This presentation will focus on the lived experience of a librarian who recently moved into a large middle management role at a sizable R1 institution, while adjusting to a new discovery of their neurodiversity. Through discussing their lived experience, the presenter hopes to illustrate some of the lessons about neurodiversity in their current leadership role. They will also discuss their new journey into understanding their life as a neurodivergent person and how it intersects with their career. Finally, while this presentation will provide tips that the presenter has found helpful in their experience with neurodiversity and library leadership, it will also stress that part of neurodiversity is a lack of universality to our experiences. The presentation will address the importance of discovering what works on your own path. It will also discuss how to work with your neurodiverse colleagues to discover what will help them best succeed in their roles in their own institutions.
In January 2024, ChatGPT Plus, Microsoft Copilot Pro, Google Gemini Advanced, and Claude Pro were four of the most popular Generative AI services available to the public. Each had subscription plans for around $20.00 a month. Meanwhile, at [LIBRARY], library student workers were creating basic metadata for scanned electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from the 1920s-1990s. Due to time constraints, these historical ETDs only had basic metadata fields such as title, author, and date. How could the Oklahoma State University library add valuable metadata with limited staff and time? To solve this problem, [LIBRARY] student workers began testing these four, subscription-based Generative AI services to see if they could create reliable, accurate abstracts and keywords. To do this, student workers learned how to create accurate prompts to gather the best possible metadata, and then they learned how to evaluate the results with a rubric provided by their supervisor. This presentation will demonstrate how student workers used Generative AI to create abstracts and keywords for electronic dissertations and theses for an institutional depository. Then it will compare these four Generative AI options, evaluate their performance for creating metadata, and envision the future of generative AI and metadata.
Genre/form terms describe what a resource is, while subject headings describe what a resource is about. While genre/form vocabularies have been available for use in libraries for years, they were often only used in special collections cataloging, in favor of using subject headings to provide genre/form information. As the use of faceted vocabularies has become more popular, so has the use of genre/form terms. The presentation will provide an overview of using genre/form terms in resource description today. Topics covered include the difference between genre/form terms and subject headings, benefits of recording genre/form terms, and how terms are recorded in various schema (e.g., MARC 21, Dublin Core, and BIBFRAME). A variety of genre form thesauri will be featured from Library of Congress Genre Form Terms to more specialized vocabularies such as Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging, and Genre Terms for Tabletop Games.
As censorship becomes more prevalent throughout the country, states are turning to legislation to cut attempts off at the knee. From proposed legislation threatening state funding to libraries to proposed administrative fees to individuals who challenge multiple books per month, states are looking for ways to defend the inalienable right to read. In New Mexico recently proposed legislation which aimed to curtail censorship within public libraries was recently introduced but ran out of time in a short budget session. While this legislation was well supported and will likely be reintroduced, there are lessons to be learned. Follow the legislative process, and hear from NM Deputy State Librarian and ALA UABB member, Kate Alderete on the ups and downs of passing anti book ban legislation and what ALA resources are available to library workers.
