Public librarians who have completed training-of-trainers programmes organized by the EIFL Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) team and partners in Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia are invited to attend this informal knowledge sharing event - a ‘T-break’, where T stands for trainers – that will continue our discussions on digital safety skills training for youth theme. 

Ugne Lipeikaite, EIFL-PLIP Impact Manager, will demonstrate how to conduct training on the topic, ‘Navigating the Truth: Identifying and Avoiding Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation’. The training has been designed for public librarians to help young people understand, identify, and avoid false, misleading, or harmful information. Ugne’s presentation is based on learning resources developed by the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington.

There will be time for questions and answers, feedback and sharing of good practice at the end of the T-break.

The aim of the T-breaks is to refresh the trainers’ knowledge, share practical experiences and to build a local and cross-border support network of public library trainers. Since 2017, EIFL has trained 62 public librarians in Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Uganda and Zambia to become trainers, and they have cascaded the training to over 2,300 librarians in their countries.