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the fall of 2022, with midterm elections coming, I wrote about </span><a href="https://mel.org/blog/Leading-Information-Literate-Lives-Using-the-MeL-eResources"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">leading more information
literate</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> lives. Heading back to school and college this fall, as well as with the 2024 election coming in November, now is the perfect time to highlight some recent
MeL updates on this topic. The </span><a href="https://mel.org/welcome"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Michigan eLibrary</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
(MeL) includes content that educators and library staff can use to help students and patrons navigate the abundance of information that they are inundated with daily.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Working to identify credible sources using checklist methods such as CRAAP or SIFT has been common practice.
However, other strategies might prove more effective. In </span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=01beb4be-3013-3a22-82e2-85a731f8da1c"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Communications
in Information Literacy</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> (full text in
</span><a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebsco-lls"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Library & Information Science Source</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
2010-present), Mark N. Lenker III presents "</span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=21bb6c55-4c45-3486-834f-84581bfaf401"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dwindling Trust in Experts:
A Starting Point for Information Literacy</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">." He notes that recent studies have shown that people have less trust in experts and provides alternative teaching strategies
that might help people think about sources differently. For example, he suggests research should be more about understanding ideas than settling a question with certainty since we can always learn more about a topic and gain further knowledge that might shift
perspectives. He also devises questions that can be asked about a source to better determine if the information it contains can be trusted.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.25pt"><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=413e3a70-5abb-368e-9caf-9c853b3a7087"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Media
Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and Other Information Professionals</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> by Joanna M. Burkhardt in the
</span><a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebsco-e000xna"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">eBook Academic Collection</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
provides background information about how technology and media intersect. The content is accompanied by exercises to help demonstrate the ideas. Timely topics include artificial intelligence, statistics and data visualization, deepfakes, and fact checking.
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</span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=df750a26-0499-3215-bda3-67b049930697"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Computers in Libraries</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
(full text in </span><a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebsco-lls"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Library & Information Science Source</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
1993-present), "</span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=7d670c97-2aee-3f76-bd4d-859771713600"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Voices of the Searchers</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">"
by Mary Ellen Bates asserts that information literacy is still being taught as it was in the 1970s. She suggests that we all need to be more like professional fact-checkers using skills such as lateral reading and learning about technology including GenAI
to successfully determine the legitimacy of a source.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Information literacy continues to be a hot topic in the library profession. Additional content
</span><a href="https://mel.org/az.php"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">MeL eResource</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> content on the topic includes:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebsco-lls"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Library & Information Science Source</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> provides
publications such as </span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=2ed0942d-b99e-3595-b086-ffcf0ee28468"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Future Internet</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">,
</span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=01415161-202b-399b-a38c-fb6bb777e673"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Information Technology & Libraries</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">,
</span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=b73ec9e7-cc7b-3025-b4de-e6734b16c7d0"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Journal of Information Literacy</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">,
and </span><a href="https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=5ec36392-63dc-37cb-aa43-c63382fffe2c"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Library Quarterly</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
which can be searched to locate additional studies and lesson ideas.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebscoprofile-pov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Points of View Reference Source</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> has
radio and TV news transcripts which can be used to verify quotes used online and in memes for correct wording and context.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Gale and
</span><a href="https://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=ebscoprofile-ebooks"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">EBSCO</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
eBooks focused on digital literacy for all ages can help everyone discover more about this important and timely topic.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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