Visual Literacy for Libraries: A Practical, Standards-Based Guide

It can be difficult to know where to look for images and how to navigate the millions of choices available. The resources, strategies, and activities in this chapter will build your repertoire of approaches to finding images and guiding students as they look for images. Finding images is not as simple as knowing where to look. Like all research, it is an iterative process that involves multimodal exploration, browsing, learning more, and then exploring further. There may be times when you are looking for a specific image, with an established title and creator. But more often, visual content is not easily defined by words. This chapter reveals sources and search strategies for finding the images you need