Library and media roles in information hygiene and managing information by Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, Alexander Madanha Rusero, Ngoako Solomon Marutha, Josiline Phiri Chigwada, Oluwole Olumide Durodolu.
Material type: TextSeries: Advances in information quality and management (AIQM) book seriesPublisher: Hershey, PA Information Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global, [2022]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) illustrations (chiefly color)ISBN: 1799887154; 9781799887157Subject(s): Africa | COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) | Libraries and public health | Libraries and public health -- Africa | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- | Information literacy | Media literacy | Fake news | Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- | Culture de l'information | Éducation aux médias | Fausses nouvelles | Fake news | Information literacy | Libraries and public health | Media literacyGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 021.2/8 LOC classification: Z716.42 | .C48 2022Online resources: EBSCOhostIncludes bibliographical references and index.
"The book explores the concept of information hygiene from a myriad of angles including but not limited to digital archiving, records management, libraries and information science, production and publishing, media, politics of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinations, twenty-first century literacies and information management among others"-- Provided by publisher.
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Chapter 1. Evaluating the socio-economic impact of digital information manipulation and weaponization of information -- Chapter 2. Confronting information hygiene in the COVID-19 pandemic era in Zimbabwe libraries: views from selected LIS practitioners -- Chapter 3. Archives to warrant hygiene in the information housed in a repository -- Chapter 4. Arresting infodemic proliferation in the advent of COVID-19: unpacking practical strategies in confronting fake news -- Chapter 5. Digital archiving to spearhead access to heritage information for all interested clients in Africa -- Chapter 6. Archival institutions to worry about records management modus operandi for impact on their future holdings -- Chapter 7. Dual tragedy of an infodemic in a pandemic: exploring the ramifications of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 8. In the heat of the COVID-19 vaccine apartheid: where do libraries stand? -- Chapter 9. Opportunities and challenges offered by the "new normal" in the book value chain -- Chapter 10. Myths, fake news, tirades, and diatribes and the COVID-19 pandemic: what can libraries do? -- Chapter 11. The changing role of library and information professionals in the new normal: towards a new trajectory -- Chapter 12. Information and digital literacy in the new normal: dealing with fake news and misinformation in institutions of higher learning.
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