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Information Literacy for Fashion Students: Translating Visual and Tactile Cues into Searchable Key Terms

Warschaw, Olivia

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/111799

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Title
Information Literacy for Fashion Students: Translating Visual and Tactile Cues into Searchable Key Terms
Author(s)
Warschaw, Olivia
Issue Date
2021
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries
  • Fashion
  • Information literacy
Abstract
Emerging fashion researchers often have their first experience with visual and tactile research in postsecondary school. Fashion librarians and educators must be able to assist students in adapting their perspective to include analyses of characteristics like color, silhouette, fabric, weave, and embellishment, in addition to familiarity with the fashion scholarship. However, translating visual and tactile cues into searchable vocabulary bridges can be difficult and exposes a gap in information literacy. In this article the author shares three information literacy exercises that librarians may combine with institutionspecific resource instruction to guide students in developing a useful vocabulary for image- and object-based research and meeting their unique educational needs.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 70 (1). Summer 2021
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/111799
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0015
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Copyright 2021 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 70 (1) Summer 2021: Fashion in the Library/Fashion Librarianship PRIMARY
Library Trends 70 (1) Summer 2021: Fashion in the Library/Fashion Librarianship. Edited by Courtney Becks and Cristina Favretto.