Yes, We (Still) Can: Promoting Equity and Inclusion in Children’s and Young Adult Library Services

Hill, Renee F.

doi:10.1086/693490

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“…This point can be illustrated in a number of ways. Articles have focused on varieties of civic education as a response to fake news and the political environment, and detail many library initiatives: in programming on a variety of topics from constitutionalism to election information to a sales tax forum (Bossaller, 2017); in opposing censorship and/or promoting intellectual freedom (Knox, 2017; Oltmann, 2017; Lilburn, 2017); in exposing exclusion and advocating inclusion of Latino/as (Adkins et al , 2017), African-Americans (Caswell, 2017; Jackson et al , 2017), and the white working class and rural areas (McCook, 2017; Mehra, 2017); and in efforts to educate the very young (Hill, 2017) and college students (Pun, 2017; Rose-Wiles, 2018) about fake news. At the core of these efforts the concept of critical information literacy is key to political literacy and efficacy.…”

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Good news, bad news, and fake news

Buschman

2019

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Purpose Library and Information Science (LIS) has seen an explosion of responses to fake news in the aftermath of the 2016 US election, political in nature, eschewing “neutrality” supporting democracy. The purpose of this paper is to trace the definition of fake news, the challenges, the roots of recent respondes to fake news, notes that the theoretical understanding of democracy must keep pace with these efforts. Design/methodology/approach Conceptual analysis of the LIS literature concerning fake news and its underlying themes; unpacking of actually existing democracy, re-linked to LIS practices. Findings Democracy does not require a space cleared of distorting claims but spaces suited to grappling with them, a call to address fake news, and not simply a matter of clearing up information sources; librarians should prepared to engage at the next level. Libraries stand for the proposition that there is more-true information which is worth accessing, organizing, etc., and for inclusion. Whether explicitly political or not, the imaginative uses to which libraries are put do enrich civil society and the public sphere. Libraries help to counter fake news both through specific educative actions aimed at it and as broadly educative institutions with a coherent notion of their relationship to informational discernment in democracy. Originality/value LIS discourse on fake news has value, and references democracy, but assumes a set of traditional relationships between informing, libraries and democracy. This paper goes at both the lesser role of informing and highlights the (arguably) greater social role of libraries in democratic society.

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