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Knowledge and Understanding in a Black Box World

ACRL recently published an updated version of their AI Competencies for Library Workers, a set of standards for library workers which covers areas including ethical concerns, use of AI, and evaluating AI outputs. This is a really interesting document to explore and the document itself, and the discussion surrounding it, give insights into the diverse…

Information, Communication, and Ambience

I was browsing through the archive of Simon Rosenberg’s excellent substack and came across a fascinating interview he did with Nathan Heller, a staff writer at the New Yorker. Heller wrote a piece last fall titled “Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information.” I touched upon related topics in my recent post on Vibe Research,…

Evaluating AI

This post continues a small series I’m doing on the AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers. Continuing my contrary tradition of going out of order, we’ll be looking at competency area 3 in this post: Analysis and Evaluation. Evaluating Output and Evaluating Tools Being a librarian, when I first read “Analysis and Evaluation” I immediately…