Webinar: IFLA CPDWL - Infodemic: how do librarians get ready to face it? 25 October 2022

19 October, 2022

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Oct 25, 2022 10:00 AM in

Description: The Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) Section, (IFLA) in support of the Global Media and Information Literacy Week (October 24 to 31 2022) cordially invites you to a webinar on:

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What is infodemic? How is the library profession responding to the infodemic? How does this affect their professional development? What new demands and needs have arisen from the information disorder?

In this webinar you will learn more about infodemic as a concept and how we went from fake news to infodemic in the last five years; about training initiatives at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will also hear the clarion call on the role of the librarian in advocacy and the skills needed to fight infodemic and infobesity.

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If you are participating in this (or any) event please do share your observations with us afterwards: hifa@hifaforums.org

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Global Coordinator HIFA, www.hifa.org neil@hifa.org

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