Research and Instruction Librarian
Member since 2017
As a librarian who focuses on teaching students about information literacy, I am most interested in the intersection of visual literacy and news literacy. Specifically, I am interested in how the images we encounter daily in a digital sphere impact how we see the physical world around us. I became interested in the field of visual literacy after completing my undergraduate education in Journalism and my graduate education in Photography and Art History. I was accustomed to teaching students how to evaluate images from a news and art perspective; now, I teach students how to evaluate images within the context of information literacy. Currently, I teach information literacy to college students at a mid-sized regional university. I am currently reading “The Library Book” (typical, I know), and I am also in the process of learning more about ceramics. To me, visual literacy, at its most basic, means the ability to read (evaluate), write (create), and think with images.
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