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…
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…
Second in a blog series by members of the BC Libraries GenAI Task Force It’s becoming clearer that generative AI doesn’t add value universally; it adds value in limited applications and contexts, using particular AI tools adapted to particular circumstances.…
The Task Force As we know too well by now, developments in GenAI are so fast that today’s pronouncements can be stale by the end of the week. Librarians are by nature thorough and deliberative, so how do we respond…
By 2023 Lauren Wilwerding had encountered enough students in her classes enjoying assigned reading more than they expected that she asked herself a question: Why do people read? So she made it into the subject of a Literature Core course…