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Designing one-time short library / information literacy instruction is challenging. This example present a structure and resources used to instruct a first year university class in visual community.
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Library Instruction SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
1 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012
Visual Culture Essay Topics
The Assignment 2500 words, 10 double-spaced pages, Times Roman 12 pt.
Modern Languages Association style
Insert images and cite correctly
8 resources
Topic Suggestions & Research Tools and Resources
Essay Topic Research Tools & Resources
Virtual Reality (ex: VR as an alternate “reality” & its relationship to identity; pros and cons; its use in simulation training and practice)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
Social Sciences Full Text
Humanities Full Text
CGI (computer generated imagery) (ex: photo-shopped “truth”; sampled actors in cinema)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
Social Sciences Full Text
MMORPG’S (massively multiplayer online role playing games) (ex: its effect on our (pick one) perception of reality & identity, racial stereotypes, sense of personal power)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
Library Instruction SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
2 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012
Music video (ex: is it entertainment or advertising?) Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
Surveillance (ex: its forms, attributes and counter-indications; issues of privacy and human rights; psychological effects)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax site:.gc.ca, image search with copyright and
permissions) Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
Violence in (pick one area) television, advertising, video games or film (ex: aestheticization of violence in Tarantino’s films)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax site:.gc.ca, image search with copyright and
permissions) Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
Representation and/or misrepresentation based on (pick one) race, gender, age, sexual preference, disability or difference in (pick one) advertising, television or film (ex: Images of older women in advertising; depiction of first nations in film)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
Project Muse
Humanities Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text
The embodiment of technology, biological engineering and visuality (ex: how cyborg are we, pros and cons?; glowing rabbits, robo-bugs & hybridity, the limits of bioengineering)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
AGRICOLA
Project Muse
Cyberculture (ex: virtual relationships & worlds; avatars and online loves and lives)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Library Instruction SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
3 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012
Project Muse
The News (ex: how information is managed to control mass beliefs and actions; online connections & bypassing large corporations – is it possible?)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
American History and Life
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
Reality television, Lifestyle magazines, tabloids (trailer trash truth or worthy entertainment?)
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Project Muse
American History and Life
Social Sciences Full Text
Advertising’s colonization of spaces (ex: billboards, buildings, clothing, movie, websites).
Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
Academic Search Complete
American History and Life
JSTOR
Project Muse
Social Sciences Full Text
