IFLA MLCE Guidelines for Effective, Easy to Implement, low-to-no Resource Media Literacy Interventions for Libraries and Information Professionals 📝
01 May 2025
We are glad to share the output of this project with the library community!
The guidelines are a key output of the Media Literacy Case for Educators (MLCE) project that ran under the ‘Everywhere, All the Time’ exhibit and workshops.
The guidelines describe on one side, the resource creation and knowledge sharing process from the library staff perspective and from the other side, the observations that came out of conducting the exhibit and workshops with people from different ages and backgrounds.
The project addressed the themes of: Screentime and wellbeing, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models, Environmental impact of technology, Gaming and the Labor behind technology.
The results are timely as they provide clarity on some modern paradoxes such as teenagers and young people being digital natives with high exposure to technology, but often lacking awareness of its ethical implications, environmental impact and of the invisible systems that sustain it. For adults and other age groups there was also a significant mismatch between exposure to content and understanding.
Beyond the above reflections and the impact achieved, this report is also a means to center the experience of librarians and educators and to highlight the multi-purpose capabilities of libraries, in particular when it comes to digital literacy.
IFLA MLCE Guidelines for effective, easy to implement, low-to-no resource media literacy interventions for libraries and information professionals
The Media Literacy Case for Educators (MLCE) project aimed to increase societal resilience by giving teachers, trainers and librarians across Europe the skills, tools and resources they need to be effective, innovative, future-fit advocates and facilitators of media literacy. While different types o...
The resources of the MLCE were designed to be scalable and contextualized. They are currently being translated to other languages to ensure they reach out other countries and regions. Would you like to use the MLCE materials to host an exhibit and workshops in your library?, Click here to let us know!
