Slides from my talk at ACRL/NY 2011. December 2, 2011. Baruch College, New York, NY.
Read a summary explanation at: http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/skills-that-transfer/
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Skills That Transfer: Transliteracy and the Global Librarian (ACRL/NY 2011 Symposium)
1. Skills that Travel
Transliteracy and the
Global Librarian
Lane Wilkinson
ACRL/NY Annual Symposium
December 2, 2011 http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbeychristine/2882946249
2. What does
it take to be
a global
librarian? Diverse
populations
Variety of
platforms
Progressive
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technologies
3. For a global librarian
âphysical distance is no
longer a barrier to
teaching and learning.â
4. âI have long contended that a room
full of books is simply a closet but that
an empty room with a librarian in it is
a library.â
-R. David Lankes
The Atlas of New Librarianship, p. 16
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13. Information Literacy 2.0:
Facilitating Participatory Learning Culture
through Transliteracy:
The Synergy of Collaborative Student-Centered
Learning Communities and Open-Access
Knowledge Construction
Lane Wilkinson
ACRL/NY Annual Symposium
December 2, 2011
14. Transliteracy is not a panacea
So, what is it?
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15. 2005
Transliteracies Project
2007
What is Sue Thomas,
transliteracy? DeMontfort University
2010
Libraries & Transliteracy
16. The ability to read,
write and interact
What is across a range of
transliteracy? platforms, tools
and media.
[PART 2007]
17. [It is] understanding the
ways various means of
communication interact
and understandingâŠthe
What is skills necessary to move
transliteracy? effortlessly from one
medium to another.
-Ipri, T. (2010) Introducing Transliteracy. College &
Research Libraries News, 71(10), 532-567.
18. âThe most
fundamental notion of
transliteracy is the
ability to adapt. Itâs
creating a literacy and
What is fluidity between
transliteracy? mediums thatâs not
tied to space or
modality.â
- Karp, J. (2010, Oct 25). What is this buzz word
âtransliteracyâ? (Blog) Retrieved from
http://spotlight.macfound.org
19. It isnât a concept we
What is
teach, itâs an innate
transliteracy? skill we develop.
22. What about
information literacy?
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23. Why do we need another literacy?
Print Scientific
Orality Health
Signing Economic
Visual Cultural
Computer Critical
Digital Media
Communication Evaluation
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24. Why do we need another literacy?
Print Scientific
Orality Health
Signing Economic
Visual Cultural
Computer Critical
Digital Media
Transliteracy Information Literacy
25. The birth of the web made it necessary for
librarians to shift more towards teaching search
strategies and evaluation of sources. The tool-
focused âbibliographic instructionâ approach was
later replaced by the skill-focused âinformation
literacyâ approach.
Meredith Farkas
American Libraries Magazine
11/01/2011
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26.
27. Information literacy is about
evaluating content, not containers.
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43. 3
Identify skills
that transfer
across tools,
platforms,
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44. The question posed
by transliteracy is:
âAre we
encouraging
skills that
transfer?â
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45. Transfer of learning
The ability to transfer
cognitive skills
learned in one domain
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to a new domain.
65. Thank you
senseandreference.wordpress.com
librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com
66. Selected Reading
Gentner, D. & Colhoun, J. (2010). Analogical processes in human thinking and
learning. In Glatzeder, B., Goel, V., and von Muller, A. (2010). Towards a Theory
of Thinking. New York: Springer. 35-48.
Holman, L. (2011). Millennial studentsâ mental models of search: implications for
academic librarians and database developers. Journal of Academic
Librarianship, 37(1): 19-27.
Ipri, T. (2010) Introducing Transliteracy. College & Research Libraries News, 71(10),
532-567.
Karp, J. (2010, Oct 25). What is this buzz word âtransliteracyâ? (Blog) Retrieved from
http://spotlight.macfound.org
Lankes, R. D. (2011). The Atlas of New Librarianship. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Thomas, S., et al. (2007). Transliteracy: crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12). Online.
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