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  • Approaches to “AI 101” in ASERL Libraries

    Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
    Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
    Location: Online - At Your Computer

    Many ASERL libraries have developed introductory courses for students to gain experience in using generative AI tools responsibly. In this session, presenters from Auburn University Libraries, Clemson University Libraries, and Georgia State University Libraries will discuss how they are approaching this rapidly-evolving topic. Subtopics will include AI privacy and data control, tips for collaborating with campus partners, strategies for navigating and managing information resources, and ways to enhance productivity and learning. We will explore tools tools such as NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, and Perplexity. Attendees will come away with practical insights and examples to inform their own use of generative AI tools in academic settings.

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  • Troubleshooting On The Desk: Academic Library Edition

    Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
    Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    Location: Online - At Your Computer

    Academic library staff are essential partners in supporting students and faculty, and troubleshooting technical issues is a regular part of the job. Join us for this engaging webinar designed specifically for academic libraries, where we'll explore practical strategies to address common challenges with e-resources.

    In the first half of the session, we’ll cover effective troubleshooting techniques for frequently used academic resources, including authentication issues, access errors, and common problems with NC LIVE databases and publisher platforms. The second half will be an open Q&A, giving you the opportunity to ask questions, share tips, and learn from colleagues across the state.

    Whether you're staffing the desk solo or supporting a busy research community, this session will equip you with the confidence and tools to resolve issues quickly and effectively.

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  • Summer Digitization Series: Digitization Projects Showcase 1

    Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2025
    Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    Location: Online - At Your Computer

    The CARLI Preservation Committee is delighted to showcase digitization projects at Illinois libraries as part of the Summer Digitization Webinar Series, in partnership with the Florida Virtual Campus. 

    Project 1: “Using Multispectral Imaging to Augment Digitized West African Manuscripts” presented by Stephanie Gowler and Nicole Finzer, Northwestern University Libraries
    The Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University Libraries (NUL) is home to over 3,000 Arabic script materials from West Africa. The size, scope, and uniqueness of these collections, along with increasing global scholarly interest, make them a priority for conservation and digitization. The NUL Preservation Department has begun capturing multispectral images (MSI) of the collections using a VSC®80 forensic questioned document examination workstation. The VSC®80 allows us to quickly and consistently capture and annotate a wide range of MSI - which make visible watermarks, inks, evidence of burnishing, and other materiality of the manuscripts. These MSI are being integrated into the digital repository alongside the digitized West African manuscripts and offer new avenues for research. This talk will highlight the collaborative efforts to treat, re-house, and image Paden 417 (مختصر في فروع المالكية), a copy of the “Mukhtasar” of Khalil b. Ishaq b. Musa al-Jundi, a fourteenth-century handbook of Maliki legal principles.

    Project 2: “Collaborative Preservation at the Crossroads of Science and History: Digitizing the Barnard Atlas” presented by Christina Miranda, University of Chicago Library
    The Yerkes Observatory Glass Plates Digitization Project at the University of Chicago Library highlights the unique intersection of scientific and historical significance in its collection of historical astronomy glass slides. Christina Miranda will discuss strategies to support astronomy researchers and historians through thoughtful digital preservation and enhanced access to the glass slides featured in Edward Emerson Barnard’s A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, commonly known as the "Barnard Atlas."

     

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