(via Melissa Wong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 74 (3) “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality”. Guest editor and Library Trends editorial board member Ben B. Chiewphasa (MSLIS ’19) uses this issue to explore the intersection of technological hype and practical reality in librarianship through the lens of data literacy. Among other themes, authors explore the need to build a data-literate society; the evolution of data literacy in higher education settings; and the skills users need to develop to investigate and interact with data.
This issue is published with open access. Please access the issue here.
On Wednesday, March 25, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT, Library Trends will host a free webinar on data literacy featuring Chiewphasa and select authors. Registration is required.
Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print.
Back issues (1952 through two years prior to the current issue) are available online through IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Please send ideas, inquiries, or issue proposals via email to Melissa Wong, editor in chief, at librarytrends@illinois.edu.