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Book Chapter

Publication Date

9-2025

Abstract

Emergency preparedness and security are comparatively new academic fields, but they have grown tremendously in the last ten years.1 Colleges and universities all over the United States and Canada are adding and expanding programs dedicated to various facets of these subjects. While the specific subtopics and focal areas can vary by program, they all explore threat assessment, risk management, and disaster mitigation in some capacity. Emergency preparedness or emergency management programs prepare students to pursue careers dealing with crisis mitigation and response, whether that crisis is a result of natural disaster, climate change, war, civil unrest, infrastructure failure, economic instability, cyberattack, or some other cause. Security programs similarly address risk and mitigation, although those programs and classes tend to focus more directly on human-caused threats such as terrorism, radicalization, and violence. Often, preparedness and/or security programs align with companion studies in environmental management, international relations, informatics and data analysis, public health, and so on. However, because preparedness and security have only recently been considered as independent fields of study, they lack the reservoir of resources available to better established academic areas.

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This is the publisher's pdf. The version of record can be found here: Abby, A. (2025). Teaching Information Literacy in the Emerging and Dynamic Fields of Preparedness and Security. In S. Libson & M. Willey (Eds.), Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline:: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework (pp. 175–184). American Library Association.

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