Research Assessment and Metrics Discussion Group

FREE Online Presentation: Considering Data Literacy Using Kuhlthau's Information Search Process: Implications for Librarians and Data Providers
Charissa Jefferson, Kristin Fontichiaro, Katrina Stierholz, Lynette Hoelter

Monday, August 16th at 1pm Central
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Sponsored by the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee

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This panel discusses uses of Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP) to illustrate ways that librarians can assist students and collaborate with data providers to improve the data search process. Librarians and data providers share similar data literacy goals, and this panel pools the expertise of both groups to focus on strategies and interventions that support novice researchers. We explore our combined experiences and jointly step through students' research phases to examine how each group can contribute to improving that experience. Moreover, we explore ways to review students' data literacy needs throughout the research process through the lens of Kuhlthau's six-stage, iterative ISP. Kuhlthau's framework, rooted in empathy, maps to existing knowledge about what students do, think, and feel at various stages of the search process. We encourage participants to identify "zones of intervention" that are both consistent with Kuhlthau's research and are novel to data-rich research projects.

Presenter bios

Charissa Jefferson is the Labor Economics Librarian at the Princeton University Library.

Kristin Fontichiaro is a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.

Katrina Stierholz is group vice president and director of Library and Research Information Services at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Lynette Hoelter is an associate archivist at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

This free presentation is sponsored by the ACRL University Libraries Section Professional Development Committee. It will take place on Monday, July 26th, 2021 from 1pm to 2pm Central time via Zoom. Register here: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hBNELjkbSuu1u1DhKJOC4Q 

If you can't make this session but wish to view a recording later, please register so that you'll receive an email that includes a link to the video of the presentation.

Please direct questions and concerns to Laura Gariepy (lwgariepy@vcu.edu) or Sam Harlow (slharlow@uncg.edu), co-chairs of the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee. A full list of the committee's past and future programs are available here.