Transliteracy Making a Meaningful Message

Hope A. S. Harms June 2014

Literacy

To read and write

Digital Literacy

To use information and communication technologies

Information Literacy

To locate, evaluate, and use effectively the information

Transliteracy

The ability to read, write and interact across a range of

platforms, tools and media

Transliteracy

Mapping skills to move from

one medium to another

Transliteracy

Participating in the social nature of communication

So what?

“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who

cannot read or write,

~Alvin Toffler, futurist

“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who

cannot read or write, but those who cannot

learn, unlearn and relearn.”

~Alvin Toffler, futurist

Understanding

from the context of the medium

Adaptability

to learn to use one format to another

So what about us?

VISION

The library creates an environment for people

to learn, to explore, to enjoy, to create, to

connect…

And

to learn, to explore, to enjoy, to create, to

connect… is the essence of transliteracy!

How?

Make a story

Your story starts here.

Inference

Identify similarities

Use Analogy

Abstraction

Understand the how

Use Analogy

Re-representation

Play and create

Use Analogy

Be interactive

Engage the Audience

Be human

Engage the Audience

Make a

meaningful message.

Resources

Gentner, D., & Colhoun, J. (2010). Analogical processes in human thinking and learning. In B. Glatzeder, V. Goel, & A. von Muller (Vol. Eds.), On Thinking: Vol. 2. Towards a Theory of Thinking, pp 35-48. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Ipri, T. (2010, November). Introducing transliteracy: What does it mean to academic libraries?. College & Research Libraries News, 71(10), 532-533, 567. Retrieved from http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/532.full Thomas, S., Joseph, C., Laccetti, J., Mason, B., Mills, S., Perril, S., & Pullinger, K. (2007, December 3). Transliteracy: Crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12). Retrieved from http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060/1908 Toffler, Alvin. (n.d.). Toffler quotes. Retrieved from http://www.alvintoffler.net/?fa=galleryquotes

Image credits

“Abstract Backgrounds” by NichoDesign, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/nichodesign/10612749605/in/set-72157637197047226

“Intranet Advanced Search” by Noodle Vialect, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/75397150@N07/8436611054

“Local Call” by gfpeck, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/wespeck/4960579336

“Mobile Worker” by Michael Coghlan, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/7348035690

“Storytelling, Concord Library” by Local Studies NSU, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/local_studies_nsw/6518792855

“Writing” by jeffrey james pacres, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjpacres/3293117576

“Writing” by jeffrey james pacres, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjpacres/3293117576