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Happy Holidays.
Its feels good this time of year as you walk before the snow has fallen. Our tree is up and lights are decked about the halls like luminary cordons guiding gift givers to the magnificence of the tree. i simply love this time of year. The library will be closing for the winter break but
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Pitfalls of AI use : Offers
Hello Friend or colleague, One of the things I have been pursuing is navigating the pitfalls of AI in the information Science field. Yes, it can visualize data, such as customer inhouse and circulation statistics, but it can all clean up an email to those pricklier vocabulary and grammar nerds your messages are going to
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October check in
hello colleagues and or friends, and or newcomers. The academic library is good. I’ve been working on not losing confidence in my presentation skills as i walk through and work on teaching research instruction. In general, there has been classes before where i’ve talked and taught on databases, various Citation styles, Peer-Review, and our software
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I LAUNCHed into Networking
Hello friends, This week was pretty eventful as I traveled to another city to attend a conference on leadership presented by the Texas Library Association. There were a variety of topics that were covered to develop early career librarians into leaders and promote academic excellence. Belonging and Access This is the new terminology to incorporate
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Summer Check in
Hello friend,summer has been a time for rest and learning. The library is currently in the next phase of remodeling and we are excited to see it’s progress closer to the fall semester. I am headed to a Library Conference for Early Career Librarians soon and should have some thoughts written down about it this
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Can it pass my class for me?
Hello friends,Teams have been formed and it seems the near future is not so near and more imminent than ever before. We are working on a variety of AI projects to increase the convenience for students in our academic library. Upgrade pending. Typically when think of AI, of the glaring examples of the headline busters,
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The Ishmael of the Stacks
Hello reader. You find me at today understanding my place as a black information professional. This space typically sees a homogenous majority. Most times I have been at odds philosophically with this group by way of my identity. I clamor to make space for myself, but also hold space for those who are at the
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Conference Call? Or Conference Proceedings.
Hello Colleague, I’m back from an intense few days at the ACRL 2025 Conference in Minneapolis Minnesota. If you didn’t know, ACRL stands for Association of College and Research Libraries and it is a division of the ALA (American Library Association). While there I made friends, learned a fair bit about the state of librarianship
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Do I look like I know what a Jpeg is? I just want a Picture of a gosh darn hot dog.
Hello friend,I’m writing to you as of now from the reference desk in the shadow of my first Library instruction class. I was prepared! I had my druthers and was basking in the full responsibility of being learned enough to impart wisdom into others. I practiced with my databases, navigating and clicking, navigating and clicking,
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Getting the most from BHM
Hello friend/colleague.I have been away learning more about history during the month of February 2025 (although I still use Microsoft to spell check how to write the name of the month :^). It has been a time of shadows of the past and sunrises of tomorrow. I’ll have more writing coming soon but as of
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