This past year, Burns Library hosted a new instruction initiative for First-Year Writing classes. 2024–2025 Outreach & Instruction Fellow Maggie Erwin shares some reflections on this pilot program. This post, written by Maggie Erwin, 2024–2025 Outreach & Instruction Fellow, was…
Among the flurry of executive orders signed by President Trump, you might easily have missed EO 14238. Also known as “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” it targeted IMLS and six other small independent agencies for elimination “to the…
Have you started using generative AI and are now wondering when and how to credit the tool in your writing? You are in luck! Since next week is National Library Week, we thought that for this issue of our GenAI@Libraries…
We have seen how Generative AI can be a useful tool. However, it comes with several ethical and legal concerns that need to be considered when using it. Questions of copyright and creator’s rights, issues of bias in the model,…
Approaching the question of AI in relation to teaching information literacy to students raises a few questions. Four of these are detailed below, but weaving through them all is the question of when AI can help build robust research skills…