New book: Informed Societies

A new book from Facet, edited by Stéphane Goldstein: Informed Societies: Why information literacy matters for citizenship, participation and democracy (ISBN 9781783304226, price £74.95, CILIP members price: £59.95) It includes the chapters
- The discourses of power, information and literacy by Andrew Whitworth
- What intellectual empathy can offer information literacy education by Andrea Baer
- Media and information literacy: intersection and evolution, a brief history by Jesús Lau and Alton Grizzle
- Information literacy and national policy making by John Crawford
- Information literacy as a growth pillar for a fledgling democracy by Reggie Raju, Glynnis Johnson and Zanele Majebe
- Libraries and democracy: complementarity in a regime of truth by Hilary Yerbury and Maureen Henninger
- Scottish public libraries welcome Syrian new Scots: a transition from being a refugee to becoming an active part of the community by Konstantina Martzoukou
- Information literacy, lifelong learning and the needs of an ageing population by Bill Johnston
Go to http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=304226&category_code=13#.XfAPoEHgqHt