Media literacy in community projects against disinformation was the title of a presentation delivered by Vitor Tomé at the 22nd BAD Regional Meeting in the Azores, held at the Atlântida Cine Centro de Cultura, Museu de Santa Maria, on 25 and 26 September. The event’s theme was “Challenges and innovations: information professionals in the current context.”

The presentation, which took place on 25 September, highlighted the AlgoWatch toolkit and other project resources. It also served to present preliminary results from the ‘Media and Information Literacy – Community Connections’ project, which focuses on training information professionals in MIL, recognising the crucial and trusted role of libraries in communities.

Three specific project outcomes were detailed: a course for information professionals (available in Portuguese, Spanish, and English); a strategy for creating and monitoring community MIL projects from within libraries (currently being validated in Portugal, Spain, and Ireland); and a European network of libraries focused on combating disinformation through media literacy.