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The ACRL Image Resources Interest Group is working on developing Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, based on ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards.  The Visual Literacy Competency Standards will be developed according to the process established by the ACRL Information Literacy Standards Committee, outlined in Tip Sheet 4:  Developing subject specific information literacy standards, and the Checklist for developing subject-specific information literacy standards. The ILSC has given its support to this project.

Many individuals and organizations have a deep and broad interest and investment in visual literacy and visual literacy instruction. The Visual Literacy Standards Task Force and Advisory Group (see Working Groups) will be consulting broadly with visual literacy experts and practitioners across disciplines, and will collaborate across sections and organizations to develop a useful and community-supported standard for visual literacy competency in higher education.

We strongly encourage your participation in this blog. If you have an interest in visual literacy, your ideas will enrich the standards development process, and the final standards document. Please jump in, and thank you!