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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Word of the Week

This week's term: visual literacy

visual literacy 



n. ~ an understanding of the history, conventions, and technology of still and moving images and the ability to analyze and interpret them

Related Terms
archival literacy
visual materials

Categories
Theory and Principles

Cited In­­­
Kaplan, Elisabeth, and Jeffery Mifflin, "‘Mind and Sight’: Visual Literacy and the Archivist,” Archival Issues: Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference 21:2 (1996): 107.

O'Toole, James M., "‘Commendatory Letters’: An Archival Reading of the Venerable Bede,” The American Archivist 61:2 (Fall 1998): 283.

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, and Diane Vogt-O’Connor with Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell, and Kit Peterson, Photographs: Archival Care and Management (Chicago: The Society of American Archivists, 2006): 59.

Schwartz, Joan M., “‘We make our tools and our tools make us’: Lessons from Photographs for the Practice, Politics, and Poetics of Diplomatics,” Archivaria 40 (Fall 1995): 55.

Society of American Archivists, “Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections” [workshop description] (accessed March 6, 2017).


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