{"id":405,"date":"2012-10-25T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/25\/question-a-politicians-statement-librarians-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:23","slug":"question-a-politicians-statement-librarians-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/25\/question-a-politicians-statement-librarians-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Question a politician&#8217;s statement?  Librarians to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TDLUvbSHto8\/UIk2o0l1QVI\/AAAAAAAAAE8\/568ojSu_QJk\/s1600\/livingVotersGuide.gif\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TDLUvbSHto8\/UIk2o0l1QVI\/AAAAAAAAAE8\/568ojSu_QJk\/s1600\/livingVotersGuide.gif\" \/><\/a>Who better than a research librarian to check facts on the campaign trail? <\/p>\n<p>A Washington (state) non-partisan election guide, <a href=\"https:\/\/wash.livingvotersguide.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living Voters Guide<\/a>, offers callers the expertise of reference librarians from the Seattle Public Library in fact-checking each comment\/post on an election issue.&nbsp; Although the issues concern Washington state referenda, it highlights the value of research librarians who have experience digging through reports and statistics to clarify the statements made by politicians.&nbsp; So while Maryland doesn&#8217;t have librarians connected with similar online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vote411.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">voter guides<\/a>, you can always check a fact here at UB or your local library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who better than a research librarian to check facts on the campaign trail? A Washington (state) non-partisan election guide, Living Voters Guide, offers callers the expertise of reference librarians from the Seattle Public Library in fact-checking each comment\/post on an <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/25\/question-a-politicians-statement-librarians-to-the-rescue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Question a politician&#8217;s statement?  Librarians to the rescue<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,309,42,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}