February 2024 – Page 2

"A Descriptive Analysis of AI Guides in Academic Libraries"

The purpose of this work is to do an exploratory descriptive analysis of topics included in Artificial Intelligence (AI) electronic library guides of academic libraries. AI library guides from members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are chosen for selection. Of the 48 libraries randomly selected, 25 have AI guides. Data collected was subject to a content analysis process which included the use of terms co-occurrence using the VOSviewer software. The results show three clusters of terms, which are complemented with the discussion of materials found in the guides.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/8033/

"Using CHATGPT-Generated Essays in Library Instruction"

This case study details a library instruction activity developed by a team of academic librarians, which intended to leverage experiential learning to make students and faculty aware of the function, capabilities, and limitations of text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The activity is described, with its development connected to key instructional theories and frameworks.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102863

Network and Systems Administrator at University of South Carolina

Reporting to the Director of Library and Information Technology (LIT), the Network and Systems Administrator is responsible for applying technology and designing system architectures to align with the organizational strategic business objectives of the University Libraries (UL). This includes leveraging complex cloud-based services to address library system needs and demands. Areas of focus include technical operations, processes, and projects to install and support progressive computing, storage, network, and cloud platforms. In collaboration and consultation with LIT peers, Division of Information Technology (DoIT) staff, and with vendor representatives, this position researches system design, capabilities, limitations, and performance requirements.

https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/164677

Associate Director for Technology Services and Support at The Ohio State University

The Associate Director, Technology Services & Support, resides in the Technology & Digital Programs Division of University Libraries, the division that provides and supports digital library services, web applications, discovery services, endpoint management, information security and privacy, digitization and digital preservation, and technical infrastructure and reports to the Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Programs. The Associate Director collaboratively and consultatively leads the planning, development, and operation of Libraries client computing infrastructure resources and services, including the IT Service Desk. This role provides direction to a department of professional staff and student workers and oversees endpoint management, printing, shares, and other aspects of support for over 650 user endpoints and approximately 25 servers.

http://tinyurl.com/yv559msy

Department Head for Open Scholarship at Clemson University

The Open Scholarship Department includes services such as open educational resources, scholarly communications, experiential learning, research data services, and digital humanities/scholarship. The department also houses two learning spaces: Adobe Studio & Makerspace and the Scholars’ Lab. The department head will play an active and key role in continuing and expanding the Libraries’ research and experiential learning services that will further support Clemson’s strategic priorities. The Department Head of Open Scholarship (OS) will be responsible for planning, implementing, and managing a newly created open scholarship department that provides support for digital scholarship, digital literacy, data literacy, digital preservation, faculty research, Open Access initiatives and advocacy, and scholarly communications.

http://tinyurl.com/92ynd6dx

University Libraries Digitization Specialist at The University of Alabama

Performs digitization using specialized imaging equipment to produce FADGI compliant digital surrogates. Utilizes archival content standards and metadata schemas to generate original descriptive metadata for digital content, including foreign language materials, and performs data normalization for batch processing. . . . Utilizes automated processes and server-side scripting to manipulate and store high volumes of batch content throughout the digital asset management lifecycle.

http://tinyurl.com/2tycbb96

Generative AI News

Adobe Acrobat Adds Generative AI to "Easily Chat With Documents"

ChatGPT Spat Out Gibberish for Many Users Overnight before OpenAI Fixed It

Exploring ChatGPT for Next-Generation Information Retrieval: Opportunities and Challenges

Generative AI’s Environmental Costs Are Soaring — And Mostly Secret

Google Releases "Open" AI Models after Meta

Generative AI Market Share Reach USD 126.5 Billion by 2031, Impacting Factors That Could Escalate Market’s Rapid Growth

Grammarly and Harris Poll Find Using Generative AI for Communication Could Save Up to $1.6 Trillion Annually in U.S. Productivity

One Month with Microsoft’s AI Vision of the Future: Copilot Pro

OpenAI Can’t Register "GPT" as a Trademark — Yet

Top 20 Generative AI Tools & Applications in 2024

What the EU’s Tough AI Law Means for Research and ChatGPT

Why the New York Times Might Win Its Copyright Lawsuit against OpenAI

User Interface Designer-Libraries & Museums at University of Texas at San Antonio

Collaborates in a team environment to design, produce and implement assigned projects. Model and design user interface prototypes based on collected user requirements, test cases, and project objectives.

Design high-level flow diagrams and graphic user interface (GUI) form charts for use in GUI specifications and architectures.

Creates various design deliverables including low and high-fidelity comps, design specs, and prototypes.

http://tinyurl.com/2sa6euka

"How Persistent Identifiers Work Together in the Research Ecosystem"

Each PID requires metadata, or information about the person, thing or organization that the identifier is identifying, and different PIDs can be included in the metadata of other PIDs:

ORCID iDs can be included in DOI metadata to identify the people involved in the existence of the object that the DOI is identifying.

DOIs can be included in an ORCID record to identify the works that a person has produced, or the funding that a person has received.

ROR IDs can be included in ORCID records to identify the organizations that an individual is affiliated with.

ROR IDs can be included in DOI metadata to identify the organizations that are involved in the existence of the object that the DOI is identifying.

http://tinyurl.com/3bkx6ytv

Digital Archivist at Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Boston)

Collaborates with Document Management leadership on the creation of a robust digital archives program that will successfully capture, preserve, and make accessible MBTA records and materials of enduring value.

Manages digital archives assistants and/or student workers and interns.

Serves as the subject matter expert on digital archives, born-digital and digitized materials, and digital preservation trends in support of MBTA mission and vision.

Helps to ensure the accessibility of the digital resources of the Authority by championing the topic of digital preservation.

http://tinyurl.com/2fkt5nj5

"Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI"

In October, my institution was granted access to the Beta version of ScopusAI. I have tested it using a concept connected to my PhD dissertation in physics, an "electromagnon". In this post, I want to share my experience and use it to illustrate the many dimensions the design and assessment of such tools need to consider. . . .

[The author provides an extensive description and analysis of the performed tests as well as their broader implications.]

And if AI is only as good as its underlying data, let’s not forget who owns the scholarly data and regulates access to it. Big scholarly publishers have long been using content as a resource to capitalize on. AI tools amplify existing imbalances in access to scholarly text: if a publisher owns the exclusive right to a text, they can train their own AI on it and make this content unavailable to competing AI projects, profiting from the copyright yet again. Currently, most AI research assistants are grounded with abstracts, but the real value is contained in the full text of articles, and accessing them remains very difficult.

Digital Initiatives Librarian at Butler University

The Digital Initiatives Librarian will provide expertise to the Libraries on evolving digital asset management and digital preservation best practices and will work collaboratively with library colleagues and others to help create and sustain digital collections, policies, and workflows. . . . The person in this position will oversee the digitization of materials in a variety of formats; the planning and execution of new digital collections and exhibits; and the maintenance and growth of existing digital projects.

http://tinyurl.com/3nmt2p2d

"Citation Amnesia: NLP and Other Academic Fields Are in a Citation Age Recession"

This study examines the tendency to cite older work across 20 fields of study over 43 years (1980–2023). . . . Our analysis, based on a dataset of approximately 240 million papers, reveals a broader scientific trend: many fields have markedly declined in citing older works (e.g., psychology, computer science). . . . Our results suggest that citing more recent works is not directly driven by the growth in publication rates. . . even when controlling for an increase in the volume of papers. Our findings raise questions about the scientific community’s engagement with past literature, particularly for NLP, and the potential consequences of neglecting older but relevant research.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12046

Digital Archivist at Alfred University

The Digital Archivist will be responsible for implementing a robust and sustainable digital preservation and digital archiving program that covers born-digital and digitized holdings; will facilitate appraisal, acquisition, and transfer of born-digital materials to the Archives; will work closely with the University Archivist and relevant librarians to develop and implement university-wide policies, procedures, and workflows for processing and preserving digital collections; and will be responsible for the management and creation of born-digital and hybrid collections.

http://tinyurl.com/43v2w69h

"Thinking Outside the Black Box: Insights from a Digital Exhibition in the Humanities"

One of the main goals of Open Science is to make research more reproducible. There is no consensus, however, on what exactly "reproducibility" is, as opposed for example to "replicability", and how it applies to different research fields. After a short review of the literature on reproducibility/replicability with a focus on the humanities, we describe how the creation of the digital twin of the temporary exhibition "The Other Renaissance" has been documented throughout, with different methods, but with constant attention to research transparency, openness and accountability. A careful documentation of the study design, data collection and analysis techniques helps reflect and make all possible influencing factors explicit, and is a fundamental tool for reliability and rigour and for opening the "black box" of research.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12000

Web Designer and Producer at Brown University

The Web Designer and Producer works to solve complex communications, user experience and technology challenges across the Brown University Library’s web presence. The Web Designer and Producer partners with colleagues across the library to assess goals and devise strategies designed to achieve the Library’s web communication objectives. The Web Designer and Producer serve as the primary front end web developer for a variety of web work.

http://tinyurl.com/ypde3nww

"Establishing a Library as an Open Science Partner for Economic Research through Impact-Oriented Public Relations Work"

The article describes how ZBW — Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is working to strengthen its perception as a competent partner and promoter of Open Science for its target group of economic researchers. This article describes the challenges, goals and opportunities of impact-oriented communication for libraries using the example of the ZBW. The article describes the path from the challenges and goals of the concrete communication activities and the evaluation of the impact-oriented communication work.

https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.15060

Librarian (Systems) at Department of the Navy (in Annapolis)

You will lead programming for all aspects of the Library’s web/CMS environment by planning and leading the execution of design initiatives

You will provide system support for all Library-specific systems and software products; assist with the life cycle management of Library-use hardware and software

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/771222500

"Will Traffic from Search Engines Fall 25% by 2026?"

Will traffic from search engines to your website drop 25% by 2026 as a result of the rise of generative AI answer engines? That’s what Gartner, a technological research and consulting firm, is predicting. . . . Gartner previously predicted that "organic search traffic will decrease by 50% or more [by 2028] as consumers embrace generative AI-powered search."

http://tinyurl.com/mtxvt8kj

Library User Experience Web Developer at Western Carolina University (3 Year Term)

We are seeking a collaborative, passionate, and innovative candidate to provide leadership in advancing digital user experience projects and web services administration that will enhance and improve the library’s digital presence. This person provides cross-functional, collaborative leadership for the design, development, implementation, documentation, establishment of policies, assessment, and maintenance of user interfaces in support of all departments of the library. T

https://jobs.wcu.edu/postings/26309

"Can ChatGPT Be Used to Predict Citation Counts, Readership, and Social Media Interaction? An Exploration among 2222 Scientific Abstracts"

This study explores the potential of ChatGPT, a large language model, in scientometrics by assessing its ability to predict citation counts, Mendeley readers, and social media engagement. In this study, 2222 abstracts from PLOS ONE articles published during the initial months of 2022 were analyzed using ChatGPT-4, which used a set of 60 criteria to assess each abstract. Using a principal component analysis, three components were identified: Quality and Reliability, Accessibility and Understandability, and Novelty and Engagement. The Accessibility and Understandability of the abstracts correlated with higher Mendeley readership, while Novelty and Engagement and Accessibility and Understandability were linked to citation counts (Dimensions, Scopus, Google Scholar) and social media attention. Quality and Reliability showed minimal correlation with citation and altmetrics outcomes. Finally, it was found that the predictive correlations of ChatGPT-based assessments surpassed traditional readability metrics. The findings highlight the potential of large language models in scientometrics and possibly pave the way for AI-assisted peer review.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-04939-y

Copyright Specialist at Penn State

Working within the University Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright, the Copyright Specialist assists Libraries patrons, including faculty, staff, and students, with copyright and scholarly communications matters and serves as a resource on these topics for Libraries departments and projects. This includes providing copyright and scholarly communications reference services through email and Zoom consultations; teaching workshops on these topics; and creating and maintaining FAQs and other relevant informational materials.

http://tinyurl.com/2s46pe84

"Platformisation of Science: Conceptual Foundations"

The digital platforms we are dealing with in this article are auxiliary tools that do not produce anything themselves but provide an infrastructure for service providers and users to meet. They have potentially unlimited scaling potential and have become the central places of exchange. In academia, we can also observe that research and its communication become more digital and that digital services are aiming to become platforms. In this article we explore the concept of digital platforms and their potential impact on academic research, firstly addressing the question: To what extent can digital platforms be understood as a specific type of research infrastructure? We draw from recent literature on platforms and platformisation from different streams of scholarship and relate them to the science studies concept of research infrastructures, to eventually arrive at a framework for science platforms. Secondly, we aim to assess how science platforms may affect scholarly practice. Thirdly, we aim to assess to what extent science is platformised and how this interferes with scientific understandings of quality and autonomy. At the end of this article, we argue that the potential benefits of platform infrastructure for academic pursuits cannot be ignored, but the commercialization of the infrastructure for scholarly communication is a cause for concern. Ultimately, a nuanced and well-informed perspective on the impact of platformisation on academia is necessary to ensure that the academic community can maximize the benefits of digital infrastructures while mitigating negative consequences.

http://dx.doi.org/10.53377/lq.16693

Data Technologist at Montana State University

The Montana State University Library’s Data Technologist works as an active member of a service-oriented team that advances researcher visibility, integrates artificial intelligence in teaching and research, and leads data science initiatives. This 12-month faculty position works to integrate MSU Library’s research software applications and services into the classroom to foster new forms of scholarship, create new insights through data analysis, and provide users with enhanced access to information.

http://tinyurl.com/v8v8dcep

"Christina H. Gola Named Interim Dean of University of Houston Libraries"

University of Houston (UH) has appointed Christina H. Gola interim dean of UH Libraries. . . . Prior to this appointment, Gola served as the associate dean for Organizational Development, Learning, and Talent (ODLT). She has worked with UH Libraries for 15 years and was promoted to full librarian in 2021. Gola is leading the “Reimagined Libraries” endeavor, which focuses on enhancing spaces and leveraging campus partnerships for the benefit of students and scholars.

http://tinyurl.com/m33w5x6v