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What about data literacy? Business librarians and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy

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What about data literacy? Business librarians and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy
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Release Date2022
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To meet current and future workforce needs, business students entering the job market should be literate in working with and using data for a variety of purposes. Our presentation focuses on addressing business librarians as key stakeholders in the development of services to help improve data literacy in business and economics. While general and discipline-specific data literacy competencies have been identified, our work focuses on the data literacy needs seen in the disciplines of Business & Economics. In previous work (2019), we identified seven baseline business data literacy competencies that filled gaps in student and employee knowledge around data and data literacy. More recently, we mapped those data literacy competencies to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (Framework). This mapping helps establish a bridge between foundational library professional documents, business librarianship, and data literacy both in higher education and in the workplace, extending the conversation to how the Framework informs data literacy instruction. In this presentation we summarize the seven baseline business data literacy competencies and outline how they can be mapped to the Framework. From this mapping, we explore how business librarians can incorporate teaching data literacy skills and provide instruction informed by the Framework. This research will provide audience members with both context and foundation to develop strategies that integrate data literacy and the Framework into library instruction specific to the disciplines of Business & Economics.