Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Social Sciences Students And Practitioners
Subtitle: A Casebook of Applications
Contributors: Douglas Cook (Editor); Natasha Cooper (Editor)
Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries; Association of College and Research Libraries
Published: July 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780838983898
Subjects: Library & Information Sciences; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Language; Books & Reading; Literacy; Case studies; Electronic information resource literacy; Information literacy; Information resources; Social sciences; Study and teaching
Description: Visual literacy, defined here as the ability to recognize, interpret, evaluate, and create visual messages, is increasingly important for navigating daily life and for conducting effective research. Visual literacy enables us to critically assess the wide array of images that infuse our daily lives through such diverse media contexts as advertising, the web, television, video games, books, magazines, and museums. The need for information literacy instruction to target not only textual but also visual artifacts is growing rapidly. Since student projects increasingly involve multimedia presentations and require non-textual research sources, this increased demand for visual literacy has outpaced the development of lessons and classes to teach those skills.