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

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

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

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

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

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

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

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

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.