Social Studies & Data Services Librarian; Director of the Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab
Grinnell College
Julia Bauder is the Social Studies and Data Services Librarian and the director of the Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab at Grinnell College. Her scholarly interests are at the intersection of data, technology, and information literacy. How can colleges make sure that all students are data literate? What would it look like to take “data across the curriculum” or “digital literacy across the curriculum” as seriously as many colleges take “writing across the curriculum”? She has edited two books in which contributors from libraries across the country have tackled aspects of these questions: Data Literacy in Academic Libraries: Teaching Critical Thinking with Numbers (ALA Editions, 2021) and Teaching Research Data Management (ALA Editions, 2022).
She also enjoys figuring out creative ways to use technology to solve information discovery and access problems, and has published articles on using open-source software and flash drives to create library catalogs for use by incarcerated students and on adding visualizations to library catalogs to make large results sets easier to navigate.
She earned her B.A. from Simon’s Rock College and her MLIS from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.