First Wednesday 2024
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January | Cancelled | |||
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February 7 | Lightning Talks | Upgrading ILL Request Forms Michael Edwards and Thomas Crichlow Michael and Thomas will share an overview of the recent upgrade to ILLiad, the system DUL uses for InterLibrary Loan requests. | Slides | |
Digitizing Ivory Anatomical Manikins Rachel Ingold Digitization of Duke’s ivory anatomical manikins (in the History of Medicine Collections) began in the fall of 2017. A team effort has led to the progression of this project, allowing digital scans to be shared and 3D models to be printed. | Slides | |||
'Go' Have Fun Programming Derrek Croney Derrek will show how he's become acquainted with the Go language and how it fits within the DST Programmatic Universe. | Slides | |||
Upgrading DukeSpace in the 2020s Will Sexton Will Sexton will report on the upgrade of DSpace to 7.x and the status of the DukeSpace repository. | Slides | |||
(Re)Introducing Our Library's Chat Widget Zeke Graves Zeke will present a brief overview of the service, the functionality of the widget, and what's changed. | Slides | |||
March 6 | Lightning talks about AI | Warpwire Recording | What they’re saying about AI Thomas Crichlow Tom offers highlights and examples he's recently read about AI and how it may relate to our work at the Libraries. | Slides |
Co-Pilot Chatbot at Duke Vaughn Stewart Vaughn provides an introduction to an AI chat bot that Duke has approved for use with your Duke credentials. He demonstrates a few different functions that may be useful to Library staff. | Slides | |||
This AI-n’t So Bad: Using AI Tools in Software Development Sean Aery Modern software development requires developers to be constantly learning and adapting to new technologies. Generative AI is relatively new, but it is already having a profound impact on the work that developers do. In this talk, Sean discusses how over the past year, AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot have become essential utilities in my everyday toolkit. He demonstrates real-world examples of how these tools have helped to understand, write, troubleshoot, fix, test, and document code. He also reflects on areas where these tools fall short. | Slides | |||
Addressing the AI Elephant in the Room: Incorporating Generative AI into Library Teaching Hannah Rozear From research consultations to first-year writing classes, generative AI tools have led to lively discussions in library instruction. In this talk, Hannah shares her journey of self-learning with generative AI and ideas for talking to students about the benefits and drawbacks of using it for information-gathering. | Slides | |||
April 3 | Cancelled | |||
May 1 | DUL Updates | Warpwire Recording | Upcoming changes to discovery systems – changes patrons will encounter when DUL launches Alma Members of the Alma Discovery Working Group Members of the Alma Discovery Working Group will highlight upcoming changes that patrons will see when viewing items in the Books & Media Catalog or searching for Online Journal Titles after we transition from Aleph to Alma. | Slides |
Designing and documenting a service philosophy for AUXS Angela Zoss The Assessment & User Experience Strategy department expanded in the summer of 2022, bringing together staff doing work across various areas like assessment, user experience research and design, software development, DevOps engineering, and project management. One commonality across all AUXS staff is that we work closely with other library staff members, including providing consultations, partnering on projects, and leading teams and committees. We also all strive to produce a stellar user experience for our patrons. Over the course of about six months last year, AUXS worked together to articulate a new service philosophy, or a statement about what we're trying to achieve and how we go about prioritizing and accomplishing our work. In this presentation, I'll share a bit more about the services AUXS offers to the Duke Libraries community, and I'll go over the basic tenets of our new service philosophy. We hope this offers increased transparency around the work we do and helps us better prioritize work moving forward. | Slides | |||
Upcoming changes to Databases AZ page Thomas Crichlow Thomas Crichlow will highlight changes to the Databases AZ page that will be released on Monday, May 6. | Slides | |||
June 5 | E-Resource Access and Troubleshooting FAQs and Alma Integrations Spotlight | Warpwire Recording | E-Resource Access and Troubleshooting FAQs Presented by Amelia Rodarte, Electronic Resources Management Specialist and Zhaneille Green, E-Access Librarian
Alma Integrations Spotlight Presented by Karen Newbery, Head of Library Systems and Integration Support and Julie Brannon, IT Business Analyst
| E-Resource Access and Troubleshooting FAQs.pdf |
July 3 | Cancelled | |||
August 7 | DUL Controlled HVAC Shutdown Pilot Project followed by time for sharing, shout-outs, kudos, congrats | Warpwire Recording | DUL Controlled HVAC Shutdown Pilot Project Presenters: Beth Doyle, Head, Conservation Services and Preservation Officer and Tom Young, Staff Engineer, Facilities Management—Energy Management From January 8 to April 30, 2024, Duke Facilities and Maintenance Department and Duke University Libraries conducted and implemented a controlled overnight shut down of the HVAC air handlers in Perkins-Bostock. The goals of the project were to reduce DUL’s energy footprint and save energy costs while maintaining a good environment for the collections. Join us at First Wednesday where Tom and Beth will share their findings. | |
September 4 | Alma Integrations Spotlight - Leganto and Update on Alma TRLN Discovery Integration and Q&A Session | Warpwire Recording | Alma Integrations Spotlight - Leganto Presented by Erin Nettifee In the last stages of the Alma rollout, DUL also implemented Leganto, an addition to Alma to support course reserves. We'll talk about what Leganto does, how the implementation went, and some of the project wins and ongoing challenges now that the fall semester has begun. Update on Alma TRLN Discovery Integration and Q&A Session Presented by Karen Newbery and Thomas Crichlow Karen and Thomas will provide a status update on the Alma migration, known issues, and next steps. Team members will also be present to participate in an open Q&A session, so feel free to bring your questions about Alma and how it integrates with various library systems. | Leganto Slide Deck First Wednesday September 2024.pptx |
October 2 | NSE Generative AI Lab and Updates from the Software Team | Warpwire Recording | NSE Generative AI Lab: Experimenting with emerging AI Research Tools Hannah Rozear, Jenna Strawbridge, and Meredith Parker-Terry The Generative AI Lab, a pilot initiative by NSE librarians, was designed to explore and evaluate five emerging AI tools: Scite.ai, Consensus, Elicit, ScholarAI, and Research Rabbit. In this talk, participating NSE librarians will share insights into our evaluation process, describing how we used a structured template to assess each tool. We’ll discuss our initial findings, highlighting the strengths and limitations of these tools, and what we learned in the process. Updates from the Software Team, Fall 2024 Will Sexton and Angela Zoss Angela Zoss (Head, Assessment & User Experience Strategy) and Will Sexton (Head, Software Strategies & Platforms) will present updates on software development occurring over the past year. | First Wed - 2024-10-02 - NSE Generative AI Lab.pdf Gen AI Evaluation Framework from NSE Librarians |
November 6 | Cancelled | |||
December 4 | Mirador & IIIF and Alma Brings Electronic Usage Data to Everyone | Warpwire Recording | Mirador & IIIF: Manifesting a Vision for DUL’s Digital Images Sean Aery (he/him/his), Digital Projects Developer, Assessment & User Experience Strategy Dept Over the summer of 2024, a dedicated cross-departmental team completed a transformative project that redefines how researchers interact with DUL’s nearly one million digital images, both within the Duke Digital Repository (DDR) and via external platforms. In support of this project, DUL extended its use of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), a set of community-supported open standards for images. The team accomplished two major goals in DDR: 1) built support for IIIF Presentation API “manifests” to represent compound digital objects; and 2) implemented Mirador — a feature-rich open source image viewer based on these manifests. In this presentation, we will explore the UX improvements resulting from the project, summarize our research that guided our implementation choices, and showcase exciting new opportunities for future integrations. Alma Brings Electronic Usage Data to Everyone! Sarah Holsapple, Collection Analysis Librarian Alma is drastically redefining our e-usage ecosystem! It's an exciting time for us, but possibly a little overwhelming. You'll learn the basics of what electronic usage is in Alma, where to find it, and what it means as I walk through a demo of how to find, pin, and use the e-usage dashboards. I would also love to hear how you use, or would like to use, e-usage so that I can continue to improve the dashboards. Please consider completing this survey from Sarah: | https://tinyurl.com/2024-12-firstwed-aery |