The ACRLNY Professional Development Committee, ACRLNY Open Discussion Group, and LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable invite you to a Summer 2023 conversation with Grace Liu. Our informal conversation will start with reflections on her current IMLS grant-funded project on Data Quality Evaluation [sites.google.com] and will continue by talking to her about her professional growth over the past years, directing several other grant projects.
When: Friday June 16 3:00-4:30
Where: In-person at Fordham Lincoln Center Campus and Online via meeting software.
(Details will be sent to registrants)
Guest Speaker: Grace Liu, Assistant Professor, West Chester University
Conversation Facilitator: Kathryn Shaughnessy, Associate Professor, St. John’s University
Registration: please register by Wed June 14, 2023 at the following link
In light of the data-driven decision making in universities and in light of the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP)’s “Nelson Memo” [whitehouse.gov] expanding public access to federally-funded research through open research and data, academic and research librarians are increasingly being asked to engage with data. We will start our conversation with Prof. Liu about her current project, “National Forum on Building Capacity of Academic Librarians in Understanding Quantitative Data, Data Quality Problems, and Evaluating Data Quality” [sites.google.com] which aims to “help raise academic librarians’ awareness of data quality problems, fill our knowledge gaps, and build our capacity and confidence in teaching data evaluation, critical thinking about data, and data literacy. As a long-term impact, the project will demonstrate the library’s impact on cultivating data-literate citizens, improving the quality and integrity of scholarly output, reducing the social and economic costs caused by data quality issues, and improving the quality of data-driven decision-making.”
Prof. Liu’s Data Quality Evaluation project has already hosted a number of fora, upcoming sessions in her project will include sessions “Evolving Employer Expectations [sites.google.com]” and “Librarians’ Role in Cultivating Data-Literate Citizens [sites.google.com].”
Please join us as we have an informal conversation about her professional development as a scholar, information professional, and successful grant director.
All ACRL/NY events, programs, and discussion groups are guided by our Code of Conduct. For more information, please see https://acrlny.org/about2/
This program is open to ACRLNY and LACUNY members.
If you are unsure of your ACRLNY membership status, please contact Werner Sbaschnik, membership secretary, at sbaschnikw@oldwestbury.edu
If you have other questions, please reach out:
ACRLNY PD: Kathryn Shaughnessy shaughnk@stjohns.edu
ACRLNY OPEN & LACUNY Monica Berger: MBerger@CityTech.Cuny.edu
LACUNY SRT: Nancy Foasberg: Nancy.Foasberg@qc.cuny.edu