Hi everyone, just a quick FYI email. A new library service is available today through Libby/The Digital Catalog to help you make sense of what news, found online, is factual and what stories are likely to be made-up, instead of credible news stories.
This new service is called Ground News and it offers you the tools to:
Compare 50,000 news sources in one convenient place
Get media bias and factuality ratings for news outlets
See how news stories are covered across the political spectrum
Balance your news diet with the My News Bias dashboard
And it is available in: English, Spanish, French
If you use the Libby app to check out library eBooks, eAudiobooks and magazines, you’ll see Ground News listed as a new offering when you open the app, if you’re using a smartphone, it should look like this:
And you just tap on the Ground News icon to access it.
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And if you use The Digital Catalog (that’s the web browser accessed version of Libby); just click on the following link*:
https://stls.overdrive.com/extras/ground-news
The Ground News services looks like this via a web browser:
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Have a great day everyone & as always, if you have questions about library materials or services, please ask the staff – we love questions in Library Land!
Linda
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* The Digital Catalog is found online at https://stls.overdrive.com/ and it should shortly have the new Ground News services prominently displayed on the home page; which it does not at the moment – thus my sharing the direct link to Ground News.
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