Projects & Musings - Ben Chiewphasa

Data literacy: Navigating the shift from hype to reality. Edited by Ben B. Chew-pah-sah. Library Trends. Context regarding hype. Reframing or rescoping longstanding efforts. Reaction to the peak of inflated expectations. Priorities from above. The currency of cool.

Recording Available | Library Trends 74 (3) Webinar: “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality”

April 2, 2026 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

Happy to share that the recording for the Library Trends webinar, “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality,” is now available. As moderator, it was a true pleasure to see the ideas of […]

Library Trends. Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality. Edited by Ben B. Chew-pah-sah. Volume 74. Number 3. February twenty-twenty six.

Now Published! Library Trends 74 (3): “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality”

February 26, 2026 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

Incredibly excited to say that Library Trends 74 (3), “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality,” is now out in the world! This issue features authors exploring the urgent need to build a […]

Openness in Practice: New Visions of Collaborative Publishing from The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

November 29, 2025 Uncategorized by Ben Chiewphasa

It was a lot of fun participating in a panel with colleagues Leah Duncan (Davidson College), Jeanine Finn (Claremont Colleges), and Kae Bara Kratcha (Columbia University). Our discussion focused on navigating the successes and challenges […]

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Data Literacy in Context: Leveraging Resources with Intent

April 24, 2025 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

This past February (2025), I had the wonderful opportunity to be an invited speaker for the Data Literacy in Action Webinar Series, part of the Data Literacy for Community College project (led by librarians/faculty affiliated […]

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 […]