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Uri Libraries' Ai Lab--Evolving To Meet The Needs Of Students And Research Communities, Harrison Dekker, Angel Ferria, Indrani Mandal

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Kbart Phase Iii: Changes And Unresolved Questions, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Noah Levin, Stephanie Doellinger

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Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) is one of the most successful National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recommended practices. Formally supported by over eighty organizations across all stakeholder groups, it enables a standardized transfer of data between content providers and knowledgebases. The KBART Standing Committee has begun work on Phase III of KBART, which was last updated in 2014. In this NASIG 2021 session, three members of the KBART Standing Committee provided an overview of plans around Phase III of KBART, reviewing progress to date and highlighting efforts to resolve issues around KBART files for which there are no easy …

Don’T Wait, Automate! Industry Perspectives On Kbart Holdings Automation, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Matthew Ragucci, Stephanie Doellinger

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When trying to manage their e-resources, librarians spend a significant amount of time adjusting their holdings in vendor knowledgebases to make sure that the content their library can access is selected properly. This is often a tedious process, which, extrapolated out to each content provider, can be a drain on library resources. A National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recommended practice provides a solution to this problem by facilitating the automatic transfer and retrieval of library-specific Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) holdings data between content providers and knowledgebases. In this presentation, Matthew Ragucci of Wiley presents a publisher’s perspective on …

Ai And Its Moral Concerns, Bohyun Kim

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Kbart Phase Iii: Unresolved Questions, Andrée Rathemacher, Noah Levin, Stephanie Doellinger, Robert Heaton, Jason Friedman, Benjamin Johnson, Elif Eryilmaz-Sigwarth, Nettie Lagace

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During the “NISO update” session at the NISO Plus 2021 conference, which took place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the KBART (Knowledge Base and Related Tools) Standing Committee presented their plans and work toward KBART Phase III, a revision of the KBART Recommended Practice. In an interactive breakout session, they sought input from attendees on how KBART is being used and what new content types it should support. Presenters from the KBART Standing Committee were Noah Levin (Independent Professional), Stephanie Doellinger (OCLC, Inc.), Robert Heaton (Utah State University), and Andrée Rathemacher (University of Rhode Island). Assisting them …

Moving Forward With Digital Disruption: What Big Data, Iot, Synthetic Biology, Ai, Blockchain, And Platform Businesses Mean To Libraries, Bohyun Kim

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Digital disruption, also known as “the fourth industrial revolution,” is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres. This issue of Library Technology Reports (vol. 56, no. 2) examines today’s leading-edge technologies and their disruptive impacts on our society through examples such as extended reality, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), synthetic biology, 3-D bio-printing, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and platform businesses in the sharing economy. This report explains

• how new digital technologies are merging the physical and the biological with the digital;
• what kind of transformations are taking place as a result in production, management, and …

Advocating For Reproducibility, Harrison Dekker, Amy Riegelman

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As guest editors, we are excited to publish this special double issue ofIASSIST Quarterly. The topics of reproducibility, replicability, and transparency have been addressed in past issues of IASSIST Quarterly and at the IASSIST conference, but this double issue is entirely focused on these issues.

Managing And Improving Electronic Thesis And Dissertation Programs (Book Review), Julia Lovett

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Book review of Managing and improving electronic thesis and dissertation programs by Matthew C. Mariner.

Toward Inclusivity In The Documentation Of Student Struggle: Continuing The Discussion, Karen Walton Morse

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This article situates STANDing Together: Collaborating to Document Student Activism of Historically Marginalized Communities (an April 2019 presentation by archivists from Connecticut College, University of Connecticut, and the University of Rhode Island) within a larger context. It (re)introduces readers to the work of Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented) and invites them to continue the discussion started at STANDING Together by attending one of the IMLS National Leadership Grant for Libraries-funded STAND Symposia.

Ai-Powered Robots For Libraries: Exploratory Questions, Bohyun Kim

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With recent developments in machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI), it seems no longer extraordinary to think that we will be soon living in the world with many robots. While the term, ‘a robot’ conjures up the image of a humanoid machine, a robot can take many forms ranging from a drone, an autonomous vehicle, to a therapeutic baby seal-bot. But what counts as a robot, and what kind of robots should we expect to see at libraries?

AI has made it possible to make a robot intelligent and autonomous in performing tasks not only mechanical but also …

Ai And Creating The First Multidisciplinary Ai Lab, Bohyun Kim

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In this chapter, contributing author Bohyun Kim discuss artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning and why they are important for libraries. Kim shares how the University of Rhode Island created the first multidisciplinary AI lab, which launches in the fall of 2018. She discusses how the AI lab will be used to further research, discussion, and exploration of AI, and shares how such an environment can help facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration and foster interdisciplinary thinking. Kim shares the future hopes of the AI lab and AI.

President’S Message: Rebuilding Our Identity, Together, Bohyun Kim

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This is the President's message column from LITA President Bohyun Kim regarding the current discussion of forming a new division from LITA, ALCTS, and LLAMA that embraces the breakdown of silos and positive risk-taking to better collaborate and move our profession forward.

Institutional Repositories And Academic Social Networks: Competition Or Complement? A Study Of Open Access Policy Compliance Vs. Researchgate Participation, Julia A. Lovett, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Divana Boukari, Corey Lang

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INTRODUCTION The popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu indicates that scholars want to share their work, yet for universities with open access (OA) policies, these sites may be competing with institutional repositories (IRs) for content. This article seeks to reveal researcher practices, attitudes, and motivations around uploading their work to ResearchGate and complying with an institutional OA Policy through a study of faculty at the University of Rhode Island (URI). METHODS We conducted a population study to examine the participation by 558 full-time URI faculty members in the OA Policy and ResearchGate followed by a survey of …

Review Of Neely, Nick: Coast Range: A Collection From The Pacific Edge, Judith B. Barnett

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Review Of Cook, Langdon: Upstream For Wild Salmon, From River To Table, Judith B. Barnett

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Review Of Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story Of Life In Ten Movements, Judith B. Barnett

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Review Of Fortey, Richard: Fossils: The Key To The Past, Judith B. Barnett

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Review Of Harvell, Drew. A Sea Of Glass : Searching For The Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy In An Ocean At Risk, Judith B. Barnett

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Review Of Leiren-Young, Mark: The Killer Whale Who Changed The World, Judith B. Barnett

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Rhode Island Election Tickets: A Survey, Russell J. Desimone, Daniel C. Schofield

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Rhode Island was the first English colony in America to issue printed election ballots, with the first issued in the mid-1740s. This survey of Rhode Island election tickets, while not exhaustive, is representative of the use of tickets in elections spanning a period of over 150 years and documents state and local politics, political factions and election results from the Ward-Hopkins controversy of the colonial period to political factions during the War of 1812, the Anti-Masonic period of the 1830s, the Law and Order coalition of the 1840s following events of the Dorr Rebellion, the temperance movement of the 1850s, …

Review Of Mancuso, Stefano And Alessandra Viola. Brilliant Green : The Surprising History And Science Of Plant Intelligence., Judith B. Barnett

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Review Of Schmitt, Catherine: The President's Salmon, Judith B. Barnett

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Review Of Casey, Susan: Voices In The Ocean: A Journey Into The Wild And Haunting World Of Dolphins, Judith B. Barnett

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Crowdfunding Access To Archives, Andrée J. Rathemacher

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Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

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Over the past year, the University of Rhode Island (URI) has taken some steps towards shifting the default to Open Access for both faculty scholarship and student work. First and foremost, in March 2013, the URI Faculty Senate passed a Harvard-style Open Access mandate. And in February 2013, the Library and the Graduate School began making electronic dissertations and theses openly available through URI’s institutional repository. In this presentation, we will define Open Access policies and discuss why they are important. We will give an overview of our experiences with Open Access advocacy, implementation of policies, and next steps.

Article-Level Metrics And Altmetrics: New Ways To Measure The Impact Of Your Research, Andrée J. Rathemacher

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Altmetrics: Help Your Researchers Measure Their Full Impact, Andrée J. Rathemacher

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This report covers a program sponsored by the Scholarly Communication Interest Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC), an independent chapter of ACRL. The workshop, titled “Altmetrics: Help Your Researchers Measure Their Full Impact,” took place on November 14, 2013 at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Approximately 60 people attended.

University Of Rhode Island Rda Implementation Plan 2013‐2015, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

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This document gives a general outline of the time frame and methods to be used to implement Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging rules for the University of Rhode Island.

Resource Description And Access (Rda) Cataloging Policy For The University Of Rhode Island, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

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A general RDA policy for the University of Rhode Island.

Weeding Your Garden, Joanna M. Burkhardt

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Power Point presentation for the RILA Annual Conference in 2013, regarding tips on weeding collections.