Teaching About Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences

Candice Benjes-Small began her career at the University of Southern California and since 2001 has worked at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. She is the head of information literacy and outreach and university coordinator of information literacy for the general education curriculum. Under her leadership, the library instruction program has been recognized as an Exemplary Information Literacy program in numerous categories by the ACRL. She has served as president of the Virginia chapter of ACRL (VLACRL) and is active on numerous VLACRL committees. She and Rebecca K. Miller founded The Innovative Library Classroom, a very popular regional information literacy conference that won the 2016 Beta Phi Mu Conference Support Award. She has written numerous publications on information literacy and was lead author on an article about cognitive development and web evaluation which was selected as a Top 20 article by the Library Instruction Round Table. She is also an instructor for the Library Juice Academy on library instruction assessment.

Carol Wittig is the head of research & instruction at Boatwright Library, University of Richmond (Virginia). She has her MLS from Kent State University, a MA in English from University of Akron, and is currently ABD in the English PhD Program at Old Dominion University. Her research focuses on the historical development and intersections of academic and library literacies using a three-level analysis through text mining of LOEX and library journals across the last 50+ years. Prior to earning her MLS, she taught First Year Writing and Composition at the University of Akron and continued to blend her library career with adjunct teaching over the last 25 years. She has also taught information literacy and instruction as an adjunct for the University of Maryland’s ischool at Shady Grove. Carol started her library career as assistant director at Southwest Texas Junior College/Sul Ross State College in Uvalde, Texas. She worked as assistant head of reference at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), library director at Clark State Community College (Springfield, Ohio), and was a military base librarian at the U.S. Air Force Airfield in Chièvres, Belgium, part of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces Europe (SHAPE). She has published and presented on a range of writing and literacy topics, including a localized study of first-year students’ use of sources inspired by the Citation Project, critical reading and literacies, and has a forthcoming ACRL book chapter on critical reading using Swales’ Moves and BEAM.

Mary K. Oberlies is the Undergraduate Engagement Librarian and Assistant Librarian at the University of Oregon. She received her MAIS from the University of Missouri-Columbia, an MA in Violence, Terrorism, and Security from Queen's University at Belfast, and a BA in International Studies from Berry College.