INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC) 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 COLLOQUIUM-5 (2016-2017) Information Literacy and the need of Data Literacy Abstract The term literacy brings to our mind the common definition “ability to read and write”. This simple definition has now evolved as the ability to identify, interpret, create and compute various materials. Information literacy is an extended form of literacy. In academia, information literacy is defined as an ability to know the need of information, identify the right information and its effective use in our daily scholarly and academic activities. The concepts like literacy skills, literacy forms and models are the essential aspects of information literacy.

From being information-driven society, there is an increasing emphasis on data-driven society. Similar to information literacy, data literacy is the ability to read, create and communicate data as information. It is the ability to derive meaningful information from data. It is at this crossroads, that it has become more necessary to know about data. This

colloquium sheds light on the information literacy and need of data literacy. The colloquium is organized as follows: Speakers Topics Susheel Chourasiya Introduction Supriya Bag Information literacy skills Naveen Patil Information literacy models Harish Kumar T Information literacy models Amit Tiwari Information literacy standards Amrish Dubey Case study (Information literacy) Dipanjan Munshi Data literacy and its need Harsha Rathi Library and data literacy Goutam Mondal Key challenges in data literacy Udaya Varadarajan Conclusion

Date : 19-04-17 Time : 2.00 pm Venue : DRTC Class Room (G-16),ISI Bangalore All are cordially invited Coordinator Dr. Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.