Designing one-time short library / information literacy instruction is challenging. This example present a structure and resources used to instruct a first year university class in visual community.

1. Library Instruction
SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
Visual Culture Essay Topics
The Assignment
 2500 words, 10 double-spaced pages, Times Roman 12 pt.
 Modern Languages Association style
 Insert images and cite correctly
 8 resources
Topic Suggestions & Research Tools and Resources
Essay Topic Research Tools & Resources
Virtual Reality (ex: VR as an alternate  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
“reality” & its relationship to identity; pros  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
and cons; its use in simulation training and  JSTOR
practice)  Project Muse
 Social Sciences Full Text
 Humanities Full Text
CGI (computer generated imagery) (ex:  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
photo-shopped “truth”; sampled actors in  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
cinema)  JSTOR
 Project Muse
 Social Sciences Full Text
MMORPG’S (massively multiplayer online  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
role playing games) (ex: its effect on our (pick  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
one) perception of reality & identity, racial  JSTOR
stereotypes, sense of personal power)  Project Muse
1 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012

2. Library Instruction
SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
Music video (ex: is it entertainment or advertising?)  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
 Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Surveillance (ex: its forms, attributes and counter-indications; issues of  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
privacy and human rights; psychological effects)  Internet (using syntax site:.gc.ca, image search with copyright and
permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Violence in (pick one area) television, advertising, video games or film  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
(ex: aestheticization of violence in Tarantino’s films)  Internet (using syntax site:.gc.ca, image search with copyright and
permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Representation and/or misrepresentation based on (pick one) race,  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
gender, age, sexual preference, disability or difference in (pick one)  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
advertising, television or film (ex: Images of older women in  Project Muse
advertising; depiction of first nations in film)  Humanities Full Text
 Social Sciences Full Text
The embodiment of technology, biological engineering and visuality  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
(ex: how cyborg are we, pros and cons?; glowing rabbits, robo-bugs &  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
hybridity, the limits of bioengineering)  JSTOR
 AGRICOLA
 Project Muse
Cyberculture (ex: virtual relationships & worlds; avatars and online  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
loves and lives)  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
2 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012

3. Library Instruction
SESSION OUTLINE EXAMPLE
 Project Muse
The News (ex: how information is managed to control mass beliefs and  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
actions; online connections & bypassing large corporations – is it  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 American History and Life
possible?)  Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
Reality television, Lifestyle magazines, tabloids (trailer trash truth or  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
worthy entertainment?)  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
 American History and Life
 Social Sciences Full Text
Advertising’s colonization of spaces (ex: billboards, buildings, clothing,  Library catalogue – subject search, words and phrases
movie, websites).  Internet (using syntax, image search with copyright and permissions)
 Academic Search Complete
 American History and Life
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
 Social Sciences Full Text
3 Julie Anne Kent, Hons. B.A., M.L.I.S. UPDATED September 2012