Introducing transliteracy. Tom Ipri + Author Affiliations Transliteracy is recent terminology gaining currency in the library world. It is a broad term encompassing and transcending many existing concepts. Because transliteracy is not a library-centric concept, many in the profession are unsure what the term means and how it relates to libraries’ instructional mission and to other existing ideas about various literacies. Transliteracy originated with the cross-disciplinary Transliteracies Project group, headed by Alan Liu from the Department of English at the University of California-Santa Barbara. The essential idea here is that transliteracy is concerned with mapping meaning across different media and not with developing particular literacies about various media.
Basically, transliteracy is concerned with what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Transliteracy is new enough to be unknown to many in the library profession. Transliteracy is very concerned with the social meaning of literacy. New Media Literacies — Learning in a Participatory Culture. Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy. Metaliteracy. Metaliteracy.org. Metaliteracy | PCC Library. Libraries and Transliteracy.