The PowerPoint version does not render properly, so here's my ALA panel presentation in PDF form.

1. Information Literacy vs. Transliteracy:
Lessons for Library Instruction
Lane Wilkinson
“Why Transliteracy?” panel
New Orleans - June 25, 2011

2. Information Literacy vs. Transliteracy:
Lessons for Library Instruction
Three Goals
What’s the difference?
How is transliteracy relevant?
Lessons we can learn.

3. difference
What is the difference
between transliteracy and
information literacy?

4. information
economic social
orality
economic
meta web health
new
financial
media transliteracy
literacy
cultural
digital critical print
visual
computer scientific
statistical
historical electracy
post-
visual
financial numeracy

5. information
economic social
orality
economic
meta web health
new
financial
media transliteracy
literacy
cultural
digital critical print
visual
computer scientific
statistical
historical electracy
post-
visual
financial numeracy

6. literacy

7. literacy
Reading and
writing?

8. literacy
Clicking and
typing?

9. literacy
Posting and
hosting?

10. literacy
Is there a
common
Yes
thread?

11. literacy
Literacy is our way of
accessing the flow of
information.

12. literacy
Literacy is a means
for encoding and
decoding that
information.

13. literacy
We encode and decode
information in order to
communicate.

14. literacy
Literacy is about
communication

15. literacy
Literacy is the ability
to communicate
meaning by encoding
and decoding
information.

16. literacy
(sort of)

17. literacy
This is literacy in the
descriptive sense.

18. literacy
Sometimes we talk
about literacy in an
evaluative sense.

19. literacy
We talk about the skills
needed to evaluate
information.

20. literacy
Health literacy

21. literacy
Scientific literacy

22. literacy
Media literacy

23. literacy
Critical literacy
…and beyond

24. literacy
Each of these senses of
literacy are neutral with
respect to specific media

25. literacy
They are about
evaluating information,
not communicating
information

26. How is this relevant?
Isn’t it just
splitting hairs?

27. literacy
communicate
Print
Orality
Signing
Computer
Visual
Digital

28. literacy
communicate evaluate
Print By Subject By Concept
Orality Health Critical
Signing Scientific Media
Computer Economic Cultural
Visual &c. &c.
Digital

29. literacy
communicate evaluate
Print By Subject By Concept
Orality Health Critical
Signing Scientific Media
Computer Economic Cultural
Visual &c. &c.
Digital

30. literacy
evaluate
This is By Subject By Concept
information Health
Scientific
Critical
Media
literacy Economic
&c.
Cultural
&c.

31. literacy
communicate
Print
This is not
Orality
Signing
information
Computer
Visual literacy
Digital

32. literacy
communicate
Print
Orality
This is
Signing
Computer transliteracy
Visual
Digital

33. trans- Transliteracy addresses
the way we communicate
literacy information across
multiple media
Information literacy
addresses the way we information
evaluate information
using multiple skills literacy

34. Is library instruction about
evaluation or communication?

35. relevance
How is transliteracy relevant
to library instruction?

36. relevance
Our students
have grown up
immersed in
information

37. relevance
They don’t just
read and write

38. relevance
They upload,
download, tweet,
like, and text.

39. relevance
They communicate
information

40. relevance
But they hit a wall in the library

41. relevance
They see the library as different…

42. relevance
…and therefore inaccessible

43. relevance
The library is out of their network

44. relevance
They want to
communicate…

45. relevance
…what do we
want?

46. What are we doing to make the
library part of their network?

47. transliteracy
What lessons can
transliteracy teach us?

48. transliteracy
Communication is
distributed across
information sources

49. information
Information flows all around us

50. information
Literacy is how we interact with that
information

51. information
Multiple ways to interact

52. information
Multiple ways to interact

53. information
The library is not alone

54. information
There are other information sources out there.

55. information
Show your students that the library
offers another way of communicating

56. transliteracy
Information
resources don’t
stand alone, they
interact

57. interaction
We tend to teach
the differences

58. interaction
Popular vs. Scholarly

59. interaction
Wikipedia vs. Experts

60. interaction
Print vs. Digital

61. interaction
The Library vs. Google

62. interaction
The Library vs. Google

63. interaction
We forget that though there are
differences…

64. interaction
…that can be a good thing.

65. interaction
Different information sources play
different roles in research…so teach them

66. interaction
Teach the interaction, not the differences

67. interaction
Help them make the connection

68. interaction
Bobish, G. (2011). Participation and pedagogy: connecting the
social web to ACRL learning outcomes. Journal of Academic
Librarianship, 37(1), 54-63.

69. transliteracy
Think in terms of
transferable skills

70. transfer
Using a range of
media is just
multiple literacies

71. transfer
Transliteracy is
about combining
and moving across a
range of media

72. transfer
Moving across
literacies requires
more than just
multiple skills

73. transfer
Moving across
literacies requires
skills that can adjust
and transfer

74. transfer

75. transfer
The concept of
mental models
Holman, L. (2011). Millennial students’ mental models of search:
implications for academic librarians and database developers. The
Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 19-27.

76. transfer
Mapping meaning
and skills across
media and tools.
Holman, L. (2011). Millennial students’ mental models of search:
implications for academic librarians and database developers. The
Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(1), 19-27.

77. transfer

78. transfer
Finding The big Current The Metaphor
keywords picture research conversation & design

79. transliteracy
The takeaway

80. transliteracy
What can you take back
to your instruction
program?

81. transliteracy
Think about communication
Teach how information sources interact
Look for skills that will transfer

82. transliteracy
Thanks!
Lane Wilkinson
Univ. of Tennessee at
Chattanooga
flavors.me/wilk

83. transliteracy