Last month I had the opportunity to travel to Denver, Colorado through Sinclair for a conference. Unlike my typical professional development, however, it wasn’t a library conference. Instead, it was the NACE Conference, for the National Association of Colleges and Employers. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think I even knew what NACE was about […]
Generative AI
Why OER Textbooks Are Important (and How AI Can Help Create Them)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are free for anyone to use. We most often are referring to textbooks, but they can also be videos, tests, software, or even full courses. Crucially, they are not copyrighted like most publications but instead are released under a license (most often Creative Commons) that allows others […]
Prompt Engineers at the Library: Should Librarians Teach AI Searching?
Over the past year and a half as the capabilities of ChatGPT have thrust artificial intelligence to the forefront of public discourse, new sets of skills have emerged. It’s become increasingly clear that although ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models (LLMs) can do amazing, paradigm-shifting things, the specific prompts that you type in have a […]
How AI Will Affect Web Search, Content Quality, and Authority
I recently wrote an article about the effects of ChatGPT on libraries and librarians and I wanted to expand on some of the points relating to information seeking and web search. We are truly at a watershed moment for information literacy that has the potential to be just as revolutionary as when Google first blazed […]
How AI Tools Like ChatGPT Will Affect Libraries and Librarians
ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that has been getting endless buzz online due to its potential not only to improve our lives but also to disrupt established practices and institutions. One such example is its ability to almost instantly generate well-written essays on just about any topic, which is forcing a radical […]