Data Literacy in the Real World

Amy Lennex has worked in the publishing industry for nearly 20 years editing series nonfiction, middle-grade fiction, and picture books. She’s also the author of Personal Data Management, part of the eight-book Data Geek series published by Cherry Lake Publishing. She provided project management and editing support for the Supporting Librarians in Adding Data Literacy Skills to Information Literacy Instruction project.Kristin Fontichiaro is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Universityof Michigan and principal investigator on the SupportingLibrarians in Adding Data Literacy Skills to Information LiteracyInstruction project (IMLS RE-00-15-0113-15). A Library JournalMover and Shaker and member of the American Library Association’sinaugural class of Emerging Leaders, she has written severalbooks for educators, librarians, and K-12 readers.Jo Angela Oehrli is a former high school and middle schoolteacher who helps students find information on a wide rangeof topics as a Learning Librarian at the University of MichiganLibraries -- Ann Arbor. In addition, she supports the students inthe Women in Science and Engineering Residential Program andthe students in the Michigan Research Community ResidentialProgram as well as undergraduates across campus. She has publishedarticles on library instruction, served as Chair of ALA LIRT’sTop Twenty Committee, serves on the ACRL Instruction SectionExecutive Board & the LOEX Advisory Board, and has worked asan adjunct lecturer for UM’s School of Information & the Collegeof Literature, Science and the Arts. She also supports the researchand instructional needs for those throughout the university communitywho are studying children’s literature at any level.Kelly Hovinga is enrolled in the University of Michigan School of Information, where she will be receiving a Master of Science in Information in 2018. She received a Masters in Art from the The Ohio State University for Russian History in 2014. We try not to hold it against her. Kelly currently works at the Stephen S. Clark Library in the rare maps collection.Tyler Hoff is enrolled at the University of Michigan School of Information, and expects to graduate in the Spring of 2018. He primarily studies databases and information organization with a side of library studies, and is excited to be part of educating a new generation of more data literate and aware students.