Skills That Transfer: Transliteracy and the Global Librarian (ACRL/NY 2011 Symposium)
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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 http://www.flickr.com/photos/beth19/4923647610/ technologies
- 3. For a global librarian “physical distance is no longer a barrier to teaching and learning.”
- 4. “I 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.” -R. David Lankes The Atlas of New Librarianship, p. 16 http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/3996349414
- 5. Global librarianship is not tied to the library. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgis/6710769/
- 6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevindean/5836900722/ As global librarians, we can stop treating the library as a destination
- 7. and start treating it as a hub. http://www.flickr.com/photos/northcountryboy/395662381/
- 8. The global librarian is not a guardian. http://www.flickr.com/photos/su-lin/2899445065/
- 9. The global librarian is a guide. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiskoping/3388639698/
- 10. Transliteracy
- 11. Is transliteracy a silly buzzword? http://www.flickr.com/photos/subsetsum/3805289753/
- 12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachklein/54389823/ Absolutely.
- 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? http://www.flickr.com/photos/selva/7737130/
- 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 understanding…the 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. “The most fundamental notion of transliteracy is the ability to adapt. It’s creating a literacy and What is fluidity between transliteracy? mediums that’s not tied to space or modality.” - Karp, J. (2010, Oct 25). What is this buzz word “transliteracy”? (Blog) Retrieved from http://spotlight.macfound.org
- 19. It isn’t a concept we What is teach, it’s an innate transliteracy? skill we develop.
- 20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tylersilva/4779673639/ This is not transliteracy
- 21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/foreverdigital/2240673803/ but this might be.
- 22. What about information literacy? http://www.flickr.com/photos/barneymoss/6372144917/
- 23. Why do we need another literacy? Print Scientific Orality Health Signing Economic Visual Cultural Computer Critical Digital Media Communication Evaluation http://www.flickr.com/photos/loungerie/1471835306/
- 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 “bibliographic instruction” approach was later replaced by the skill-focused “information literacy” approach. Meredith Farkas American Libraries Magazine 11/01/2011 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricin/522589066
- 27. Information literacy is about evaluating content, not containers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/captkodak/272746539/
- 29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/6238509140/ So, what does transliteracy have to do with the global librarian?
- 30. If we’re going to go global, we’ll need to pack. http://www.flickr.com/photos/another_point_in_time/5570034108/
- 31. Transliteracy can help us figure out what to bring along. http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephrobertson/2265297242/
- 32. Three principles
- 33. 1 Effective information use requires several information http://www.flickr.com/photos/masochismtango/2186726069/ sources
- 34. We tend to focus first and foremost on library resources.
- 35. To distinguish ourselves from the web We’ve put up defensive walls
- 36. But, students will use non-library resources. http://www.flickr.com/photos/87913776@N00/5129607997/
- 37. And they’re running right into the walls we’ve been building. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ortizmj12/2366706532/
- 38. If we want to be global we have to go where they are. http://www.flickr.com/photos/misspixels/5785978957/
- 39. 2 Information sources don’t stand alone, http://www.flickr.com/photos/holster/486753307 they interact.
- 40. Information can’t fit into tidy http://www.flickr.com/photos/franklinheijnen/5089819498/ compartments.
- 41. The “versus” mentality doesn’t cut it anymore. http://www.flickr.com/photos/atlnav/369536486/
- 43. 3 Identify skills that transfer across tools, platforms, http://www.flickr.com/photos/kozumel/2308100933/ and media
- 44. The question posed by transliteracy is: “Are we encouraging skills that transfer?” http://www.flickr.com/photos/en321/322710700/
- 45. Transfer of learning The ability to transfer cognitive skills learned in one domain http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaparral/2737992503/ to a new domain.
- 46. http://www.flickr.com/photos/poetatum/3457696479/ Put simply, it’s more bang for your buck.
- 47. We don’t know where we’ll end up, but we can still prepare. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anyway/5652405755/
- 48. http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/5827849044/ Start from existing mental models of research (Holman 2011)
- 49. And teach the analogy 1) Candidate inferences 2) Schema abstraction 3) Re-representation (Gentner & Colhoun 2010)
- 51. Inference > Abstraction > Re-representation
- 53. Encourage abstraction by talking about how a resource works, not just how to use it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/distinctlyaskew/396655424/
- 54. Encourage re-representation by providing ample time for free play. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andresthor/3968071923/
- 55. www.flickr.com/photos/j0n9292/3396096818 By emphasizing transfer we create mobility and adaptability.
- 56. The ability to read, write and interact Once again: across a range of what is platforms, tools transliteracy? and media. [PART 2007]
- 57. Transliteracy is transfer of learning applied to traditional, communicative literacies.
- 58. Transliteracy is a heuristic for evaluating what we’re teaching our students and what we’re teaching ourselves.
- 59. Putting it all together… http://www.flickr.com/photos/autumn_bliss/467766536/
- 60. We can’t bring everything. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brutalworks/67250891/
- 61. But we can bring what matters. Transliteracy is Multiple resources Interaction Transfer http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlsimages/3221993157/
- 62. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiskoping/3388639698/ Transliteracy is one way of thinking about which skills a guide should pack.
- 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 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), 532-567. Karp, J. (2010, Oct 25). What is this buzz word “transliteracy”? (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. http://www.flickr.com/photos/smichael/4563914649/