Making science librarianship wonderful
“We all know that when people don’t know something, the 1st person they ask is a friend …, so everyone should be friends with a librarian” – J. West
Recent Blog Posts by Annie
AI in classrooms
The assignment for 300 level chemistry students was: UCSD sources:
Reacting to the Past librarian roles
The amazing Martha Attridge Bufton showed me how and has a librarian role for Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman. I made librarian roles for these short RTTP games. London 1854: Cholera Acid Rain in Europe, 1979-1989 The librarian roles have...
Undergraduate research award winners from 2023 featured in PSC
Come see the amazing work done by our award winning students in PSC:
AI assisted tools_April 2024
If you are reading this after 2024 and it hasn't been updated, assume everything has changed. A slide deck "Exploring Emerging Generative AI Tools" from the wonderful librarians a Oregon State University has a great summary of some of the AI tools available for...
revised advice for citing AI and LLM
APA has advice now: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt Primary difference is to decide if you (the writer) can retrieve the content or not? If you can retrieve the content, cite it as a conversation with your AI of choice and this should look different...
Teaching journal articles in the classroom
Undergraduate strategy 1: Intro and how-to in gen chem - Video, slides and canvas quiz questions about reading journal articles in Chemistry class a: Starts with an intro to what a scholarly article is (and isn't), continues with a Canvas activity asking students MC...