Notary Service Suspended for May

Due to staffing changes, Notary service will not be available at the Library for the month of May, 2024.

West Des Moines City Hall offers free Notary services – please contact them ahead of time to arrange an appointment.

You can also search for Notaries in your area through the State’s Notary Search tool.

Digital Literacy & Democracy in the 21st Century - Part 2: Social media, misinformation and how to better connect to your neighbors and local ideas

Program Type:

Program

Age Group:

Adults
Please note you are looking at an event that has already happened.

Event Details

In his first session on digital literacy & democracy, Drake STEM Librarian Dan Chibnall looked at how our new technologies & ways of communicating make the work of democracy more complicated. In this second session he will continue with that theme by exploring how we can become more aware of new (and old) tricks & problems that arise in our society because of new technology. He will focus on what we should be nervous about, hopeful about, how misinformation has become a larger problem, how social media can truly help connect us & learn, and how libraries can be more essential than ever to this entire process.