30. Students and Community Partners Navigating Food Insecurity, Many Data Points at a Time: Overview of Georgia State University Library's Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) Learning Lab Course

Poster will give an overview of the two-semester experiential-learning course they designed and taught in the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 by Research Data Services (RDS) faculty from the Georgia State University Library’s Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) grant-funded initiative (https://lib.gsu.edu/pidlit). The “Tackling Food Insecurity” PIDLit Learning Lab connected students with partner organizations to apply data skills to address the real-world problem of food insecurity. The poster will: (1) give a brief overview of the course content and array of assignments, (2) detail the partner-driven data collection, analysis, and reporting activities in which students engaged, (3) highlight the successes, the challenges, and the lessons learned for future course offerings, and (4) facilitate discussion with poster attendees regarding the benefit of others considering developing and teaching similar applied experiential-learning courses.