Wednesday, March 18, 2026

New articles: data literacy in community and formal education

borage plants in bloom with large green leaves and small blue flowers against a red brick wall and there is a tiny ladybird

When checking for yesterday's post on the Library Trends webinar, I realised it was worth highlighting all the articles in that Library Trends data literacy issue (volume 74, number 3, 2026, open access). The contents page is at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56412 
- Teaching Data Literacy in a Distrustful Environment: The Role of Critical Data Studies by Julia Bauder 
- Empowering Immigrant Library Users Through Personal Data Literacy Programming in Public Libraries by Hayley Park, Negeen Aghassibake 
- A Concept Analysis of Community Data Literacy by Amanda S. Hovious
- The Value of Data Literacy: Insights from Community College Students by Jeonghyun Kim, Brady Lund, Lingzi Hong 
- Fostering Data Literacy by Bridging Interdisciplinary Divides: Three Perspectives on Data Literacy Support at the University Level by Charlotte Kiger Price, Emma Slayton, Di Yoong 
- Not Another Boot Camp: Toward an Inclusive Computational Pedagogy by Dolsy Smith, Daphna Atias, Emily Blumenthal, Alex Boyd, Madeline Doering, Katelyn Morgan, Marcus Peerman, Robin Pokorski, Max Turer 
- Data Curation as Data Literacy Education: Grad’s Declassified Data Survival Guide by Summer Mengarelli, Mikala Narlock 
- Fostering Civic Data Literacy in Libraries: The Civic Switchboard Project by Eleanor Mattern, Marcia Rapchak, Chelsea Gunn, Aaron Brenner, Liz Monk, Robert Gradeck 
- Navigating Food Insecurity, Many Data Points at a Time: A Case Study of Georgia State University Library’s Public Interest Data Literacy Learning Lab Course by Halley E. M. Riley, Ashley Rockwell, Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh 
- Evolving Landscape of Data Education in Library and Information Science Programs: A Content Analysis of American Library Association–Accredited Curricula by Kaypounyers “Kay P” Maye, Amy C. Schuler, Chelsea H. Barrett, Ryan T. Hedrick
Photo by Sheila Webber: borage and spot the ladybird, March 2026

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