Anyone who wants to study history needs access to primary sources—copies of the documents, photographs, recordings, and other content created during the period being studied. Historians turn to primary sources... read more →

Prior to the pandemic, online study was deemed inferior to the norm of learning in a classroom. While you might’ve completed the odd online workplace training course or distance learning... read more →

To help promote your library’s Infobase resources and connect with your patrons, we have created social media posts for you to share on your social platforms.  The suggested posts feature... read more →

Though media and information literacy have been taught in various pedagogical settings in the past, the task had mostly fallen to those whose training was directly related to it, such... read more →

Lately on social media, I have been encountering many interesting digital archives focusing on regions from around the world. Some of these resources can also be applied for teaching purposes... read more →

In this blog series, I have referred several times to the concept of “modern challenges” to teaching news literacy, and at the risk of sounding repetitive, I will refer again... read more →

There are a number of challenges to teaching news literacy today, not least of which is that news literacy inherently involves reading, well, the news. As we all know, our... read more →

Why Is the Term “Fake News” Problematic? You may have heard the term “fake news” in recent years used to describe misrepresented or falsified information. The problem of inaccurate and... read more →

The modern information landscape is flooded with thousands of news and “news-like” sources. The sheer volume of these sources presents a unique challenge to each one of us being news... read more →

In our recent webinar on Navigating the News Landscape with the Media Bias Chart, Vanessa Otero, CEO of Ad Fontes Media, discussed the challenges educators face in teaching students how... read more →

There are many “unprecedented” things about the world today, and teaching news literacy in our current information environment is certainly one of them. Never before have there been so many... read more →

In our recent webinar on The First Year Transition: Supporting Incoming College Students with Infobase in Uncertain Times and Beyond, Lisa Hill, Product Marketing Manager, explored how Credo Reference, Writer’s... read more →