On behalf of the ARLIS/NA Publications Committee,
I am pleased to announce the release of a new
ARLIS/NA Online Publication. Information
Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines,
for the first time, compiles a list of core
information literacy skills for college and
university students in arts and design
curriculums. Divided into basic, intermediate,
and advanced skills in each discipline, this set
of competencies is an invaluable aid to
librarians as they strive to define and delimit
information literacy skills for students in
design disciplines. These competencies are
intended to facilitate a systematic means of
integrating information literacy skills into the
core curriculum of design students, as well as to
open lines of communication with faculty as to
how competencies can be integrated into specific course goals.
The authors (Jeanne Brown, Jane Carlin, Edith
Crowe, Maya Gervits, Susan Lewis, Alan Michelson,
Barbara Opar, and Jennifer Parker) developed
Information Competencies for Students in Design
Disciplines with previously established
information literacy standards at its foundation.
The ACRL Information Literacy Competency
Standards for Higher Education as well as
specific standards in other disciplines such as:
Information Literacy Standards for Science and
Engineering/Technology were consulted in the creation of these standards.
ARLIS/NA is pleased to be able to offer this new
Online Publication free of charge to ARLIS/NA
members as well as to any interested parties. The
publication can be accessed from the ARLIS
Website at:
http://www.arlisna.org/resources/onlinepubs/informationcomp.pdf
or simply select “Online Publications” from the
“Resources” tab at the ARLIS Website
(<http://www.arlisna.org/>http://www.arlisna.org/).
You can easily navigate this resource by
activating the "Bookmarks" feature of the pdf file.
The Competencies
These newly formed competencies in the design
disciplines (including architecture, architecture
history, art history, studio art, landscape
architecture, interior design, fashion, and
planning) detail general skills for each
discipline as well as discipline-specific
competencies dealing with core reference sources as well as information types.
Excerpt from Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines:
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B. Basic skills for architecture students
Be able to:
· Use the Avery Index to Architectural
Periodicals to locate articles on discipline-specific topic,
· Use call numbers representing the major
fields that are included in architecture studies: architecture (NA),
landscape architecture
(SB), planning (HT), construction (TH), and interior design (NK) to browse,
· Find images using a variety of sources
(library print sources, the Internet, licensed databases such as ARTstor),
- Illustrating fundamentals of visual perception and design.
- To incorporate into a discipline-specific product.
- To group into study sets.
· Find materials on specific buildings and architects,
· Identify and retrieve information on precedents,
· Use sources like the Macmillan
Encyclopedia of Architects to locate additional
information such as the name of the
architect or style when
only the building name has been provided,
· Identify appropriate campus sources
(library and non-library) for architecture information on the locale or
campus buildings,
· Select terminology resulting in an
effective database search, using discipline-specific vocabulary,
· Apply copyright guidelines to the use of
images in paper and web assignments.
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Credits
The authors of these competencies are librarians
from a variety of design disciplines that have
been working since early 2005 to develop a fluid
set of competencies to which updates, amendments,
and revisions can easily be added.
The Authors are:
Organizer and Committee Chair: Jeanne Brown, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Architectural Competencies: Jeanne Brown, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Planning and Fashion Competencies: Jane Carlin, University of Cincinnati
Art History Competencies: Edith Crowe, San Jose State University
Architecture History Competencies: Maya Gervits,
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Interior Design Competencies: Susan Lewis, Boston Architectural Center
Landscape Architecture Competencies: Alan Michelson, University of Washington
Architectural Technology Competencies: Barbara Opar, Syracuse University
Studio Art Competencies: Jennifer Parker, University of Colorado at Boulder
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