Two Words of The Week! Information and Artifactual Literacy

This week's term: information literacy View this email in your browser information literacy  n. ~ the ability to recognize when sources of knowledge or data are needed to address a situation or problem and to identify, locate, evaluate, and use the sources Related Terms artifactual literacy primary source literacy archival literacy visual literacy Categories Theory and Principles Notes Terms such as archival literacy, primary source literacy, digital literacy, visual literacy, and artifactual literacy are often considered aspects or conceptualizations of information literacy. The term information literacy has in many libraries come to replace the term bibliographic instruction to refer to instructional programming. Cited In­­­ American Library Association, Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report (Chicago: American Library Association, 1989): 1. Morris, Sammie, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, and Sharon A. Weiner, "Archival Literacy for History Students: Identifying Faculty Expectations of Archival Research Skills," The American Archivist 77:2 (Fall/Winter 2014): 397. Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke, “A Lens on Information Literacy” in Teaching With Primary Sources, edited by Christopher J. Prom and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2016): 2. Pugh, Mary Jo, Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005): 53. Weiner, Sharon A., Sammie Morris, and Lawrence J. Mykytiuk,  “Archival Literacy Competencies for Undergraduate History Majors,” The American Archivist 78:1 (Spring/Summer 2015), 155. How would you improve this definition? Send Feedback GOT WORDS? Suggest a Term   Share Tweet +1 Share Forward 17 N. State Street, Suite 1425 Chicago, IL 60602-3315 312-606-0722; toll-free 866-722-7858 http://www.archivists.org WHAT IS THIS? Word of the Week is a weekly email service of the Dictionary Working Group of the Society of American Archivists. Featured terms will be included in the new Dictionary of Archives Terminology, which is projected to be available in 2017. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences Copyright © 2016 Society of American Archivists, All rights reserved. top ▲

This week's term: artifactual literacy View this email in your browser

artifactual literacy  n. ~ the ability to understand, contextualize, and interpret primary sources Broader Term information literacy Related Term primary source literacy Distinguish From archival intelligence; archival literacy Notes Artifactual literacy is sometimes used to distinguish the ability to understand and interpret records and other primary sources from 1) the ability to identify and locate the sources, and/or 2) an understanding archival theory and practice. Categories Reference and Public Services Cited In Bahde, Anne, Heather Smedberg, and Mattie Taormina, Using Primary Sources: Hands-On Instructional Exercises: Hands-On Instructional Exercises (ABC-CLIO,2014): IX–X. Bass, Randy, “The Garden in the Machine: The Impact of American Studies on New Technologies,” Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (December 1999). Carini, Peter, “Information Literacy for Archives and Special Collections: Defining Outcomes.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 16, No. 1 (February 18, 2016): 195, doi:10.1353/pla.2016.0006 Yakel, Elizabeth, and Deborah Torres, “AI: Archival Intelligence and User Expertise,”The American Archivist 66:1 (Spring/Summer 2003): 52. How would you improve this definition? Send Feedback GOT WORDS? Suggest a Term Share Tweet +1 Share Forward 17 N. State Street, Suite 1425 Chicago, IL 60602-3315 312-606-0722; toll-free 866-722-7858 http://www.archivists.org

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