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Beyond Visual Culture: The Challenge of Visual Ecology
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 2, Number 2, April 2002
- pp. 189-206
- 10.1353/pla.2002.0038
- Article
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The library profession remains grounded in textual, print media, creating vulnerability amidst a culture increasingly characterized as visual. This essay develops a model of visual ecology to facilitate full appreciation of the challenge presented by the emerging visual-interactive culture. Librarians must engage the tools and practices of visualization in order to capture, preserve, and disseminate today's culture for posterity.