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The libraries are the institutions showing the society they are located in as well as cultural inheritage of the area. Whenever crisis occur, the books’ stock, and any other event ran by libraries and librarians get a new approach when people start considering national, cultural, and personal identity in situations such as war, revolution, or any other natural disaster. Crisis may add value to access to collections once thought secure. As Rayward notes, both “social continuity and social change are dependent on and supported by” the information infrastructure provided by institutions such as libraries (Rayward and Jenkins, 2007, p. 362). The role of librarians and information literacy experts is crucial in order to fight the fake news and rumours whether they were deliberately being spread out as a part of media war or as a consequence of non-well informed sources of information. Not only in order to avoid any confusion and even more chaos that may occur as the result of fear that misinformation or disinformation can cause but also to offer the trustful and verified information, the role of librarians and information literacy experts is significant.

information literacy; the role of librarians; the role of experts; libraries in a crisis period; fakes; misinformation: disinformation