Session One

The Image Services Team delivered our first Visual Literacy training session in the fall of 2010. Our objectives were for reference librarians and staff to be able to articulate image research needs, and to have a clear understanding of copyright, fair use, and image appropriation (ACRL/IRIG standards 1, 2, and 7).

  • Images for Academic Use Mind map
  • Images for Academic Use Prezi We used the prezzi and mind map above to explain why it is important to ask patrons how they plan to use their image when approached by a patron who wants help finding an image.  The presenters demonstrated how the mind map can be used to quickly find resources when it is necessary to consider copyright restrictions, such as when a patron wants to find an image in the public domain or an image that is labeled for reuse.
  • Digital Images Guide The Digital Images Guide was developed into a campus wide resource for finding subject specific images, rather than a resource strictly for the arts.  Recent additions to the guide include pages dedicated to medicine, science and public domain image resources.
  • Visual Literacy Guide The Visual Literacy Guide is meant to be more of a learning resource.  It contains information on copyright, citing images, presentation guidelines, and more. This guide is evolving as the learning objects and resources were developed for the sessions. (Alex Jenkins, an arts librarian intern Jan. 26-May 17, recently developed a comprehensive guide to citing images for the Visual Literacy Guide).
  • Image Services Team Scenarios After introducing these concepts, tools, and resources, the team provided example scenarios where the reference staff or librarian would need to determine the appropriate image resource for the patron.

The training session ideas and tools provided in this handout are available for creative re-use, however, we hope you will contact us if you do so, so that we may learn from each other.  The Image Services Team:  libuciimage@uci.edu



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