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The Visual Research Task: A Faculty/Library Collaboration Combining Information Literacy With Artistic Assessment, Lofton L. Durham, Michael J. Duffy Iv
The Visual Research Task: A Faculty/Library Collaboration Combining Information Literacy With Artistic Assessment, Lofton L. Durham, Michael J. Duffy Iv
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This session features a librarian and faculty member sharing their collaboration on the “Visual Research Task,” which is an assignment designed to provide information literacy instruction with an emphasis on visual resources to theatre majors in a course on collaborative theatre production. Students are given a scenario in which they act as the assistant to a theatrical designer, working with limited information, must assemble a curated portfolio of ten images to support the design or conceptualization for a theatrical design, with descriptions and citations. Each student is given a different topic from a wide range, including for example, “royal pageantry,” …