Chisita, Collence Takaingenhamo, <br/><br/>
Library and media roles in information hygiene and managing information / 
by Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, Alexander Madanha Rusero, Ngoako Solomon Marutha, Josiline Phiri Chigwada, and Oluwole Olumide Durodolu. 
 - USA  IGI Global  2022 
 - xvi, 268p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Digital archiving to spearhead access to heritage information for all interested clients in Africa -- Archival institutions to worry about records management  modus operandi for impact on their future holdings -- Confronting Information hygiene in the COVID-19 pandemic era in Zimbabwe libraries: Views from selected LIS practitioners -- Opportunities and challenges offered by the "new normal" in the book value chain -- Analysis of information disorder caused by COVID-19 and how to practice information hygiene: A librarian perspective -- Myths, fake news, tirades and diatribes and the COVID-19 pandemic. What can libraries do? -- Dual tragedy of infodemic in a pandemic: Exploring the ramifications of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe -- In the heat of the COVID-19 vaccine apartheid: Where do libraries stand? -- The changing role of library and information professionals in the new normal: Towards a new trajectory -- Collaborative approach for successful information literacy skills: A panacea for information hygiene -- Information and digital literacy in the new normal: Dealing with fake news and misinformation in institutions of higher learning -- Arresting infodemic proliferation in the advent of Covid-19: Unpacking practical strategies in confronting fake news -- Archives to warrant hygiene in the information housed in a repository -- Information pollution! Threat to knowledge? Application of information hygiene as a panacea for combating information disorder. 
<br/><br/> "The book explores the concept of information hygiene from a myriad of angles including but not limited to digital archiving, records management, libraries and information science, production and publishing, media, politics of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinations, twenty-first century literacies and information management among others"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781799887157 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Libraries and public health.<br/>Libraries and public health--Africa.<br/>COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-<br/>Information literacy.<br/>Media literacy.<br/>Fake news.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>021.28 CHI/LIB