Upcoming & Recent Meetings and Events

 ACRL IRIG Midwinter Virtual Meeting - Tues. January 21, 2020

Link to meeting recording

Agenda

• Introductions from the candidates for ACRL Vice-President/President Elect, followed by question-and-answer session with meeting participants: 

Lynn Connaway, Director of User Research, OCLC, and        

Julie Garrison, Dean of Libraries, University of Western Michigan  

• Progress report on the recent work of the Task Force to update the Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.

Tiffany Saulter, Accessibility Consultant, Deque Systems, and

Sara Schumacher, Architecture Image Librarian, Texas Tech University 

•  Mirabile Visu: Art of the Aeneid  

Mirabile Visu is a digital collection featuring 300 images of artistic depictions from Vergil's Aeneid, using metadata from cultural heritage institutions and compiled using Omeka and Tableau. This talk explores the development of this project, its potential uses and future goals.

Adriana Cásarez, Diversity Resident Librarian, University of Texas at Austin 

• The Truth Is Out There: Discerning Fake News Images  

Dr. Farmer’s Fake News Lib Guide provides links to visual literacy tools and sources to discern faked images. She will share a few techniques and learning activities.

Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer, Professor of Library Media, California State University Long Beach

Business meeting

-request for feedback about deaccessioning/digitizing a former Slide Library slide collection 

Jackie Fleming, Visual Literacy and Resources Librarian, Indiana University

-updating ACRL-IRIG Digital Images Collections Guide:  https://acrl.libguides.com/irig/digitalimagescollectionsguide 

-upcoming in spring: Incoming Convener 2020-2021 - volunteer opportunity

-plans for our next meeting: requested a meeting time for ACRL-IRIG at ALA Annual 2020

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Presentation slides from the June 2019 IRIG virtual meeting

Millicent Fullmer, University of San Diego and Stephanie Beene, University of New Mexico gave a presentation, highlighting the work of the task force to update the Visual Literacy Standards 

Our meeting included three lightning round presentations. Links to the presentation slides are available below:

• "Getting Creative Through Visual Literacy Using Graphic Novels," by Dr. Lesley Farmer, California State University, Long Beach

• "Demystifying Aesthetic Vocabulary," Nicole Fox, Belmont University

• "Uplifting Memes," Maggie Murphy and Jenny Dale, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

 IRIG virtual meeting - June 12, 2019

2:00 pm Eastern

Register in advance for this meeting: https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/9b84696f3f88aa514ac87b605f06faf5

The meeting begin with a short business meeting, followed by an update from Millicent Fullmer and Stephanie Beene, on the work to update the Visual Literacy Standards, completing with three lightning round talks. 

Task force update: 

Since its formation in February 2018 by the Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG), ​T​he Association for College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Visual Literacy Task Force will present a status report on its progress. The report will provide information on the task force members and the charge from the ACRL Board to update the original 2011 ​ACRL​ ​Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education​ to align them with the 2016​ ​ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education​. 

Millicent Fullmer, Acquisitions and Cataloging Librarian 

University of San Diego

Stephanie Beene, Fine Arts Librarian for Art, Architecture & Planning

University of New Mexico 

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Lighting round talks:

Uplifting memes:

• Uplifting Memes is a proposed library outreach project aimed at connecting students with library resources and spaces while also addressing critical, intersecting literacies that help students develop “transformative life skills necessary to be informed and engaged in society” and navigate “digital resources and content” (UNCG University Libraries Strategic Plan, 2018-19) through the theme of memes. 

Maggie Murphy, First-Year Instruction and Humanities Librarian

Jenny Dale, Information literacy coordinator 

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Demystifying Aesthetic Vocabulary: The Right Words for Image Evaluation:

• Having the right vocabulary for critically evaluating images is no longer esoteric art knowledge, but a skill necessary for effective image evaluation and interpretation. Students across the disciplines interact with countless images, both in their academic work and their personal lives.

Nicole Fox, Research and Instruction Librarian

Belmont University

Visual literacy instruction through graphic novels:

• This talk with cover teaching pre-service school librarians about visual literacy through create a graphic novel about a significant event in a children's/YA writer's life. The presenter used a rubric as a guide, and analyzed the students' visual literacy practices, which helped to refine the instruction. 

Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer, Professor of Library Media, Teacher Librarian Program Coordinator and Literacy Project Manager

California State University, Long Beach

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ACRL-IRIG Program at ALA in Orlando, June 25th, 2016

HILTON Orlando, Room Lake George

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

PDF - ACRL-IRIG Program at ALA in Orlando (<-- Click Here)

http://www.eventscribe.com/2016/ala-annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=143170

Note: The main ALA conference location is at Orange County Convention Center. This meeting will take place at the Lake George Room in the Hilton Orlando next to the Convention Center (one of the co-HQ hotels). While it is walkable, Hilton advises that we take the shuttle from the convention center, which runs every 10-15 minutes. (See location and shuttle information in the PDF above.)

The meeting will begin with lightning round talks from the following presenters:

Collaborating Across Departments for Image Metadata

Description:

The Digital Projects & Preservation Department and the Discovery Enhancement Department, each within the Technical Services Division of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library, have collaborated to ensure that metadata is embedded in image-based collections in the institutional repository. Our initial project is nearly complete and now we have begun a second. The first project utilized freeware so that staff members in Discovery Enhancement, who did not have access to the Adobe Suite, could embed metadata and geographic coordinates.  Now that a campus-wide agreement has provided access to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, members of the team can apply metadata using presets based on a data dictionary.  The collaboration has allowed more content to be posted to the institutional repository and harnessed existing skill-sets in new ways.

Courtenay McLeland

Head, Digital Projects & Preservation

Curator, Library Art Collection

Thomas G. Carpenter Library

University of North Florida

Sculpting Visual-Literate Spaces and Learners

Description:

What do you envision when you hear “learning space”? Do you see a traditional classroom with rows of tables and chairs facing a board? But how does this work to promote visual literacy, or function when you don’t have the space for a classroom? Visual literacy requires more than seeing an image or video on a large screen, it requires collaboration and touch in today’s digital age. Two librarians sought to break from tradition and create accommodating learning spaces that promote visual literacies. Learn the good, the bad, and the ugly they encountered while breaking down the traditional classroom and incorporating mobile and interactive technologies aligned with visual literacy pedagogies.

Tiffany Baglier

Assistant Head, Education Library

George A. Smathers Libraries

University of Florida

Business meeting (Please email additions to the agenda to Stephen.Patton@indstate.edu)

2016/2017 Convener:

Jasmine Burns, Image Technologies and Visual Literacy Librarian and Interim Head of the Fine Arts Library at Indiana University Bloomington. Jasmine has been at IU since August 2015, where she manages and curates the Fine Arts Library’s interdisciplinary image collections for teaching and research. She also serves as the Director of the Art Librarianship Program, Secretary to the Executive Board of the Visual Resources Association, and Vice-Moderator to the Visual Resources Division of ARLIS.

What is the charge for the 2016-2017 convener?

The group’s founding purpose is “To provide a forum for ongoing discussion of the unique issues presented by the development and support of interdisciplinary image resources in academic libraries.”

Volunteer for Incoming Convener for 2016-2017. This person will transition to Convener for the 2017-2018 year.

Volunteer for Listserv/Website Administrator: This is an important communication role. We are looking for a volunteer to serve during the coming year.

Do we have too many methods of communication?

Online Spaces:

ACRL IRIG google site

https://sites.google.com/site/acrlirig/

ACRL IRIG landing page (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/resources/leadership/interestgrps/acr-igir.cfm)

ACRL IRIG wiki (http://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/IRIG)

email listserv (acrl-ir@ala.org)

To subscribe, please go to the ALA Mailing List Service at http://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/acrl-ir.

Listserv archives are available at http://lists.ala.org/sympa/arc/acrl-ir.

ALA Connect (http://connect.ala.org/node/78932)

Log in to post and join.

Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/acrlirig)

ACRL-IRIG Meeting at ALA in Las Vegas, June 28, 2014

Las Vegas Convention Center (N101)

1-2:30pm

The meeting will begin with lightning round talks from the following presenters:

Courtney Baron, University of Georgia

“Institutional Repositories: Powerful Tools to Preserve MFA Work”

Nicole LaMoreaux, LIM College

“Beneath the Fold: The Value of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) Archive and Vogue Archive within an Academic Library”

Ann Medaille, University of Nevada, Reno

“Learning Visual Literacy Skills through Digital Story Creation”

Stephen Patton, Indiana State University

“MDID or Don’t”

Jenna Rinalducci, George Mason University

“Tactile Texts: Transforming Artist Books for the Online Environment”

Tiffany Saulter, Indiana University Bloomington

“Image as Record: The Zine Collection at the Fine Arts Library”

Krista White, Rutgers University

“Digital Imaging Specifications and the Management of Digital Storage Needs”

Following the presentations, members of the Visual Literacy Task Force will provide an update on the Visual Literacy Standards.

ACRL-IRIG Program at ALA in Chicago, June 29th, 2013

McCormick Place Convention Center (N427a)

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Success Stories and Challenges: How Librarians are Employing Fair Use with Their Code

Creators of the ARL Fair Use Code describe the achievements and challenges of employing the ARL Code, including innovative ways that librarians have implemented the code, common reactions and obstacles, and the latest legislation. Next, the workshop examines the educational use of images, including the VRA Fair Use Statement, and a Code being developed by the College Art Association on image use in scholarly publications and on the creation and exhibition of new artistic works.

Presenters; 

Brandon Butler, J.D., Director of Public Policy Initiatives, ARL 

Kevin Smith, J.D., Director of Copyright and Scholarly Communications, Duke University