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GenAI@BC Libraries: GenAI & Citation

by Jen MoranPosted onMarch 31, 2025April 7, 2025
A very serious bald eagle sits with talons (at the end of his wings) on a laptop keyboard, surrounded by books and notes; one book is titled "AI", and in the background a flowchart resembling a molecular structure diagram, also labeled "AI" floats in a grey cloud.

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…

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GenAI @BC Libraries: Ethical & Legal Issues

by Elliott HibblerPosted onMarch 12, 2025June 3, 2025
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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,…

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GenAI@BCLibraries: Pedagogy & Information Literacy

by Leea StroiaPosted onMarch 7, 2025March 19, 2025
Three people are sitting at a table strewn with notebooks and photocopied articles in front of a crowded bookshelf. All three are intently focused on one page.

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…

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GenAI@BC Libraries: Added Value

by Steve RungePosted onFebruary 26, 2025March 19, 2025
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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.…

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GenAI@BC Libraries: The Basics

by Steve RungePosted onFebruary 10, 2025March 19, 2025
A neo-gothic building with a square tower and many high windows stands in the middle distance across a snow covered lawn, framed by snow-covered branches in the foreground. It all looks picture-postcard perfect.

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…

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