily understand and relate to their own experiences as information users, especially their experiences in social media and other online venues where sharing false information takes only a click.
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200 pages, Paperback
Published October 12, 2018
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January 19, 2023
Despite the claims of the authors collected in this volume, I sense that the library is an infirm institution in America. So, while information literacy is, as these authors aver, a supreme social imperative, public/school libraries will deliver in the years to come but paltry results in the war against fake news.
5 stars for quality writing and for emphasizing the urgent need for public information literacy training, but deduct 2 for overestimating the role that libraries can play in delivering the goods.
5 stars for quality writing and for emphasizing the urgent need for public information literacy training, but deduct 2 for overestimating the role that libraries can play in delivering the goods.
September 18, 2019
What I liked about this was seeing all the different ways that library professionals want to deal with this problematic phenomenon. That, and the research. He essays were generally quite academic, even philosophical, but this is easily a jumping-off place for a thesis, just based on the bibliographies. Dense, though. Most of the essays are heavy lifting and you won’t get a single clear answer as to how we should fix the problem - or if we can.
December 11, 2023
read this for school but didn't hate it that much ! would be 5 stars if i didnt have to do a project on it
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