With the lively discussion on library instruction and information
literacy, and partly in reply to Betsy Peck Learned's inquiry, I would
like to suggest the following seminar at the Joint ARLIS/NA 30th-VRA 20th
Annual Conference:
IS A PICTURE REALLY WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS?: INFORMATION LITERACY & THE
VISUAL LEARNER
Seminar V
Monday, March 25, 2002
3:30-5:00 p.m.
If Johnny can't read, can he find the information needed for an
industrial design project? Educators increasingly maintain that "the
future of higher education will be determined in large part by how
individuals and institutions respond to the challenge of information
technology and information literacy."
Many libraries in educational institutions have undertaken initiatives to
intensify and retool their bibliographic instruction programs to develop
and nurture critical thinking skills in students about not only print
sources, but perhaps more importantly, about electronic resources,
especially those available on the World Wide Web. Capitalizing on the
lure of on-line activity, there are electronic learning platforms, such
as Blackboard, for creating on-line instructional programs. Moreover,
successful information literacy programs have built institutional support
and developed partnerships with faculty.
Most of these curricula, however, assume text-centered learning, and few
have addressed alternate learning styles, such the particular needs of
visual learners, who may approach the universe of information with
entirely different mental processes and assumptions than students of the
more verbal aspects of the humanities.
Participating in this seminar will be a fine arts professor and two
librarians, all of whom have integrated the psychology of the creative
eye into their teaching duties.
Participants:
Jeanne M. Brown, Art Bibliographer and Head, Architecture Studies
Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jane Carlin, Librarian, Design, Architecture, Art & Planning Library,
University of Cincinnati
Heather Corcoran, Assistant Professor, School of Art & Graphic Design,
Washington University, St. Louis
Proposer: Paul Glassman, New York School of Interior Design
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