School libraries can act as sponsors of transliteracy by supporting multiple ways of accessing and interacting with information across different platforms and media. As transliteracy involves reading, writing and interacting with various tools and media, school libraries should provide resources like ebooks, mobile devices, collaborative tools and social media to teach students skills in these areas. Libraries can also support transliteracy by rethinking collections, services and learning spaces to accommodate new literacies and media. By acting as sponsors of transliteracy, school libraries can help students develop important skills and close participation gaps.
3. “literacy is the energy supply of the information age.” deborah brandt
4. a sponsor of literacy includes any agent who enables, supports, teaches, and models, as well as recruits, regulates, suppresses, or withholds literacy—and gains advantage by it in some way
6. Brandt views literacy as a “valuable—and volatile property” that can potentially help individuals gain “…power or pleasure, [accrue] information, civil rights, education, spirituality, status, [and] money”
7. an examination of a person’s literacy sponsors, “… exposes the deeply textured history that lies within the literacy practices of institutions and within any individuals’ literacy experiences. Accumulated layers of sponsoring influences---in families, workplaces, schools, memory----carry forms of literacy that have been shaped out of ideological and economic struggles of the past.” deborah brandt Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericsbinaryworld/2720772989/sizes/l/
8. all literacy sponsors, past, present, and future, shape a person’s literacy learning, literacy development, and literacy opportunities
9. “this means that our democratic institutions (schools and libraries particularly) have to work hard and thoughtfully to mitigatethese forces.” Deborah Brandt
10. knight foundation recommendation 6: integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements for education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials
11. “we have to make sure schools and libraries invite critical and active uses of media that strengthen our democratic potential.” Deborah Brandt
12. “as new and powerful forms of literacy emerge, they diminish the reach and possibilities of receding ones”deborah brandt
13. the idea that literacy is only about print materials is slowly disappearing
14. helping patrons and stakeholders understand the expanding definition of literacy is a muddy but playful endeavor cc licensed flickr photo by harold.lloyd (won't somebody think of the bokeh?): http://flickr.com/photos/safetylast/4068790874/
15. we're on the cusp of profound changes in what counts as a “text” and literacy
16. transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/somegeekintn/3368983089/sizes/l/
17. as sponsors of transliteracy, libraries can close the participation gap
18. how can school libraries function as sponsors of transliteracy? Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleaf/2536358399/sizes/l/
19. how do we invite and facilitate conversations about transliteracy with our patrons?
20. a participatory climate is conducive to a library program acting as a powerful and positive sponsor of transliteracy
21. participatory librarianship is about inviting and creating spaces for … cc licensed flickr photo by Suttonhoo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/2512983749/
22. inviting and engaging participation cc licensed flickr photo by domesticat: http://flickr.com/photos/domesticat/2538309841/
23. sparking conversations cc licensed flickr photo by Laenulfean: http://flickr.com/photos/laenulfean/2913482048/
24. knowledge construction and creation cc licensed flickr photo by Ian Muttoo: http://flickr.com/photos/imuttoo/2631466945/
27. privilege and support multiple containers and pathways to information Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/grumbler/331346446/sizes/l/
30. ereaders Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdewey/3374674246/sizes/l/
31. research pathfinders that reflect the changing nature of social scholarship with tools such as rss, social networks, videos, mashups, and other information feeds
32. teach students multiple and dynamic ways of connecting with real world experts to help answer their questions
38. Teach students social bookmarking tools for tagging and organizing favorite web resources as well as a research tool in one’s personal learning network Image Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dav/104349246/sizes/l/
47. teach students how to harness the power of cloud computing and social media tools to create personal learning environments and information dashboards
58. the possibilities are challenging but exciting Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/huangjiahui/3127634297/sizes/l/
59. re-envision literacy from alternate and multiple perspectives cc licensed photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/laprimadonna/3559930813/sizes/m//
60. libraries’ efforts as sponsors of transliteracy can create ripple effects in the lives of our patrons
61. works cited Brandt, Deborah. “In Their Own Words: Students Provide a Video Tour of Their Netvibes Learning Portals .” Interview by Buffy Hamilton. The Unquiet Librarian. N.p., 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 8 Apr. 2010. <http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/sponsors-of-literacy-in- contemporary-culture-an-e-interview-with-dr-deborah-brandt/>. Brandt, D. (2001). Literacy in American Lives. New York: Cambridge University Press. Hamilton, Buffy. “In Their Own Words: Students Provide a Video Tour of Their Netvibes Learning Portals .” The Unquiet Librarian. N.p., 26 Mar. 2010. Web. 8 Apr. 2010. <http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/in-their-own-words-students-provide- a-video-tour-of-their-netvibes-learning-portals/>. The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. “Recommendation 6.” The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, 2 Oct. 2009. Web. 8 Apr. 2010. <http://www.knightcomm.org/recommendation6/>. Lankes, R. David. “Introduction.” The Participatory Librarianship Starter Kit. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Apr. 2010. <http://ptbed.org/intro.php>.