Dr. Xu is an Associate Professor of Library. She joined Queens College (QC) as a Data Services Librarian in 2018. Her data services include data consultation, preparation, analysis, and visualization. She collaborates with units inside and outside the QC Library to promote data literacy, data resource collection, and research data management in the QC community. She also liaisons with Accounting, Business, Economics, Risk Management, and Asian Studies & Asian Languages. She served as a liaison to Sociology in the 2018-2019 academic year.

• • Data Services
  • Accounting
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Risk Management
  • East Asian Studies

• • Library Data Services and Librarianship
  • Research Data Management
  • Library Assessment
  • User Engagement

• • Data Services Workshops
    • Introduction to R and RStudio
    • Introduction to RDM
    • Introduction to Data Analysis with Python
    • Data Resources for Business Research
  • In-Class Data Science & Data Services Sessions
    • Data Analytics: DATA306, DATA716, DATA605, DATA634
    • Using SPSS Remotely: FNES 307W
  • In-Class Bibliographic Sessions
    • Accounting: ACCT362W, ACCT385/791, ACCT760
    • Business: BUS160W, BUS243, BUS344
    • Business and Liberal Arts: BALA250/MEDST260, BALA303, BALA3983
    • Economics: ECON223W, ECON233, ECON249
    • East Asian Studies: EAST230  EAST235
    • English: ENGL110
    • Media Studies: MEDST264
    • Sociology: SOC212W,  SOC331, SOC381W, SOC205 (2018-2019)

• • Credit Courses
    • LBSCI700: The Technology of Information (Graduate, spring 2019)

• • Xu, Q., & Naughton, R. (2025). Visualizing library historical data for assessing library digital services usage. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 29(2), 181–198. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2479599
  • Xu, Q. (2025). Investigating and understanding library data services to support college student data literacy competencies: A conceptual framework. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 57(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231196604 (First published online September 15, 2023)
  • Xu, Q. (2025), Modeling college faculty users’ potential acceptance of library data services for research and teaching, Information Discovery and Delivery, 53(1), 109-123. https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-10-2023-0115 (First published online May 21, 2024)
  • Xu, Q. (2021). Data Repositories as a Service Supporting Research and Teaching: A Conceptual Framework. Proceedings of the 2020–2021 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, October 29, 2020–March 17, 2021, virtual conference. https://www.libraryassessment.org/2020-proceedings/#teaching.
  • Xu, Q. (2020). SAS Data Curation Primer. Data Curation Network. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216586.
  • Xu, Q. (2020). Validating and developing the user engagement scale in web-based visual information searching. The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, 16(3), 21-45. https://doi.org/10.18848/1832-3669/CGP/v16i03/21-45.
  • Mellone, J. T., Wall, E. F.III, & Xu, Q. (2019). Supporting the Changing Practices of Teaching in Business at Queens College, City University of New York. An Ithaka S+R Research Project, Local Report, November 2019.
    • CUNY Academic Works: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/358/
    • ERIC Document ED600143: https://eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED600143