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Catherine Murray-Rust , Ameet Doshi , Jay Forrest , Ximin Mi , Alison Valk , Cynthia Parr , Susan A. McCarthy , Mary B. Kennedy , Elizabeth R. Guest , Judy Ruttenberg , Cynthia Hudson‐Vitale ·

YOU? · · 2019 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.298 · OA: W4253482431

A 2019 Gartner report, Design a Data and Analytics Strategy, asserts that "data literacy is a growing challenge for most organizations.By 2020, 80% of organizations will initiate deliberate competency development in the field of data literacy, acknowledging their extreme deficiency." 1 Campus collaborations increasingly rely on the ability to curate big data in support of the research community, and undergraduate and graduate student work increasingly requires basic skills in interpreting and presenting data.Librarians in their role as educators-serving the whole campus and the whole person-appreciate that data literacy, as distinct from data science in support of research, is fast becoming a required second language in a digital society.