TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a new approach to education for library/information students in data literacy – the principles and practice of data collection, manipulation and management – as a part of the Masters programmes in library and information science (CityLIS) at City, University of London.Design/methodology/approach The course takes a socio-technical approach, integrating, and giving equal importance to, technical and social/ethical aspects. Topics covered include: the relation between data, information and documents; representation of digital data; network technologies; information architecture; metadata; data structuring; search engines, databases and specialised retrieval tools; text and data mining, web scraping; data cleaning, manipulation, analysis and visualisation; coding; data metrics and analytics; artificial intelligence; data management and data curation; data literacy and data ethics; and constructing data narratives.Findings The course, which was well received by students in its first iteration, gives a basic grounding in data literacy, to be extended by further study, professional practice and lifelong learning.Originality/value This is one of the first accounts of an introductory course to equip all new entrants to the library/information professions with the understanding and skills to take on roles in data librarianship and data management.
VL  - 38
IS  - 6/7
SN  - 0143-5124
DO  - 10.1108/LM-01-2017-0009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-01-2017-0009
AU  - Robinson Lyn
AU  - Bawden David
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - “The story of data”: A socio-technical approach to education for the data librarian role in the CityLIS library school at City, University of London
T2  - Library Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 312
EP  - 322
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -