Sandy Zinn

Wow! If only we could get the South African government to endorse school libraries as the AASL has done in the USA ala.org/news/press-rel…

Useful guide for all libraries libraryprivacyguides.org

What has happened to school library campaigns in South Africa? Great initiative in the UK! Children’s laureates campaign for £100m a year to fix primary school libraries theguardian.com/books/2021/apr…

“Ask any academic how they like to spend their free time and they’ll probably give you a wry smile. There’s no such thing as free time − not really”: @fleurjongepier and @MathijsvdSande on the perils of burnout bit.ly/2MCLf8M

Declining freedoms across the world in 2020. freedomhouse.org/report/freedom…

W.E.B. Du Bois served for more than two decades as the editor of "The Crisis," the @NAACP's official magazine. In his role, Du Bois dismantled scientific racism & helped readers better understand contemporary science of the time. #BlackHistoryAlways theconversation.com/w-e-b-du-bois-…

Even young children can learn to do research. A picture book shows how to make learning fun. politics-prose.com/book/978059311…

Why do people fall for conspiracy theories? Here are 5️⃣ ways. Learn more & inoculate yourself by diving into our 2-part Checkology® lesson on the topic, hosted by @noUpside —> bit.ly/ConsThinkingNLP #ConspiratorialThinking

Today's @pewjournalism report on measuring news consumption in a digital era finds that there is mixed evidence about the public’s understanding of newer forms of media and news – which impacts the topics survey researchers can reasonably ask about: pewrsr.ch/39Rrgw9

A delightful positive message about the role of librarians and libraries in the lives of refugees and people on the margins youtu.be/vU8t4a4cj4Q

Teaching web and news evaluation these days probably requires different strategies and tools from 10 years ago latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Perhaps assistance like this goes a long way to help us wade through so-called facts. toolbox.google.com/factcheck/expl…

Professor proves South African kids know their stuff timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/n… via @TimesLIVE

School libraries still important during COVID-19. theconversation.com/a-place-to-get…

If you want kids to love #literacy - LET THEM READ THINGS THEY LOVE! You can never be too old for a book, or the wrong gender. The books we love are the ones that make us readers, and choice is a right all readers should have. #InternationalLiteracyDay (Art: Quentin Blake)

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Very interesting video and paper on how bias creeps into information systems - think Google and algorithms information-literacy.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-bi…