Author: Rebecca Hill
Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization: A Conversation with the Editors
The book is a way to explore the many ways that we can hold true to endowing librarianship to encourage a spirited inquiry and encourage more listening.
Getting to the Truth in a Post-Truth Society: An Interview with Lee McIntyre, Author of Post-Truth
According to Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History, Boston University, we are now living in a post-truth society. McIntyre believes that post-truth is an attempt to compel someone to believe in something whether evidence exists for it or not. One memorable example: Donald Trump claiming his inauguration crowd was larger than Obama’s crowd even though photographic evidence indicated otherwise.
Hearing from Deborah Caldwell-Stone, New Director of the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom and Executive Director of Freedom to Read Foundation
I believe that libraries are little engines of democracy. They are the place that anyone can go and educate themselves.
What Librarians Can Do to Get Out the Vote: An Interview with Ari Berman, Author, Give Us the Ballot
Half the states in the country have changed their voting laws to make it more difficult to vote, a very large number in a concentrated period.
How Democracies Die: An Interview with Steven Levitsky, Co-Author of How Democracies Die
If you take a mainstream political science definition of democracy, the United States didn’t become a full democracy until 1965 with the Voting Rights Act because it did not have full adult suffrage until 1965.
The New Arms Race: Deep Fakes and Their Impact on Information
In today’s roller-coaster technological world, the hackers have gotten more sophisticated using open source software and machine learning algorithms, raising the bar as to how destructive they can be. That’s why Congress is so nervous about the upcoming 2020 elections. Imagine the election impact seeing a video of Donald Trump shooting someone in the street, something he claimed he could do with no recourse during the 2016 election.
Finding the Truth in Today’s Politics: An Interview with Angie Drobnic Holan Editor of PolitiFact
At PolitiFact, we are trying to correct the misstated or incorrect facts because if you don’t have accurate facts, any conversation becomes impossible.
Champion of Libraries and Democracy
Libraries have always been a forum for ideas, a place for people to come and speak. I think that this is where libraries can make a difference. The public not only wants a chance to hear the issues but also the opportunity to deliberate with their fellow citizens on what those issues mean.
Impact of Mis/Disinformation on Health Care Information Literacy
So, what do patients do when they can’t get the information that they need? Well, they look elsewhere. The place they look? The library. One study reported that 60% of survey participants stated that libraries were among their preferred sources of health information.
When Local Newspapers Close, What Can Libraries Do?
When the local newspaper closed in Weare, New Hampshire, the community lost its local news source. In stepped Mike Sullivan, library director of the Weare Public Library.