Abstract Librarians empower learners to become discerning citizens through a set of diverse skills and literacies. To cultivate critical thinkers, librarians continue to build innovative practices, even as technology rapidly evolves. However, the pervasiveness of misinformation and disinformation, most recently seen in the conspiratorial worldviews of QAnon, challenges librarians to center critical thinking in their information literacy praxis. In this article, we provide a concise overview of QAnon and the problems that contemporary internet conspiracy theories like it pose. We offer an epistemological shift for information literacy, from heuristics to mindsets and behaviors, drawing on disciplines external to librarianship. Finally, we consider the role that emotions play in the promotion and spread of conspiracism. Equipping librarians with a better understanding of conspiracy thinking and the tools to counter it will in turn empower the next generation of critical thinkers.

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图书馆员行动呼吁：反对 QAnon 时代的阴谋论

摘要 图书馆员通过一系列不同的技能和素养使学习者成为有眼光的公民。为了培养批判性思维者，图书馆员继续建立创新实践，即使技术迅速发展。然而，错误信息和虚假信息的普遍存在，最近在 QAnon 的阴谋世界观中看到，挑战图书馆员将批判性思维集中在他们的信息素养实践中。在本文中，我们简要概述了 QAnon 以及类似它的当代互联网阴谋论所带来的问题。我们提供信息素养的认识论转变，从启发式到思维方式和行为，借鉴图书馆学之外的学科。最后，我们考虑情绪在阴谋论的传播和传播中所起的作用。