Abstract:

With the advent of dataintensive scientific research, data is increasingly important to scientific research. Therefore, cultivating users’ ability of managing and using data, and promoting  data awareness of users have become core tasks for libraries. After investigating the literature on data literacy from the perspective of users, this paper used content analysis to induce research topics. Then a theoretical framework was built. From users’ data literacy needs, data literacy capability and data literacy education, this study reveals the findings in prior researches. Then by comparing the researches from domestic and other countries on research problems, objects and methods, this paper proposes some suggestions to the researches in the future: it is necessary to explore the needs of data for users, develop a complete data literacy ability evaluation system, and explore the data literacy requirements and behavioral characteristics of users with different majors, professions and situations.

Key words: University library, Data literacy, Data literacy requirements, Data literacy capability, Data literacy education