Open AccessIn the News
Author(s) -
David Free
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.78.10.533
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , information literacy , focus (optics) , fake news , social media , sociology , media literacy , political science , library science , public relations , computer science , media studies , world wide web , pedagogy , physics , artificial intelligence , optics
Welcome to the November 2017 issue of C&RL News. The continued focus on the accuracy of information in both traditional and social media provides an important opportunity for academic and research librarians to provide information literacy instruction that is meaningful to students beyond their classroom assignments. In their article “Says who?” librarians from Aquinas College provide insight into a variety of classroom approaches to addressing “fake news” with undergraduate students.