While information literacy may be the primary literacy that librarians teach to students, there are other related literacies that are important as well.
"Visual literacy is a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media."
This definition from the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education establishes a visual literacy as a set of abilities that parallel the older ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Like the IL Competency Standards present performance indicators and learning outcomes for the visually literate student. At the heart is the idea that today's information landscape is highly visual and that "visual literacy empowers individuals to participate fully in a visual culture."
Even among librarians there is disagreement about what constitutes digital literacy, but broadly understood it is about knowing how to use digital tools to access information and to create and collaborate. The American Library Association's Digital Literacy Task Force defined digital literacy as “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” Thus, there definition parallels the finding, evaluating, and creating that is also found in the information literacy and visual literacy competency standards.
Teaching digital literacy encompasses the entire curriculum as their are specialized skills that can be taught by computer scientists, graphic designers, and musicians, but the importance of students being able to use and evaluate digital tools cannot be underestimated.