Slides from my talk with Brian Hulsey at Computers in Libraries (DC) 2011.

1. Transliteracies: Libraries as
the Critical “Classroom”
Gretchen Caserotti
Head of Children and Teen Services
Darien Library
@gcaserotti
Computers in Libraries, 2011

2. My public library is
all about stories

3. Sleeping Beauty

4. Sleeping Beauty

5. Sleeping Beauty

6. Sleeping Beauty

7. Sleeping Beauty

8. Sleeping Beauty

9. Multi-media storytelling
Disney has been doing
it for years

10. Content vs. Container
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought,
not expressing it.
--Marshall McLuhan

11. Stories are changing.
Interactive Fiction

12. Kids are
learning
leaders

13. Flexibility is the key

14. Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact
across a range of platforms, tools and media.

15. Transliteracy is an Umbrella
Print Literacy
Information Literacy Visual Literacy
Spacial Literacy Cultural Literacy
Scientific Literacy
Digital Literacy Media Literacy
Digital Literacy

16. Transliteracy is *Across*
not *All*

17. What can we do?
Reach out to *all* Library Staff
Reach out to your community

18. Libraries need to step up our game

19. Tech Bites
(Darien Library)
Tech Munchies
(Skokie Public
Library)
Staff led
technology
training in an
informal
environment.

20. Biographies Government Romance Science Fiction African American Computers Encyclopedias
Documents Mysteries Reference
000 – 999 004 – 006 030
Rethink Access to our
Occult Supernatural Astrology Psychology Collections
Christianity Buddhism Judaism Islam
133 133 133.5 150 230 – 289 294.3 296 297
Sexuality Relationships Investments Law Military People with Crime Education &
Disabilities Scholarship
306.7 306.8 332 340 355 362.4 364 370
e=mc2
Transportation Costume Holidays Folklore Dictionaries Languages Sciences Science Projects
385 – 388 391 394 398 423 400 – 499 500 – 599 507
Volcanoes &

21. Rethink Access to our Collections
Picture Books

22. Summer Reading Strategies
Strategy 1 – Let them read outside the box
vs.
print eBook

24. Be technology leaders

25. Helping patrons one interaction at a time

26. Be a place to create

27. not just about information

28. But also about access

29. Make your library a
place that
• encourages
conversations
• invites participation
• provides creative
outlets
• embraces
alternative learning
styles
• tells stories

30. Think about what you can do in
your library setting

31. “The concept of
transliteracy calls
for a change of
perspective away
from the battles
over print versus
digital, and a
move instead
towards a
unifying ecology
not just of media,
but of all
literacies relevant
to reading,
writing,
interaction and
culture, both past
and present.
--Sue Thomas

32. • dcJohn (classroom) Images are Creative
• sandyraidy (storyteller)
• MorBCN (container) Commons
• insidethemagic (Disney Store)
• Wayan Vota (toddler with iPad) licensed by Flickr Users:
• BrittneyBush (yoga)
• notashamed (pen & paper)
• Loca Luna (umbrella)
• HarlanH (crosswalk)
• Flickr User ~diP (Hand)
• flickrfanmk2007 (basketball game)
• Jeffrey Beall (brown bag)
• Gretchichi (KidLitReOrg)
• ACPL (ereader fair)
• Nicola Corboy (shaking hands sculpture)
• Lin Pernille Photography (old books)
• The Unquiet Library (mobile phone)
• maciejgruszecki.com (2 way sign)
• Sidereal (The Thinker)
• orb9220 (eReader in the stacks)

33. Thank you
gcaserotti@darienlibrary.org
Libraries and Transliteracy - http://
librariesandtransliteracy.com