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.

1. reading and writing the world: school libraries as sponsors of transliteracy buffy j. hamiltoncomputers in libraries 2010

2. sponsors of literacy transliteracy participatory librarianship

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

5. sponsors of literacy are delivery systems for the economies of literacy

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/

25. libraries are in the change business

26. what does transliteracy look like in a school library?

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/

28. ebooks and mobile readers

29. mobile computing

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

33. skype

34. blogging

35. teach students collaborative tools for creating and sharing knowledge

36. wikis

37. web authoring skills

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/

39. diigo

40. diigo

41. evernote

42. scaffold alternate ways of representing learning and knowledge

43. glogster

44. scanning, posting, and licensing artwork

45. multigenre elements

46. presentation zen and digital citizenship

47. teach students how to harness the power of cloud computing and social media tools to create personal learning environments and information dashboards

48. student created netvibes portal http://www.netvibes.com/samonte94#General

49. student created netvibes portal http://www.netvibes.com/alex7586#Home

50. student created netvibes portal

51. student created netvibes portal http://www.netvibes.com/euralayus#Home_Page

52. rethinking what “collection” means Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/hams-caserotti/3432780140/

53. gaming Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjoselibrary/3663348736/sizes/l/

54. manga and anime

55. virtual reference

56. digital equipment Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/skokiepl/3521970447/sizes/l/

57. our information portals and digital information streams

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>.

63. My E-Interview with Dr. Deborah Brandt

64. Students Discuss Their Netivbes Learning Portals (features student video interviews on YouTube)

65. A Student Discusses Interacting with an Expert on His Blog (features student video interview on YouTube)

66. The Unquiet Librarian Blog

67. Libraries and Transliteracy Blog

68. The Unquiet Library's Research Pathfinders at LibGuides

69. The Media 21 Project (please see this resource page 1 as well as resource page 2 )

70. Supporting Transliteracy with Evernote: Evernote for Every Literacy