Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

Libraries faculty publication recognized on LIRT’s Top Twenty Articles list

July 20th, 2012

“Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty” has been selected as one of the Top Twenty  Articles, by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT).

The article, co-written by Libraries faculty members, Jake Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller and Megan Sapp Nelson, was published in portal: Libraries and the Academy in 2011 and introduced the concept of data information literacy, providing some preliminary insight into how data information literacy might be defined.

LIRT’s Top Twenty Committee published their annual annotated bibliography of top publications in the field of instruction and information literacy in the June 2012 edition of LIRT News. The Committee is responsible for monitoring the library instruction literature and identifying high quality library-instruction related articles from all types of libraries.