The mission of the Arizona Library Association shall be to promote library service and librarianship in libraries of all types in the state of Arizona.

• Developed statewide materials purchasing contracts
• Lobbied and obtained the end of use taxes on books
• Provide continuing education credits for school librarians
• Sponsor the Horner Fellowship
• Provide regional forums to obtain statewide input to the association
• Nominate young librarians to the Snowbird Leadership Institute

Webinar Description:  

A thriving democracy depends on a society that can tell fiction from fact. Indeed, news literacy is more important than ever as disinformation campaigns strengthen. In the webinar News Literacy for Arizona, participants will learn about the importance of news literacy, the dangers of disinformation, the effects of algorithms on the information we consume, the difference between journalism and propaganda, and the importance of a diverse news diet. This webinar is based on a free workshop that all libraries can book for their patrons or staff.

Presenter: 

Michelle Beaver is founder and director of News Literacy for Arizona. She's reported full time for the Associated Press and Bay Area News Group, freelances extensively and is a teaching artist for Arizona State University's Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. She's a Flinn-Brown Fellow (bestowed from the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership), ghost wrote a New York Times best-selling health book and wrote two Dummies health books. She's taught journalism at Arizona State University and Scottsdale Community College.