diff --git a/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs b/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs
index 05aa6a4c9f..564b281107 100644
--- a/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs
+++ b/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ pub struct ArrowReaderBuilder {
 
 impl ArrowReaderBuilder {
     /// Create a new ArrowReaderBuilder
-    pub(crate) fn new(file_io: FileIO) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(file_io: FileIO) -> Self {
         let num_cpus = available_parallelism().get();
 
         ArrowReaderBuilder {