Tx la conference 2012 final

libraries andthe future oftransliteracy lane wilkinson houston, tx april 20, 2012 CPE#535

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Blogs Presentations WebsitesWhere you’ll find Journals transliteracy Conferences Job descriptions Job titles

Social media Digital literacy Some things Ebookstransliteracy is Participatory not… Open Access New librarianship Library 2.0

Transliteracythe ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms, tools, and media.

A brief history of transliteracy

2005The Transliteracies Project “Text has historicallyexisted as a negotiation between media, including oral, written, print, visual, and… electronic media.” (Liu 2006)

2005The Transliteracies Project Studying “the zone ofnegotiation…by which the older dialogue among print, writing,orality, and audiovisualmedia…enters into new relations with digital media.” (Liu 2006)

2007PART: Productionand Research in TransliteracyThe ability to read, write and interact across arange of platforms, tools and media. (Thomas, et al., 2007)

2007PART: Productionand Research in Transliteracy “Transliteracy is an umbrella termencompassing different literacies and multiple communication channels.” (Andretta 2009)

2010 Libraries and Transliteracy“Transliteracy began as a descriptive concept,designed to understand how people navigatetheir way across various media.” (Newman 2011)

2010 Libraries and Transliteracy“[It is] understanding the ways various means ofcommunication interactand understanding…theskills necessary to move effortlessly from one medium to another.” (Ipri 2010)

What do all of these approaches have in common?

1. Multiple media

2. Communication

3. Interaction

Transliteracy is the ability to communicate meaning between media

Why is transliteracy relevant to librarians?

Libraries have always promoted literacy

Literacy has alwaysbeen mediated by information technology

So, technologyinfluences how we can and should promote literacy

But, amultiplicity oftechnologies can be a logistical nightmare

Transliteracy helps us promote literacyacross technological barriers

The three pillars in more detail

Multiple media

Once upon a time… …literacy was simple.

Then, something changed…

We invented new tools to communicate

We found new places to communicate

We found new time to communicate

We’ve always had choices

Just never quite so many

economic social orality financial statistical economic meta web healthnew media information literacy cultural print digital critical visual computer scientific historical electracy post- visual financial numeracy

There’s got tobe a betterway

Communication

The birth of the web made it necessary forlibrarians to shift more towards teachingsearch strategies and evaluation ofsources. The tool-focused “bibliographicinstruction” approach was later replacedby the skill-focused “information literacy”approach.Meredith FarkasAmerican Libraries Magazine11/01/2011http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/practice/information-literacy-20

The end of the “tool-focused approach”

But, information isn’t just evaluated

Information is used

Information iscommunicated

But doesn’tinformation literacy cover that?

Transliteracy and information literacy Print Scientific Orality Health Signing Economic Visual Cultural Computer Critical Digital Media

We can be literate without being able to evaluate

We can be information literatewithout being tech-savvy

Transliteracy and information literacy Print Scientific Orality Health Signing Economic Visual Cultural Computer Critical Digital Media Communication Evaluation

Transliteracy and information literacy Print Scientific Orality Health Signing Economic Visual Cultural Computer Critical Digital Media Transliteracy Information Literacy

We’ve done a great job with evaluation

Transliteracy is about bringing ourattention back to communication

Interaction

Transliteracy is also about asking: “How are all of these literacies & technologies supposed to interact?”

How have librarians dealt with interaction and integration?

Librarians lovecompartments

But patrons don’t

The “versus” mentality doesn’t cut it anymore

Informationresources are linked

Transliteracy is about avoiding silos

Caveat:It’s not just digital

Analog to analog

Analog to digital

Digital to digital

Transliteracy isaboutthe network

Transliteracy is an intersection… Multiple media Communication Interaction

Transliteracy and librarianship

Librarians encourage transliteracy by adopting programming andteaching strategies that promote skill transfer across media

Transliteracy is not something we teachTransliteracy is something we take advantage of

1. Effective information use requires multiple information sources

The days of “one medium” research are over.

Yet we tendto focus onthe resourcesthat we know

To distinguishourselves fromthe web we often put up defensive walls

But, patrons will usenon-library resources

And they’rerunning rightinto the wallswe’ve beenbuilding

Get comfortable with non-library resources

Show how the library fits in

2. Identify skills that can adapt

How are youpreparing your patrons for change? Your staff? Yourself?

An example

Can your patrons still use it?

Identify skills that will outlast change

3. Encourage skills that transferacross platforms, tools, and media

The question posed by transliteracy is: “Are we encouraging skills that transfer?”

Transfer of learning The ability to transfer cognitive skills learned in one domain to a new domain

Encourage skills that will adjust

Start from patrons’ existing mentalmodels of libraries (Holman 2011)

And teach the analogy1) Candidate inferences2) Schema abstraction3) Re-representation (Gentner & Colhoun 2010)

Begin with what they know

Encourage inference through analogy

Show how it works,not just how to use it

Give ample time for free play

The library is reinforced as a node in the network

Wikipedia before class

Google versus the Library

You moved off-campus, but now you’ve got roaches!Where’s the best place to find out which bug-spray ismost effective?A. Off.comB. The Journal of EntomologyC. Yahoo! AnswersD. Ask Grandma The library is not (always) the answer

Teaching the analogy

The world of information

Ample time to experiment

Social media training

Workshops and beyond…

We constantly ask:How can we makethe library a partof their network?

That’s the core of transliteracy

It’s not a set of skills

It’s a goal

Conclusion?

The future of transliteracy?

There’s still something of value

We still have to deal withmultiple media

We still have to deal withcommunication

We still have to deal withhow it all fits together

So, how do we get there?

Transliteracy is the ability to read,write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media

It’s about communicating meaning across media.

The word ‘transliteracy’ may not last

But, the need fortransliteracy willalways be around

Thank you senseandreference.wordpress.comlibrariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com

ReferencesAndretta, S. (2009). Transliteracy: Take a walk on the wild side. In World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA Genreal Conference and Assembly, Milan, Italy: 23-27. http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/14868Farkas, M. (2011). Information literacy 2.0. American Libraries [Blog post]. November 1, 2011. Available at: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns/practice/information-literacy-20Gentner, 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. Heidelburg: Springer. 35-48.Holman, L. (2011). Millennial students’ 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), 532-567Liu, A. (2006). Definition of Online Reading. http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/category/research- project/definition-of-online-readingNewman, B. (2011). Beginner’s guide to transliteracy. Available online at http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/beginner’s-guide-to-transliteracy/Thomas, S., et al. (2007) Transliteracy: crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12). Online. http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060/1908

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