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The Social Responsibility of the Library and the Librarian in a Post-Factual World
R. David Lankes Follett Chair, Dominican University
with Nicole Cooke, Miguel Figueroa, Scott Walter
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Library Response?
• Information Literacy
• Promotion of Quality
• Neutral Resource
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Library Response?
• Information Literacy
• Promotion of Quality
• Neutral Resource
When modern culture admitted that there were many important things that it still did not know, and when that
admission of ignorance was married to the idea that scientific discoveries could give us new powers, people began
suspecting that real progress might be possible after all. As science began to solve one unsolvable problem after
another, many became convinced that humankind could overcome any and every problem by acquiring and applying new knowledge. Poverty, sickness, wars, famines, old age and death itself were not the inevitable fate of humankind.
They were simply the fruits of our ignorance.
Harari, Yuval Noah (2015). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (pp. 264-265). HarperCollins.
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Library Response?
• Information Literacy
• Promotion of Quality
• Neutral Resource
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Library Response?
• Information Literacy
• Promotion of Quality
• Neutral Resource
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Library Response?
• Information Literacy
• Promotion of Quality
• Neutral Resource
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Race
Ethics
Economics
Public Policy
Social Norms
Religion
Politics
Education
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RaceEthics
EconomicsPublic Policy
Social Norms
Religion
Politics
Education
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RaceEthics
EconomicsPublic Policy
Social Norms
Religion
Politics
Education
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RaceEthics
EconomicsPublic Policy
Social Norms
Religion
Politics
Education
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RaceEthics
EconomicsPublic Policy
Social Norms
Religion
Politics
Education
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RaceEthics
EconomicsPublic Policy
Social Norms
Religion
Politics
Education
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Richland Public Library
• Goal 1: Help create a strong and resilient economy
• Goal 2: Strengthen community cohesion
• Goal 3: Transform educational outcomes for youth
• Goal 4: Help break the cycle of poverty
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