Projects & Musings - Ben Chiewphasa

Guest Editor for Library Trends Issue on Data Literacy

November 14, 2024 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

Since 2012, libraries have evolved their efforts to support data literacy—a means to empower their patrons to confidently identify, collect, evaluate, analyze, interpret, present, and protect data(sets) they encounter—following Christine L. Borgman’s observation of the […]

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IASSIST & CARTO 2024: Integrating Open Government Data Perspectives within Data Literacy Efforts

June 6, 2024 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

In late May of 2024, I traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) & CARTO (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives) conference! IASSIST […]

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Disasters: The Stories We Share at Columbia University Libraries

November 7, 2023 Uncategorized by Ben Chiewphasa

It has been an honor working on the NEH-funded Sharing Stories of Community Resilience to Disasters: Designing a New Model for Collaborative Traveling Exhibits project as the co-PI with Susanne Caro (PI, New Mexico State […]

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Librarians for Critical Digital Justice

May 26, 2023 Data Literacy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Ben Chiewphasa

This past March 2023, I was honored to have been an invited speaker for “Librarians for Critical Digital Justice,” a webinar sponsored by the Department of Information Studies at the University College London. In this […]

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Leveraging Critical Information Literacy to Develop Social Justice-Minded Data Literacy Competencies

February 27, 2023 Data Literacy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Ben Chiewphasa

Check out my new paper (written with my dear friend Dr. Matthew Sisk) that encourages academic librarians to join forces–no matter what branch/unit/”silo” you fall under in your respective organization–to champion critical data literacy and […]

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CarpentryCon2022 Lightning Talk: Pre-Workshop Team Meetups: How to Set Up for Success

September 14, 2022 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

My lightning talk for CarpentryCon2022 is now available on YouTube (closed captions in English, French, Japanese, and Spanish): https://youtu.be/DQ3PfJrgo0Y Abstract:One essential pre-workshop checklist item involves organizing “a meetup with the instructors the day before the […]

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Centering a BIPOC Library Workforce

March 14, 2022 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Ben Chiewphasa

Excited to share with you all an autoethnographic piece I wrote with my dear friend Janis J. Shearer; we’re both proud alums of the ARL Kaleidoscope Program. Read the full article in the “Anti-Racist Action […]

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Eurasian Rainfall Map Featured in the Washington Post

March 11, 2022 Data Visualization by Ben Chiewphasa

A Eurasian rainfall map I created was featured in a Washington Post story by Lee Powell (and YouTube video) discussing economic fallout and the wheat supply chain. The map was initially the outcome of a […]

Love Data Week. February fourteenth thru eighteenth. 2022.

Love Data Week 2022

February 24, 2022 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

Over 100 students, faculty, and staff from across the Notre Dame campus took part in this year’s Love Data Week celebration with the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship. Session materials (slides and/or recordings) for […]

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Data Literacy, Community Engagement, and Librarianship

November 26, 2021 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

I had the pleasure of being a guest contributor for Service Learning Librarian, a discussion hub focused on service-learning and its connections to libraries, librarians, and information literacy. Check out my piece that discusses Asset-Based […]