Visual Literacy for Libraries, a new book from Facet Publishing, will give you an understanding of how images fit into your critical practice and how you can advance student learning with your own visual literacy.

1. Understanding
visual
literacy
for libraries

2. Visual literacy has a long history and means
different things to different people. As we’ve
worked with visual literacy over the past
decade (some of us more, some less), we’ve
heard a lot of different takes on what visual
literacy is all about.

3. Why visual
literacy
and
libraries?

4. When we step back and think
about how to situate visual
literacy into a library context,
the word critical keeps coming
up: critical thinking, critical
viewing, critical using, critical
making and the list goes on.

5. Do you encourage
students to think critically
as they research?
How can you extend
this experience to
images?
Do you embrace critical
information literacy?

6. Can you bring visual
content to enrich that
experience?
Do you teach students to
critically evaluate sources?
How can you expand
that practice to
images?

7. What is
visual
literacy?

8. Visual literacy is a set of abilities that
enables an individual to effectively find,
interpret, evaluate, use, and create
images and visual media. (ACRL 2011)

9. Visual literacy enables a learner to
understand and analyze the contextual,
cultural, ethical, aesthetic, intellectual,
and technical components involved in
the production and use of visual
materials. (ACRL 2011)

10. A visually literate individual is
both a critical consumer of
visual media and a competent
contributor to a body of
shared knowledge and
culture. (ACRL 2011)

11. We’re used to reading and
writing text, but an image –
whether a painting,
photograph, or chart – is an
important medium of
communication too. And we
need skills to “read” and
create them.

12. Visual Literacy is a natural bridge
to information literacy. From
finding and using to creating and
evaluating, images are part of the
research process.

13. The chapters in Visual
Literacy for
Libraries are arranged by
what you do with images so that
you can easily connect the
content to your practice when
you need to.
Chapter features include:
● Foundational Questions
● Coffee Breaks
● More to Explore
● Visual Literacy

14. Table of Contents
1. Interpret and Analyze
Images
2. Find the Right Images
3. Create and Use
Images
4. Ethical Use of Images
5. Cite and Credit Images
6. Images and the
Research Process

15. Visit Facet
Publishing to learn
more about this
new title.
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16. Image Credits
1. CC0 1.0 photograph by Sean Brown, October 2014 (www.upslash.com)
2. CC0 1.0 photograph by Steve Richey, January 2014 (www.upslash.com)
3. CC0 1.0 photograph by Evan Dennis, March 2016 (www.upslash.com)
4. CC0 1.0, June 2016 (pixabay.com)
5. CC0 1.0 photograph by Sean Brown, October 2014 (www.upslash.com)
6. CC0 1.0, July 2013 (pixabay.com)
7. CC0 1.0 photograph by Sweet Ice Cream Photography, June 2016 (www.unsplash.com)
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