Serving the community with trustworthy government information and data: What can we learn from the public librarians?

Zhu, Xiaohua; Cowell, Ellen; McBee, Kristen; Headrick, Jonathan S.; Winberry, Joseph

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Title

Serving the community with trustworthy government information and data: What can we learn from the public librarians?

Author(s)

• Zhu, Xiaohua
• Cowell, Ellen
• McBee, Kristen
• Headrick, Jonathan S.
• Winberry, Joseph

Issue Date

2019-09-24

Keyword(s)

• Government information
• Open government data
• Public libraries
• Trust
• Data literacy

Abstract

The role of public librarians in mediating and providing access to government information and data becomes more critical than ever in the face of new threats to the trustworthiness of government information and the availability of data. Interviewing reference librarians in four county library systems, the study tries to find out how library and information science (LIS) education can help future public librarians prepare for their roles in mediating government information and data in the global context.

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• Information governance
• Public libraries
• Data science

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