ACRL Webinar Viewing Party: Fighting Fake News with the ACRL Framework - August 2, 2017.

The Academic Library Division of the Georgia Library Association would like to invite you to two free ACRL webinar viewing parties.  Please register for one or both of the webinars using the links below so that we can let our host locations know how many to expect.

Viewing parties will be held simultaneously at the University of Georgia in Athens, Augusta University in Augusta, University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, and Armstrong State University in Savannah.  Directions and parking information will be sent about a week before the viewings.


Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Essentials of Usability Design for Library Research Guides
Register: https://goo.gl/AJvr5J
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST

Description: Web design, in the form of creating online research guides, has become a big part of many librarians’ jobs, but we’re rarely taught how to do it well. Most of us learn the nuts and bolts of how to make guides, without learning the principles of how to make them usable -- the simple techniques of visual and textual design  that can help us create guides that users will understand more easily, and stick around to use.  Learn about easy to use principles of usability that can immediately improve your research guides.


Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Fighting Fake News with the ACRL Framework
Register: https://goo.gl/ekBthp
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST

Description: Explore strategies and techniques for teaching people the literacy skills they need to combat fake news. Examine factors, both historic and new, that contribute to the proliferation of fake news. Explore connections between information and news literacy skills. Discover ways to apply more traditional research and information literacy skills, such as source evaluation skills, to addressing fake news, and gain ideas for new, interactive ways to help students handle fake news and misinformation.