First Wednesday 2025

Alma Updates and GitLab Pipelines

Warpwire Recording

Update on Alma Phase 2

Tom Crichlow

We will share an overview of what work is under way as Phase 2 of the Alma Implementation. We will also share information about our upcoming Alma drop-in Office Hours.

No Middleman Needed: Self-Service Powered by GitLab Pipelines

Derrek Croney, Zeke Graves, Julie Brannon

Join us for an introduction to GitLab pipelines! We'll demo how they work and explore how Alma invoice integrations are using GitLab pipelines to enable self-service for staff in Collections Services.

Generative AI Topics

Warpwire Recording

Zoom Chat

Making AI Generative for Higher Education: Interview Findings Preview (Ithaka S+R)

Linda Daniel and John Little

This presentation previews findings from 246 interviews across higher education institutions, including Duke University, regarding generative AI (GAI), revealing widespread experimentation with GAI in both teaching and research, alongside concerns about long-term integration, academic integrity, and ethical use. While faculty and students explore GAI's potential, they express a need for institutional support, discipline-specific training, and guidance on navigating the evolving landscape of AI tools and their impact on learning and research practices.

Slides

Exploring GenAI Perceptions & Information Seeking Behaviors Among Students

Annie Kiele Brown

The rapid advancement of generative AI systems, specifically Large Language Models (LLM), has transformed the information landscape and its associated information retrieval (IR) behaviors, presenting new challenges and opportunities for students across education levels. In this presentation we will review the nuances of university students' perceptions, dispositions, and information-seeking (ISg) behaviors when using generative AI, and the perceived versus factual accuracy of information obtained using IR tools such as Google and ChatGPT

Slides

ChatGPT and Lightning Talks

Warpwire recording

Presentation: Field Notes on ChatGPT + Text Analysis

Will Shaw

I'd like to share some reflections about what happens when researchers invite generative AI into digital humanities scholarship. I've been working with a Bass Connections group that has sought to use ChatGPT in a number of text analysis workflows, and we've had successes and challenges that I think are worth sharing with colleagues.

Lightning Talks:

• Advanced Window Management with Fancy Zones, Vaughn Stewart

• Search sites directly from your browser's search bar with DuckDuckGo "Bangs", Alex Konecky

• Duke Amazon Browser Extension for Chrome, Thomas Crichlow

• Grouping bookmarks by folder on your web browser toolbar, Thomas Crichlow

EBSCO Interface and CDVS Assessment

EBSCO Interface Update at Duke

Zhaneille Green and Abigail Wickes

After many, many years, the EBSCOhost interface is updating! Duke is implementing the new EBSCO interface May 22. Come learn more about new features and what to expect.

What are we trying to do?  Adventures in assessment!

Joel Herndon

Over the last year, CDVS (Center for Data and Visualization Sciences) has worked on a project designed to refine how it tracks the efforts of the center in order to document, assess, and share our work within and outside the Libraries. This talk explores the surprisingly humorous and often poignant effort to answer questions such as: "what are we doing anyway?" "why would I track that?" to powerful assertions of "well, whether or not they want to know that-- I most certainly do!" We'll share our voyage so far with the hope of encouraging others to explore the power and pitfalls of program assessment.