Presentation by Dr Marta Bustillo, College Liaison Librarian, University College Dublin Library, at the ARLIS UK and Ireland Annual Conference - "[R]evolution: Re-imagining the Art Library" on 13 July, 2017, at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

1. Visual Resources Librarianship and
Information Literacy
Using the Metaliteracy Framework to teach a workshop on putting
humanities content online
Marta Bustillo, College Liaison Librarian, University College Dublin Library

2. Visual
Resources
Librarianship

3. Overview
➔ VR Librarians and information literacy
➔ Case study: Workshop at Trinity
College Dublin
➔ The Metaliteracy Framework as
inspiration
➔ How the framework can work outside
Visual Resources librarianship

4. VR librarians & Digital literacy

6. Case study: Putting your humanities content online

7. DRIS at the Trinity Long Room Hub

8. “I didn’t realise librarians would know about
Omeka and VRA Core plugins”
(PhD Student based at the Trinity Long Room Hub)

9. Workshop for
Telling our
Story at the
Trinity Long
Room Hub

10. The Metaliteracy Framework

11. Metaliteracy
Framework

12. Metaliteracy framework’s four
domains:
BEHAVIOURAL
COGNITIVE
AFFECTIVE
METACOGNITIVE

13. Metaliteracy framework’s four
domains:
BEHAVIOURAL
COGNITIVE
AFFECTIVE
METACOGNITIVE

14. Practical
learning
outcomes

15. Our aims
Help them assess their
learning needs &
reflect on their own
understanding of the
issues covered
Change researchers’
perceptions of library
expertise in the digital
domain
Change their attitudes
towards their own
reasearch data & their
role as data creators

16. WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
1. Project initiation and planning
10:00-10.20: Questions every project needs to ask
10:20-10:30: Lightning talk by Ciaran O’Neill: Public engagement
with archive/ historical sources and citation
10:30 – 10:40: Project lifecycle
10:40-10:50: Lightning talk by Dermot Frost: Research IT
10:50-11:10: Activity 1: Apply project checklist to specific
project
11:10-11:30: Coffee break
2. Organising and describing your digital assets
11:30-11:45: Effective organisation for your digital assets
11:45-11.55: Lightning talk by Mark Sweetnam: Scholarly
communications with digital humanities projects
11:55-12:15: Describing your digital assets: Metadata standards
12:15-12:25: Lighting talk by Jennifer Edmond: CENDARI
12:25 – 12:45: Activity 2: Describe a digital asset according to a
recognised metadata standard
12:45-13:00: Intellectual property rights issues

17. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
texts
oral
history
interviewsYOUR STUFF
photographs
maps
other GIS information
music
recordings
artwork
quantitative data video

18. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Relationships between assets
William Patrick Hone
(1886-ca. 1960), TCD
School of Engineering.
2nd Canadian Division
of Engineers

19. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Relationships between assets
Letters
to his
family
from the
front
Oral
history
interview?
Transcript
of
interview?
GIS
information
about
battle
sites
Photos of
other TCD
students in
same
regiment?

20. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Publishing your own intellectual content: Creative
Commons Licenses
#Licensing is something distinct from copyright: By licensing
your work you are not surrendering your copyright, but just
allowing others to use your content
#CC Licenses are non-exclusive and non-revocable

21. What worked
Allowed DRIS to
promote the
department’s work in
Digital Collections & its
staff’s expertise
Mixture of attendees:
academics,
post-doctoral
researchers, librarians
Excellent feedback:
Attendees found both
the talks and the
hands-on exercises very
helpful

22. What didn’t
Difficult to ascertain
whether the learning
outcomes were
achieved
Small number of
attendees: group of 10
Introductory session
with no follow up

24. Potential of Metaliteracy Framework

25. Metaliteracy as a
means to focus on
the learner’s role as
creator of
information in
various online
domains

26. Marta Bustillo
marta.bustillo@ucd.ie
@martab_lib
Thank you!