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Questions for a Crisis (Book Review)

Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information
By Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin (Routledge, 2022)
Reviewed by Barbara Fister

In a new book, two Swedish LIS researchers lay out a series of “paradoxes” that face librarians and others who struggle to align their media and information literacy programs with the needs of the present moment, drilling deeply into issues that practitioners will find familiar – and enormously challenging.

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A Review of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity

Josh Linkner wrote the book Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity in 2011. The book seems to be focused mostly for people in the corporate world, and there are references in the book that show examples relevant to sales, advertising, and marketing professionals. However, there is a good bit of content that can be used by librarians who work in non-profit organizations or higher education.

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