Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy: Confronting Polarization, Misinformation, and Suppression (Advances in Librarianship, 50) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1839825979 ISBN 13: 9781839825972

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021

Synopsis

This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents original research exploring the modern state of democracies and social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently facing libraries as institutions. It details the best practices of library programs that provide political literacy education and promote civic engagement within communities. These practices include ways in which libraries can help diffuse political polarization, address significant policy issues of our day, promote political information literacy, support civic engagement, and facilitate participation in democratic processes.

Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy: Confronting Polarization, Misinformation, and Suppression is structured in three sections - questions of personal and state democracy, investigations of how the information infrastructure shapes these democracies, and explorations of the ways that libraries can and do contribute to democracy. Situating libraries within political conversations, highlighting their centrality to these discussions, Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy focuses on how libraries coordinate their work in political and information literacy and how these efforts can be improved, he recommendations and examples within which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.

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About the Author

Natalie Greene Taylor is an assistant professor and Coordinator of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the School of Information of the University of South Florida, USA.
Karen Kettnich is Managing Editor of The Library Quarterly and lecturer in English at Clemson University, USA.
Ursula Gorham is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Master of Library and Information Science program in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, USA.
Paul T. Jaeger is a professor of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839825979
• ISBN 13: 9781839825972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Taylor Natalie Greene, Kettnich Karen, Gorham Ursula, Jaeger Paul T.