Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.5860/ital.v42i3.16925
Rachel Fischer
To assist public libraries with diversity audits, several automated services have been created. This article provides an overview of automated diversity audit services, including a homegrown option.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.5860/ital.v42i3.15535
Jessica McClure, Carl Hess, David Marsicano
At the University of Memphis, a team of librarians and library staff formed the Research Guides Redesign Team (RGRT) to redesign, organize, and evaluate the University Libraries’ (UL) research guides. The purpose of the project was to ensure that the new design of the research guides homepage was intuitive to use. While it is impossible to ensure absolute usability for every user, this usability study attempts to eradicate the most common interface issues in community experiences at the University of Memphis. The RGRT conducted usability testing to evaluate the effectiveness of the new standardized format, grouped headings, and the appearance of the interface. The RGRT worked within the limitations of Springshare’s software to create the design and then chose five users to complete various task scenarios. Upon analysis of the users’ ability to complete the tasks, the RGRT discovered that overall, the design was effective, but they did make a few minor changes. This study describes the process and includes the original design, the new design, edits made after usability testing was conducted, and plans for future testing.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.5860/ital.v42i3.16233
Katelyn Angell
In 2021, the assessment-data management librarian at Lehman College Library decided to conduct a privacy audit of the Library’s public computers and networks. This audit comprised one of the Library’s two annual formal assessments of resources and services. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Library Privacy Checklist for Public Access Computers and Networks was selected to review 17 key items related to protecting user privacy and confidentiality. Faculty and staff from Circulation, Library Technology, and Online Learning identified 10 indicators needing work. Suggestions are provided for collaboratively resolving these issues and future steps are described to continuously maximize the online security of the campus community.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.5860/ital.v42i3.16943
Kenneth J. Varnum, Marisha C. Kelly
Information Technology and Libraries has moved to our new hosting platform. We provide an update on Editorial Board activities and summarize the content of this issue.
信息技术和图书馆已经转移到我们新的托管平台。我们提供编辑委员会活动的最新情况，并总结本期的内容。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.5860/ital.v42i3.16295
Richard Brzustowicz
This paper explores the potential of language models such as ChatGPT to transform library cataloging. Through experiments with ChatGPT, the author demonstrates its ability to generate accurate MARC records using RDA and other standards such as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. These results demonstrate the potential of ChatGPT as a tool for streamlining the record creation process and improving efficiency in library settings. The use of AI-generated records, however, also raises important questions related to intellectual property rights and bias. The paper reviews recent studies on AI in libraries and concludes that further research and development of this innovative technology is necessary to ensure its responsible implementation in the field of library cataloging.
本文探讨了ChatGPT等语言模型在转换图书馆编目方面的潜力。通过ChatGPT的实验，作者证明了它能够使用RDA和其他标准(如Dublin Core Metadata Element Set)生成准确的MARC记录。这些结果证明了ChatGPT作为简化记录创建过程和提高图书馆设置效率的工具的潜力。然而，使用人工智能生成的记录也引发了与知识产权和偏见有关的重要问题。本文回顾了人工智能在图书馆中的最新研究，并得出结论，有必要进一步研究和开发这一创新技术，以确保其在图书馆编目领域的负责任实施。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.5860/ital.v42i3.15977
Hamid Reza Saeidnia, Marcin Kozak, Brady Lund, Nishith Reddy Mannuru, Hamid Keshavarz, Bakthavachalam Elango, Afshin Babajani, Ali Ghorbi
Universities and scientific educational institutions today need targeted information services to ensure that their user communities have the information they need. This study aims to design, develop, implement, and evaluate a mobile application for academic library services at Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran, Iran). A four-stage process was utilized to accomplish this aim. In the first phase, relevant literature was reviewed to obtain appropriate data requirements for the app. A questionnaire was designed and administered to survey expert librarians on the most suitable data requirements. The second phase involved the design of the user interface and user experience with the assistance of experts, followed by the evaluation of the experience. The third phase involved the development of the app in the Android Studio environment using the Java programming language, based on the requirements identified in the first and second phases. The app was then made available to the user community. Finally, the app was evaluated in the fourth phase using a questionnaire tool. The researchers found this approach to application development to be both economical and effective in the context of a developing country.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.5860/ital.v42i3.16209
Matus Formanek
This study discusses the importance of the DSpace open-source software that supports numerous digital libraries and repositories around the world. With the release of DSpace version 7, a natural question that arises is whether the new version offers enough new functionalities to motivate system administrators to upgrade. This paper briefly describes the most important changes, including new features and bug fixes, included in DSpace 7.4 and prior minor versions. The next parts of this paper explore our estimate that there are several thousand DSpace-based systems globally that will likely have to be upgraded in the near future. The main reason for this need is that older versions of DSpace (including 5.x) have reached the end of their developer support period or are reaching it in mid-2023. Based on our own upgrade experience, we propose suggestions and recommendations on migrating from the previous DSpace 6.3-based environment to the new one in a case study that concludes this article.
本研究讨论了支持世界各地众多数字图书馆和存储库的DSpace开源软件的重要性。随着DSpace version 7的发布，一个自然的问题是新版本是否提供了足够的新功能来激励系统管理员进行升级。本文简要描述了DSpace 7.4和之前的小版本中最重要的变化，包括新功能和错误修复。本文的下一部分探讨了我们的估计，即在不久的将来，全球可能有数千个基于dspace的系统需要升级。出现这种需求的主要原因是旧版本的DSpace(包括5.x)已经达到了开发人员支持期的结束，或者将在2023年中期达到。根据我们自己的升级经验，我们在本文的最后一个案例研究中提出了从以前基于DSpace 6.3的环境迁移到新环境的建议和建议。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.6017/ital.v42i2.16619
Mary Carrier
Mary Carrier serves as the Technology & Growth Specialist for the four counties of the Mohawk Valley Library System in Schenectady, New York. Prior to this position, Mary dedicated over 15 years to teaching digital literacy and technology trends at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library, a suburban public library that has over 40,000 registered patrons and 1,500 visitors per day. The community has a strong presence in youth and family programs and is a popular place for teens and children to learn, play, and create. In 2015, she began offering coding and STEM classes to children and teens at the library and in the community as outreach programs. Mary will share her expertise in technology programming for children and teens and the importance of planning, preparing, and testing curriculum for coding and robotics classes.
Mary Carrier是纽约斯克内克塔迪莫霍克谷图书馆系统四个县的技术和增长专家。在此之前，玛丽致力于在克利夫顿公园半月公共图书馆教授数字素养和技术趋势超过15年，这是一个郊区的公共图书馆，每天有超过40,000名注册顾客和1,500名访客。该社区在青少年和家庭项目中有很强的影响力，是青少年和儿童学习、玩耍和创造的热门场所。2015年，她开始在图书馆和社区为儿童和青少年提供编程和STEM课程，作为推广项目。Mary将分享她在儿童和青少年技术编程方面的专业知识，以及为编程和机器人课程规划、准备和测试课程的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.6017/ital.v42i2.15201
Hanwen Dong
In 2021, alongside seven colleges at the University of Idaho campus, the University of Idaho Library received an eGlass system (https://eglass.io) with funding from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Grant to expand faculty’s capacity to create instructional videos. The eGlass is a transparent glass whiteboard that allows instructors to write, draw, and annotate. It comes with a built-in camera that can capture instructors’ facial expressions and gestures while facing their remote students and allow better engagement. The eGlass is suitable for creating asynchronous instructional videos for flipped classrooms and integrating Zoom for synchronous online classes. This article details the eGlass equipment setup, studio space optimization, outreach efforts and initiatives, usage examples of early adopters, lessons learned during the first year of the eGlass deployment, and future considerations.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.6017/ital.v42i2.15701
M. Cahill, Erin Ingram, Soohyung Joo
Technology use is widespread in the lives of children and families, and parents and caregivers express concern about children’s safety and development in relation to technology use. Children’s librarians have a unique role to play in guiding the technology use of children and families, yet little is known about how public library programs facilitate children’s digital literacy. This study sought to uncover librarians’ purposes for using technology in programs with young children as well as the supporting factors and barriers they encountered in attempting to do so. Findings reveal 10 purposes for integrating technology into public library storytime programs and 15 factors across four dimensions that facilitate and/or inhibit its inclusion. If librarians are to embrace the media mentor role with confidence and the necessary knowledge and skills required of the task, much greater attention should be devoted to the responsibility and more support in the way of professional development and resources is necessary.
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