ALISS showcase: AI and our profession – works in progress
July 11th 2024
July 11th 2024
How are information specialists responding to and engaging with AI. What is our role and what can we do. This ALISS showcase presented some thoughts, reactions and ongoing projects which we hope you will find informative, educational and inspiring
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Exploring our professional response to AI
Andrew Cox Senior lecturer, University of Sheffield
This interactive session (created using https://www.wooclap.com/) discussed the nature of AI and how it impacted information professional work. The delegates were encouraged to reflect on their viewpoints and the opportunities and challenges AI may offer to the profession. The outcomes can be read in this document.
Humans Are Still Needed: Developing Newcastle University’s Approach to AI Literacy
Emily Dott
In this presentation, Emily shared how Newcastle University’s Library and Learning and Teaching Development Service (LTDS) collaborated to deliver an institutional response to AI. It was based on and extended this presentation given at the LILAC conference in 2024
The presentation described the AI journey Newcastle University has been on from immediate principles-led response in early 2023 to an evolving approach to embracing AI with input and alignment to Russel Group guidelines. It discussed how equal emphasis was placed on the development of AI Literacy (AIL) competencies for staff and students, recognising the importance for academics’ personal development and practice and their vital role in student IL. Future challenges and developments were also covered.
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Developing an online resource to support the use of AI for student learning and research
Paula Funnell, Faculty Liaison Librarian, Medicine & Dentistry
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London Library Services, together with the Technology Enhanced Learning Team, and educators and students from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, co-created an online resource on AI for Student Learning and Research, which was launched at the beginning of the 2023-4 academic year.
This presentation outlined how the resource was developed, collaboratively with students, and gave an overview of the content and structure. There will also be an opportunity to try out some of the activities.
Understanding the reach and use of AI within higher education through a student-led research project at Teesside UniversityFrederick Milton & Patricia Crosier (Teesside University)
As a response and to contribute to the growing canon of AI knowledge, a cross-departmental team of librarians and academics at Teesside University developed a 20-hour 12-week research project for students on a programme to explore the reach of AI and students use of AI, with particular focus via a micro-study at our own institution, through a student-led synthesis of secondary literature and primary data gathering.
As a response and to contribute to the growing canon of AI knowledge, a cross-departmental team of librarians and academics at Teesside University developed a 20-hour 12-week research project for students on a programme to explore the reach of AI and students use of AI, with particular focus via a micro-study at our own institution, through a student-led synthesis of secondary literature and primary data gathering.
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