Call for proposals:

There is an extended call for proposals for the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC)/ IFLA Conference, which will be in Dublin, Ireland, 26-29 July 2022: News Literacy: Fighting Fake Information at Your Library. It is organised by the IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section and News Media Section. Deadline for proposaals is 29 April 2022. The presentations will be short talks (20 slides of 20 seconds each - 6 minutes 40 seconds - or a time limit of 5 minutes). They are "looking for proposals that focus on library events about misinformation, disinformation, and fake news."
Topics include: "How has your library joined the fight against fake information? How have you and your colleagues helped your patrons learn to identify what is true and what is false on the Internet? How have you collaborated with people and groups outside of your library to teach the much-needed skill of evaluating for credibility before spreading untruths? How has your library dealt with external or internal pressure, political, religious or any other form of activism, to impose “alternative truths”? What is the role of News Literacy in the age of fake news or infomedics? How does News Literacy encounter the infodemic COVID19? How do you and your colleagues approach research processes that require the investigation of social media as it becomes part of historical records?"
You should submit an abstract/proposal of no more than 500 words, plus contact information for the first author, all authors & institutional affiliations, confirmation of understanding that the presenter is responsible for conference registration and all expenses associated with attendance and that they can meet all future deadlines. Sub,issions should be emailed to iflasocsci@gmail.com or here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2Cj2-M375BS3HgCG02U4Of08wRT6lAhgCFpwCoU3UQgmbVA/viewform (n.b. the form still has the original deadline of 18 April, but that has been extended to 29 April). If selected, you have to provide full text of the paper by 15 June 2022 and slides by 10 July 2022.

Photo by Sheila Webber: daffodils, April 2022