Digital literacy and civic engagement go together, hand-in-hand. Our civic institutions will be stronger if community members can recognize misinformation, navigate and participate online, and take action to protect against technological threats. Here are a few online tools to help our users recognize misinformation and protect their information security.
Data literacy: the ability to derive meaningful information from data, just as literacy in general is the ability to derive information from the written word
Media literacy: provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and participate with messages in a variety of forms, from print to video to the Internet; builds an understanding of the role of media in a society, as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy
Privacy: freedom from intrusion in personal matters of patrons
Confidentiality: protects the information that has been shared with you
Intellectual freedom: the rights of patrons to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment
