This study profiles the efforts of six university libraries in choosing and deploying data visualization applications in a broad range of efforts including but not limited to: in information literacy efforts, in the library's own presentation and strategic planning efforts, in cooperation with data labs, repositories, academic departments and other university centers and departments. The six universities or colleges profiled are: New York University, the University of Washington, the University of California at Santa Barbara, St. John Fisher College, the University of Michigan and Duke University.