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Skills that Travel Transliteracy and the
Global Librarian
Lane Wilkinson
ACRL/NY Annual Symposium
December 2, 2011
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What does
it take to be
a global
librarian? Diverse
populations
Variety of
platforms
Progressive
technologies http://www.flickr.com/photos/beth19/4923647610/
For a global librarian
“physical distance is no
longer a barrier to
teaching and learning.”
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“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
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Global
librarianship
is not tied
to the library.
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As global librarians,
we can stop treating
the library as a destination
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and start treating it as a hub.
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The global librarian is not a guardian.
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The global
librarian is a
guide.
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Transliteracy
Is transliteracy a silly buzzword?
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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
Transliteracy is not a panacea
So, what is it?
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What is
transliteracy?
2005
Transliteracies Project
2007
Sue Thomas,
DeMontfort University
2010
Libraries & Transliteracy
What is
transliteracy?
The ability to read,
write and interact
across a range of
platforms, tools
and media.
[PART 2007]
What is
transliteracy?
[It is] understanding the
ways various means of
communication interact
and understanding…the
skills necessary to move
effortlessly from one
medium to another.
-Ipri, T. (2010) Introducing Transliteracy. College &
Research Libraries News, 71(10), 532-567.
What is
transliteracy?
“The most
fundamental notion of
transliteracy is the
ability to adapt. It’s
creating a literacy and
fluidity between
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
What is
transliteracy?
It isn’t a concept we
teach, it’s an innate
skill we develop.
This is not transliteracy
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but this might be. http://www.flickr.com/photos/foreverdigital/2240673803/
What about
information literacy?
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Why do we need another literacy?
Orality
Signing
Visual
Computer
Digital
Scientific
Health
Economic
Cultural
Critical
Media
Communication Evaluation
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Why do we need another literacy?
Orality
Signing
Visual
Computer
Digital
Scientific
Health
Economic
Cultural
Critical
Media
Transliteracy Information Literacy
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
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Information literacy is about
evaluating content, not containers.
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Transliteracy
is about
containers,
not content.
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So, what does transliteracy have to do
with the global librarian?
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If we’re going to go global,
we’ll need to pack.
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Transliteracy can
help us figure out
what to bring along.
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Three principles
1
Effective
information use
requires several
information
sources http://www.flickr.com/photos/masochismtango/2186726069/
We tend to
focus first and
foremost on
library
resources.
We’ve put up
defensive walls
To distinguish
ourselves from
the web
But, students will use
non-library resources.
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And they’re
running right into
the walls we’ve
been building.
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If we want to
be global
we
have to go
where
they are.
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2
Information
sources don’t
stand alone,
they interact. http://www.flickr.com/photos/holster/486753307
Information
can’t fit into tidy
compartments. http://www.flickr.com/photos/franklinheijnen/5089819498/
The “versus” mentality
doesn’t cut it
anymore.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atlnav/369536486/
Information resources
are linked.
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3 Identify skills
that transfer
across tools,
platforms,
and media http://www.flickr.com/photos/kozumel/2308100933/
The question posed
by transliteracy is:
“Are we
encouraging
skills that
transfer?”
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Transfer of learning
The ability to transfer
cognitive skills
learned in one domain
to a new domain. http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaparral/2737992503/
Put simply,
it’s more bang
for your buck.
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We don’t know
where we’ll end
up, but we can
still prepare.
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Start from
existing
mental
models of
research
(Holman 2011)
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And teach
the analogy
(Gentner & Colhoun 2010)
1) Candidate inferences
2) Schema abstraction
3) Re-representation
Here’s an example
Inference > Abstraction > Re-representation
Encourage
inference by
teaching
similarities,
not differences.
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Encourage
abstraction by
talking about
how a resource
works, not just
how to use it.
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Encourage
re-representation by
providing ample
time for free play.
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By emphasizing transfer we create
mobility and adaptability.
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Once again:
what is
transliteracy?
The ability to read,
write and interact
across a range of
platforms, tools
and media.
[PART 2007]
Transliteracy is transfer of
learning applied to
traditional, communicative
literacies.
Transliteracy is a heuristic for
evaluating what we’re
teaching our students and
what we’re teaching
ourselves.
Putting it all together…
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We can’t bring
everything.
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But we can bring
what matters.
Transliteracy is
Multiple resources
Interaction
Transfer
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Transliteracy is one way of thinking about
which skills a guide should pack.
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We know
where we’re
going.
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Transliteracy may
help us get there.
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Thank you
senseandreference.wordpress.com
librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com
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.
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