Publications

Kim, J., Evans, S., Hong, L., Olyer-Rice, E., & Oladapo, L. (2024). Data literacy in flux: Perspectives of community college librarians on evolving educational demands and library capacities. Library & Information Science Research, 46(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2024.101327
Kim, J., Hong, L., & Evans, S. (2024). Towards measuring data literacy for higher education: Developing and validating a data literacy self-efficacy scale. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 75(8), 916-931. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24934
Evans, S., Hong, L., Kim, J., Oyler-Rice, E., & Ali, I. (2023). Community college students' self-assessment of data literacy: Exploring differences amongst demographic, academic, and career characteristics. Information and Learning Sciences. 125(3/4), 232-251. DOI 10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0065
Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S., Oyler-Rice, E., & Ali, I. (2023). Development and validation of a data literacy assessment scale. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 620-624. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.827 **This paper ranked among the top 10% of the most-viewed papers in 2023**

Presentations

The poster titled "Capacity building for data literacy leadership among community college librarians" was presented by Dr. Kim, Dr. Hong, and Dr. Lund, and Kwon at the ACRL 2025.
Dr. Kim hostd a Winter institute titled "Empowering information professionals through data literacy: Skills, applications, and ethics" at JCDL 2024.
Dr. Kim participated in the panel titled "Data literacy in supporting an inclusive information environment" at iConference 2023.
The poster titled "Toward an understanding of data literacy needs in community colleges: A conceptual framework" was presented by Dr. Kim, Dr. Hong, Dr. Evans, Ali, and Rice-Oyler at the ACRL 2023.
The poster titled " A comparative analysis of data literacy competency framework" was presented by Dr. Kim and Catrina Berka at the ALISE 2022 Annual Meeting .
The poster titled "Defining data literacy: An empirical study of data literacy dimension" was presented by Drs. Kim, Hong, and Evans at the ALISE 2021 Annual Meeting .