--- title: How Librarians Can Save Us From Fake News description: Maybe librarians can save us from fake news, voters might be tired of politics but still love democracy and more. canonical: https://time.com/4574854/how-librarians-can-save-us-from-fake-news/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-17T17:00:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:19.308Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Librarians Can Save Us From Fake News og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4574854/how-librarians-can-save-us-from-fake-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Librarians Can Save Us From Fake News twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Librarians Can Save Us From Fake News by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 17, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 17, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Maybe librarians can save us from fake news.**](http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13637294/school-libraries-information-literacy-fake-news-election-2016) By Kaitlyn Tiffany in the Verge **2\.** [**Voters might be tired of politics, but they still love democracy.**](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/pew-research-democracy-richard-wike/) By Richard Wike at the World Economic Forum **3\.** [**Rising insurance costs might help cities tackle police misconduct.**](https://priceonomics.com/could-rising-insurance-premiums-eradicate-unlawful/) By Ben Christopher in Priceonomics **4\.** [**America’s unprecedented election is giving teachers a chance to revive civics education.**](http://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2016/1116/Teaching-civics-in-an-age-of-Trump) By Josh Kenworthy at the Christian Science Monitor **5\.** [**This is why good nonprofit jobs matter.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/why-good-nonprofit-jobs-matter) By Molly M. Scott at the Urban Institute  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4574854/how-librarians-can-save-us-from-fake-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4574854/how-librarians-can-save-us-from-fake-news/"},"headline":"How Librarians Can Save Us From Fake News","datePublished":"2016-11-17T17:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:19.308Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4574854/how-librarians-can-save-us-from-fake-news/","keywords":["Innovation","politics","Education","Insurance","Library"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4574854/how-librarians-can-save-us-from-fake-news/","name":"How Librarians Can Save Us From Fake News"}}]}] ```