Exploring student motivations to engage with voluntary data literacy library workshops

Due to the nature of voluntary data literacy library instruction, such workshops often struggle to achieve high enrollment and attendance. Looking to understand this phenomenon better, a qualitative study was conducted to gain insights into learner motivations and challenges when engaging in voluntary data literacy instruction offered by the Map & Data Library at the University of Toronto. As part of this investigation, workshop titles and descriptions were explored to see what impact they had on enrollment motivation. This presentation discusses some of the themes uncovered through this research, provides suggestions on how to address these findings, and presents some of the ongoing work done since to improve library data literacy workshop engagement.