Reading List

Short List – New to transliteracy? Start here:

Transliteracy: Take a Walk on the Wild Side, 75th Ifla General Conference And Council, 23-27 August 2009

Transliteracy: Crossing DividesSue ThomasChris JosephJess LaccettiBruce MasonSimon MillsSimon PerrilKate Pullinger, First Monday, Volume 12 Number 12 – 3 December 2007

Defining Transliteracy by Bobbi Newman

Introducing transliteracy: What does it mean to academic libraries?, Tom Ipri, College and Research Library News, November 2010

Complete List:

Americans living with disability and their technology profile Pew Internet and American Life Project (added 2.26.2011)

Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies, Howard Rheingold, 2010 (added 2.26.2011)

Bookends Scenarios Alternative futures for the Public Library Network in NSW in 2030, A project of the Library Council of New South Wales in association with the Neville Freeman Agency, 2009

Checking Out the Future, Office of Information Technology Policy, ALA, 2010 (added 2.26.2011)

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, Henry Jenkins, MIT & The MacArthor Foundation 2009

Convergence? I diverge, Henry Jenkins, 2001

Creating The Digital Opportunity Investment Trust, A Proposal to Transform Learning and Training for the 21st Century, A Report to The Congress of The United States, submitted by The Digital Promise Project,  2003.

Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, Renee Hobbs, A White Paper on the Digital and Media Literacy Recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, 2010

Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices. (pdf) (added 2.26.2011)

Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums by Becky Herr-StephensonDiana RhotenDan Perkel and Christo Sims(added 2.26.2011)

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg, MIT & The MacArthor Foundation 2009

The Future of Museums and Libraries:A Discussion Guide, Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Future of the Internet, Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2010.

Generations Online 2010, Pew Internet & American Life Project (added 2.26.2011)

A Global Imperative, The Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit, The New Media Consortium, 2005

Horizon Report 2010 Edition, New Media Consortium

Horizon Report 2011, Educause, New Media Consortium

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, Approved by the Board of Directors of the Association of College and Research Libraries, 2000.

Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, 2009.

Internet Use and Depression Among the ElderlyPhoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, 2009 (added 2.26.2011)

Libraries promoting twenty-first century literacies 2009 [added 6/8/2010]

LITERACY for the 21st Century An Overview & Orientation Guide To Media Literacy Education, second edition Center for Media Literacy, 2008.

Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project – Mizuko Ito, Heather A. Horst , Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C. J. Pascoe, Laura Robinson, MIT & The MacArthor Foundation 2009

Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills, Institute of Museum and Library Services,

National Association for Media Literacy Education

NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment website

New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way ForwardJames Paul Gee, MIT & The MacArthor Foundation 2010

A New Literacies Sampler (pdf) (added 2.26.2011)

Opportunity for All How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries, Seattle Washington: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2010.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills website

Policy Recommendations on Preparing Americans for the Global Skills Race, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills,  2008

Post Crisis : e-Skills Are Needed to Drive Europe’ s Innovation Society, Sponsored by: Microsoft, Marianne Kolding Curtis Robinson, Mette Ahorlu, November 2009,

Principles For A New Media Literacy,  Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Papers 2008

Readings, A collection of articles and chapters submitted by participants, 21st Century Literacy Summit, April 26-28, 2005, San Jose, California

Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy. Mackey, Thomas and Trudi Jacobson.College and Research Libraries 72, no. 1 (2011): 62-78. (added 2.26.2011)

Standards for the 21st Century Learner, American Association of School Librarians

Technologies of Cooperation (pdf) – Howard Rheingold (added 1.22.2011)

Thriving in the 21st century: Learning Literacies for the Digital Age (LLiDA project),

To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, Executive Summary, National Endowment for the Arts, Research Report #47,  2007

Transliteracy: A Trend of Amplified Organization

Understanding information literacy: a primer from UNESCO (added 2.26.2011)

Using Computers in Family Literacy Programs from the National Center for Family Literacy (added 2.26.2011)

Will transliteracy make all this research obsolete? 2009 [added 6/8/2010]

Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project, Carrie James, MIT & The MacArthor Foundation 2009

9 Responses to “Reading List”

  1. Reading List | Transliteracy in Schools | Scoop.it Says:

    […] Short List – New to transliteracy? Start here: Transliteracy: Take a Walk on the Wild Side, 75th Ifla General Conference And Council, 23-27 August 2009 Transliteracy: Crossing Divides. Sue Thomas, …  […]

  2. Teen Services Resource Guide « Libraries & Lemonade Says:

    […] Libraries and Transliteracy (https://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/) Libraries and Transliteracy is part of the multi-literacy movement and includes resources and discussions on increasing literacy for youth and adults in multiple medias. The authors (there are several) hope to promote literacy awareness, teaching, and learning that covers the spectrum from consumption to creation, and define transliteracy as: “[T]he ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” A working definition, used by Sue Thomas, is that “Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” For librarians hoping to utilize media resources in their programming, especially those who hope to allow their youth users to participate in creation, this blog is full of new and archived resources in addition to links, and have recently established an ALA interest group. They also provide a transliteracy resource list. […]

  3. Useful sites (weekly) « Rhondda’s Reflections – wandering around the Web Says:

    […] Reading List « Libraries and Transliteracy  Google Group–A reference list on information about all literacies for all types of libraries and librarians. […]

  4. Sue Thomas Says:

    This is a great resource, thanks for doing it. Don’t know whether this is of interest too, but I’ve been keeping a googledoc of citations for a while – although it’s got rather out of date recently since you librarians all got busy. I can’t keep up with you! Anyway – take a look at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d3f2chj_322fcprffdz

    all best
    Sue

    • Bobbi Newman Says:

      Great list Sue thank you for sharing! There are several things on there I haven’t read. I’d better get reading and get them added to this page!

  5. Libraries and Translitearcy Resource List | Librarian by Day Says:

    […] have put together a Resources List over at the Libraries and Transliteracy blog.  People often ask me where to start or what to read. […]


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