W hen it comes to information access, academic librarians are advocates for openness. They demonstrate a strong commitment to creating cultures of openness at their institutions, leading the way for others to grasp the power and benefits of open access publishing, open education practices, open data sharing, and more. Breaking down information barriers while establishing pathways to unfettered and free access is a core professional value. It’s probably safe to say that academic librarians have yet to encounter an open concept they refuse to embrace. Well, there might be one exception.
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In May 2023, amidst the fanfare and outcries over ChatGPT, Google quietly rolled out early access to new features in Search Labs, a user-based experimental testing ground for Search Generative Experience (SGE). Google pitches SGE as a new way of searching that uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to “understand a topic faster, uncover new viewpoints and insights, and get things done more easily,” but later adds that it also helps make “complex purchase decisions faster and much easier.” 2 Interested users can simply tap the Labs icon in Google Chrome or a Google search on an Android device to sign up. Opting in gives Google the right to collect and analyze your usage, queries, and location for development and machine learning.
{"title":"Google SGE: A new way to search, teach, and resist","authors":"Tessa Withorn","doi":"10.5860/crln.84.10.373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.10.373","url":null,"abstract":"In May 2023, amidst the fanfare and outcries over ChatGPT, Google quietly rolled out early access to new features in Search Labs, a user-based experimental testing ground for Search Generative Experience (SGE). Google pitches SGE as a new way of searching that uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to “understand a topic faster, uncover new viewpoints and insights, and get things done more easily,” but later adds that it also helps make “complex purchase decisions faster and much easier.” 2 Interested users can simply tap the Labs icon in Google Chrome or a Google search on an Android device to sign up. Opting in gives Google the right to collect and analyze your usage, queries, and location for development and machine learning.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134890139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic Library Workers in Conversation is a bimonthly C&RL News series focused on elevating the everyday conversations of library professionals. The wisdom of the watercooler has long been heralded, but this series hopes to go further by minimizing barriers to traditional publishing with an accessible format. Each of the topics in the series were proposed by the authors and they were given space to explore. We encourage you to follow and share these conversations about transforming libraries with ideas from the frontlines. This issue’s conversation addresses discrimination in scholarly publishing and makes it clear that we have not arrived, wherever we are. —Dustin Fife, series editor
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M etadata is not often seen as creative work. I think many metadata librarians, myself included, struggle to describe our work in a way that is meaningful and understandable to our colleagues. We can quantify it, and numbers are meaningful to administrators and budget-crunchers. But it’s difficult to imbue numbers with passion, significance, or true understanding of what metadata work supports in a library. If my colleagues don’t understand metadata work because it is not visible or obvious, I wanted to find a way to communicate about what I do visually, and I wanted to think differently about my approach to my work as well.
{"title":"Using art to talk and think about metadata: An experiment","authors":"Ann Kardos","doi":"10.5860/crln.84.9.346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.9.346","url":null,"abstract":"M etadata is not often seen as creative work. I think many metadata librarians, myself included, struggle to describe our work in a way that is meaningful and understandable to our colleagues. We can quantify it, and numbers are meaningful to administrators and budget-crunchers. But it’s difficult to imbue numbers with passion, significance, or true understanding of what metadata work supports in a library. If my colleagues don’t understand metadata work because it is not visible or obvious, I wanted to find a way to communicate about what I do visually, and I wanted to think differently about my approach to my work as well.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135953509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of CongressCenter for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
图片阅览室，国会图书馆经济和政策研究中心(CEPR)斯坦福贫困与不平等研究中心
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Within the academic governance structure of many colleges and universities, there exists a campus-wide committee devoted to the library. The responsibilities of these committees vary depending on the shared decision-making culture of the institution, but most are unique because they oversee a single academic unit rather than specific areas of faculty rights and responsibilities or the operations of a large administrative division. An informal sampling of library committees at various institutions reveals that most have an advisory role to the dean of the library, the faculty senate, and/or the provost. Some have membership composed entirely of faculty, while others include academic staff and student leaders. Almost all include senior leadership in ex officio roles including, in many cases, the dean of the library. If managed effectively and leveraged to support the mission of the library, these committees can serve as a valuable link between librarians and disciplinary faculty and between librarians and campus administrators. However, if not managed effectively, the committee can lack transparency, possess no clear direction, and fail to make meaningful progress on issues of substance. With this in mind, below are recommendations for maximizing the effectiveness of your campus-wide library committee.
{"title":"Purposeful engagement: Improving the effectiveness of your campus-wide library committee","authors":"Robert Labaree","doi":"10.5860/crln.84.10.392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.10.392","url":null,"abstract":"Within the academic governance structure of many colleges and universities, there exists a campus-wide committee devoted to the library. The responsibilities of these committees vary depending on the shared decision-making culture of the institution, but most are unique because they oversee a single academic unit rather than specific areas of faculty rights and responsibilities or the operations of a large administrative division. An informal sampling of library committees at various institutions reveals that most have an advisory role to the dean of the library, the faculty senate, and/or the provost. Some have membership composed entirely of faculty, while others include academic staff and student leaders. Almost all include senior leadership in ex officio roles including, in many cases, the dean of the library. If managed effectively and leveraged to support the mission of the library, these committees can serve as a valuable link between librarians and disciplinary faculty and between librarians and campus administrators. However, if not managed effectively, the committee can lack transparency, possess no clear direction, and fail to make meaningful progress on issues of substance. With this in mind, below are recommendations for maximizing the effectiveness of your campus-wide library committee.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134890378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I n 2019, three faculty—a psychology professor and two faculty librarians—at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP), collaborated on an open pedagogical project to provide a hands-on experience for undergraduates taking a psychology course, Program Evaluation (PSY 4430/A). 1 Taught by Michael Giang from CPP’s Psychology department, the Program Evaluation course was designed not only to teach students about research designs, methods, analysis, assessment, and communication strategies to improve social and organizational issues, but also to help build the students’ résumés with real-life experiences of collaborating with professionals across campus to improve current programs. The two of us mentored and worked with Giang’s student teams that were tasked to evaluate the library’s APA citation workshop.
{"title":"Advancing professional skills in undergraduate students: Faculty-student mentorship","authors":"Jennifer Bidwell, Brinna Pam Anan","doi":"10.5860/crln.84.9.322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.9.322","url":null,"abstract":"I n 2019, three faculty—a psychology professor and two faculty librarians—at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP), collaborated on an open pedagogical project to provide a hands-on experience for undergraduates taking a psychology course, Program Evaluation (PSY 4430/A). 1 Taught by Michael Giang from CPP’s Psychology department, the Program Evaluation course was designed not only to teach students about research designs, methods, analysis, assessment, and communication strategies to improve social and organizational issues, but also to help build the students’ résumés with real-life experiences of collaborating with professionals across campus to improve current programs. The two of us mentored and worked with Giang’s student teams that were tasked to evaluate the library’s APA citation workshop.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135953497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rosalind Tedford, Joy Gambill, Amanda Kaufman, Elizabeth Ellis
The Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Library at Wake Forest University (WFU) has been teaching credit-bearing information literacy (IL) courses since the spring of 2003. What started as a single section of a one-credit course titled LIB100: Accessing Information in the 21st Century has since grown into a much larger and consistently successful elective, credit-bearing program. In the 2021–2022 academic year, we taught 43 sections of credit-bearing courses that enrolled a total of 606 students. Over the past two decades, we have renamed LIB100 to Academic Research and Information Issues and added more than a dozen special topics and discipline-specific credit courses to our regular repertoire. At conferences and in other professional interactions, we are often asked to share more about how we’ve managed to sustain a robust, elective credit-bearing program. As our library celebrates our 20th anniversary of teaching credit courses, we decided to take the opportunity to reflect on our program and share some of our takeaways, best practices, and next steps.
{"title":"20 years of credit-bearing courses: Reflections, takeaways, and next steps","authors":"Rosalind Tedford, Joy Gambill, Amanda Kaufman, Elizabeth Ellis","doi":"10.5860/crln.84.10.369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.10.369","url":null,"abstract":"The Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Library at Wake Forest University (WFU) has been teaching credit-bearing information literacy (IL) courses since the spring of 2003. What started as a single section of a one-credit course titled LIB100: Accessing Information in the 21st Century has since grown into a much larger and consistently successful elective, credit-bearing program. In the 2021–2022 academic year, we taught 43 sections of credit-bearing courses that enrolled a total of 606 students. Over the past two decades, we have renamed LIB100 to Academic Research and Information Issues and added more than a dozen special topics and discipline-specific credit courses to our regular repertoire. At conferences and in other professional interactions, we are often asked to share more about how we’ve managed to sustain a robust, elective credit-bearing program. As our library celebrates our 20th anniversary of teaching credit courses, we decided to take the opportunity to reflect on our program and share some of our takeaways, best practices, and next steps.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134890387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vanderbilt University launches Digital Lab DOAJ, Lyrasis collaborate to facilitate open access support Penn State recognizes Open Champions PALNI recognizes affordable learning champions with Open Educator Award ACRL publishes Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge GPO digitizes Congressional Directories New from ACRL—Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library Project MUSE expands availability of Latin American university press books
{"title":"News from the Field","authors":"David Free","doi":"10.5860/crln.84.10.359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.10.359","url":null,"abstract":"Vanderbilt University launches Digital Lab DOAJ, Lyrasis collaborate to facilitate open access support Penn State recognizes Open Champions PALNI recognizes affordable learning champions with Open Educator Award ACRL publishes Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge GPO digitizes Congressional Directories New from ACRL—Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library Project MUSE expands availability of Latin American university press books","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134889831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S t. John Fisher University is the home of Lavery Library, the only library on the campus of a small doctoral-granting institution in Rochester, New York. Over the past couple of years, the three authors have formed a coalition for updating LibGuides in a participatory way. During the summer of 2022, we led a project to reorganize our library’s LibGuides homepage, the index of our guides.
{"title":"Jumpstart: Project management techniques to finally finish a LibGuides update","authors":"Ben Hockenberry, Mia Breitkopf, Christina Hillman","doi":"10.5860/crln.84.9.328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.9.328","url":null,"abstract":"S t. John Fisher University is the home of Lavery Library, the only library on the campus of a small doctoral-granting institution in Rochester, New York. Over the past couple of years, the three authors have formed a coalition for updating LibGuides in a participatory way. During the summer of 2022, we led a project to reorganize our library’s LibGuides homepage, the index of our guides.","PeriodicalId":55882,"journal":{"name":"College and Research Libraries News","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135953218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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