Highline College Librarians are available to help you during the following hours:
Winter Quarter Hours
Monday-Thursday: 8am-6pm
Friday: 8am-2pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 2pm-6pm
If you need help from a librarian when Highline College Librarians are not available, please use the 24/7 chat service.
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In Person Highline Library, Building 25 |
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By Phone 206.592.3232 |
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By Email refhelp@highline.edu |
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Information Literacy is:
"Visual literacy is a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media."
In an interdisciplinary, higher education environment, a visually literate individual is able to:
• Determine the nature and extent of the visual materials needed
• Find and access needed images and visual media effectively and efficiently
• Interpret and analyze the meanings of images and visual media
• Evaluate images and their sources
• Use images and visual media effectively
• Design and create meaningful images and visual media
• Understand many of the ethical, legal, social, and economic issues surrounding the creation and use of images and visual media, and access and use visual materials ethically.
ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)