Orem Library

This information literacy framework, including effective metaliteracy teaching and learning practices, ensures learners can successfully navigate the proliferation of fake news, questionable content, and outright denialism of facts in today's information morass. It examines the most recent Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, four domains of metaliterate learning, and metaliteracy's relationship to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy...

This book explores the roles and ramifications of anonymity. In the virtual realm, anonymity means that such bedrock values of librarianship as privacy, free speech, and intellectual freedom coexist uneasily with the proliferation of fake news, sexist and racist sentiments, and repugnant ideologies. The book covers apps and forums that promote anonymity as a central feature, and how anonymous content has become valuable fodder for news organizations...

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and...

Raising children in the digital age comes with incredible benefits, from limitless information to endless entertainment. But there is a dark side to the infinite content available online, and one of the most pernicious dangers is the easy availability of pornography. Whether you have a preschooler playing on a tablet or a teen scrolling through their phone, it's never too late to prepare your children for the day they will inevitably be confronted...