Grass Roots Visual Literacy

This October I had the privilege of  presenting  a workshop on analyzing and interpreting images at the Fiat Lux conference held in Berkeley for UC Librarians.

See Full Program and Speakers Here: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LAUC/conference-2011/program

The workshop was very well attended, and the positive and constructive feedback from my colleagues is much appreciated! Click link below to view workshop PowerPoint.

The Art of Looking. Fiat Lux Workshop

Newport Boyscouts. Image from University of California, Irvine Special Collections.

Holly Tomren and Virginia Allison will be presenting at the upcoming ALA W2011 panel session in New Orleans, “Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: Introducing a new interdisciplinary information literacy standard for 21st century learners.”

Program information as follows:

Visual literacy experts and practitioners will introduce a working draft of the new Visual Literacy Competency Standards, and discuss implementation strategies for higher education.

Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Track: User Services
Subtrack: Literacy & Learning

*Travel funding for this event was made possible by receipt of funds from the University of California Research Grants for Librarians Program.

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The following presentation was presented by Virginia Allison on behalf of the Image Services Team at the Art Librarians Society for North America (ARLIS/NA) conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota this April, 2011. This presentation was part of a panel titled, Images Unleashed, Expanding Beyond Traditional Disciplines.

AllisonV.-Images-Unleashed (download ppt)

Since presenting my poster at last year’s ARLIS/NA conference (2010), much has changed in our plan to execute a visual literacy initiative.

Due to staff and budget cuts we had to be much more realistic in the amount of training and resources needed to carry out our mission. So we decided to start our training, just in the libraries. What has resulted is a fabulous focused initiative that has been exciting and well received. We are still creating learning objects, but they are only on our visual literacy guide (these will no longer be mirrored the Second Life).

You can read our full Second Life Obituary Below. This fall we submitted a new proposal for service that includes our new approach.

I will be discussing our progress and plans at this year’s ARLIS/NA conference in Minneapolis during a session titled Images Unleashed, Expanding Beyond Traditional Disciplines. Hope to see you there!

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The following text is a summary of my poster project for the ARLIS/NA Annual Conference in Boston 2010. See also Grassroots Visual Literacy Poster Handout

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