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Visual Literacy in Library Practice: Use of Images on the Facebook Pages of Croatian Public Libraries

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Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society (ECIL 2016)

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The goal of the research was to explore the specific phenomenon from the field of visual literacy: use of images on the Facebook pages of the ten Croatian public libraries. Using the content analysis, we created “image type” categories and subcategories of images that are posted by librarians and determined their shares in relation to the total number of analyzed image posts. Also, content analysis was used to determine the various roles of these images in communication with user community gathered around these Facebook pages. We created “image communication role” categories and subcategories and determined their shares in relation to the total number of analyzed image posts. While presenting the shares of “image type” and “image communication role” categories and subcategories, we also described examples of good practice with regard to the use of images in image posts.

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  1. Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia

    Mirko Duić

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Loriene Roy

  7. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Tolga Çakmak

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Duić, M. (2016). Visual Literacy in Library Practice: Use of Images on the Facebook Pages of Croatian Public Libraries. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_19

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