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

AI and you workshop for students -ideas, outline

Lesson plan to come: AI and you: how to use AI in your coursework Topics to cover could include: Ethical considerations – do you want to use AI at all (environmental impacts, privacy concerns, working conditions of trainers, etc.)  - privacy = UO’s version of copilot...

Portland Convention Center options for MLA 2024

Close to the convention center: Spirit of 77 - [although everyone should try to go to The Sports Bra, if they can!] Nong’s on SE Ankeny with outdoor seating: chicken/rice, ramen, and sandwiches. All veggie friendly. A bar that is near and dear to my family, a 15...

AI in classrooms

The assignment for 300 level chemistry students included extra credit using AI. See example. Emerging AI in scholarly writing from Oregon State librarians in early 2024 UCSD sources from Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D. Google doc links for: * a rubric asking helpful...

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...

prompts in AI for finding themes from open ended answers

used August 2023 in ChatGPT 4.0 (your milage may vary!): prompt: you are an academic librarian at a public research university look for themes in the comments I will paste when you tell me to begin. each comment is numbered consecutively. consider the different themes...

command prompts that have worked

This is useful: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-for-prompt-engineering-with-openai-api and some good prompts here as well - both her blog and a video. [Also about using Obsidian and zotero, which I'm going to have to tackle soon] some...

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AI and you workshop for students -ideas, outline

Lesson plan to come: AI and you: how to use AI in your coursework Topics to cover could include: Ethical considerations – do you want to use AI at all (environmental impacts, privacy concerns, working conditions of trainers, etc.)  - privacy = UO’s version of copilot...

Portland Convention Center options for MLA 2024

Close to the convention center: Spirit of 77 - [although everyone should try to go to The Sports Bra, if they can!] Nong’s on SE Ankeny with outdoor seating: chicken/rice, ramen, and sandwiches. All veggie friendly. A bar that is near and dear to my family, a 15...

AI in classrooms

The assignment for 300 level chemistry students included extra credit using AI. See example. Emerging AI in scholarly writing from Oregon State librarians in early 2024 UCSD sources from Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D. Google doc links for: * a rubric asking helpful...

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...

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...

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