SWITCH Day (January 11, 2024)

Generative AI

Presentation on generative AI with a focus on large language models and their implications for libraries

Utschig, Katie

SWITCH DAY
January 2024
Generative AI

• Welcome
• What is AI?
• Applications in Higher Ed
• Experiencing AI
• Risks and Considerations
• Library News
• Lunch

Agenda

Welcome

PPTX Slides 4-29 displayed screen shots from Google searches illustrating how ChatGPT took the world by storm
shortly after it was launched on November 30, 2022. The screen shots also made clear how wide-ranging were the
opinions on the future role - for good and for ill - across industry and education.

What is AI?

Creator: Raj Ramesh
Date Uploaded: August 13, 2017
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ePf9rue1Ao&t=13s
About content creator: According to a bio on ContactOut (https://contactout.com/DrRajRamesh-3703727), Raj Ramesh has a Ph.D. from Wayne State University where he
focused on Artificial Intelligence. He has served as a business consultant and public
speaker.

Creator: Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of
Amsterdam
Presenter: Willem (Jelle) Zuidema
Date Uploaded: November 20, 2023
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlyPy_Q0h0
About content creator: According to Professor Zuidema’s webplek (https://
staff.fnwi.uva.nl/w.zuidema/), he is an Associate Professor of Natural
Language Processing, Explainable AI and Cognitive Modelling at the
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. The ILLC is a research
institution associated with the University of Amsterdam
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

Creator: Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of
Amsterdam
Presenter: Willem (Jelle) Zuidema
Date Uploaded: November 20, 2023
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlyPy_Q0h0
About content creator: According to Professor Zuidema’s webplek (https://
staff.fnwi.uva.nl/w.zuidema/), he is an Associate Professor of Natural Language
Processing, Explainable AI and Cognitive Modelling at the Institute for Logic,
Language and Computation. The ILLC is a research institution associated with the
University of Amsterdam
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

Creator: Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam
Presenter: Willem (Jelle) Zuidema
Date Uploaded: November 20, 2023
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlyPy_Q0h0
About content creator: According to Professor Zuidema’s webplek (https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/w.zuidema/), he is an Associate
Professor of Natural Language Processing, Explainable AI and Cognitive Modelling at the Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation. The ILLC is a research institution associated with the University of Amsterdam
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

Applications in higher
education

Applications in higher education
Research
• Brainstorming topics
• Identifying alternative search terms
• Performing a literature search (domain-specific tools)
• Summarizing
• Identifying gaps in the literature
• Finding the source of an idea
• Data analysis and visualization
• Generating or critiquing survey questions
• Conversational discovery!

Applications in higher education
Writing
• Improving grammar, tone, style
• Generating outlines
• Generating graphs from supplied data
• Generating images for presentations, reports, LibGuides, etc.
• Critiquing your arguments
• Writing emails
• Writing grants
• Writing literature reviews
• Writing articles/books

Applications in higher education
Productivity Tools

• Generating or correcting code
• Summarizing meetings and producing action items
• Creating slide decks

Applications in higher education
Assisting Students
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Translation, speech-to-text, text-to-speech
Generating quiz questions or flashcards
Modifying text for grade or reading level
Simplifying vocabulary for non-native speakers
Reframing concepts

Discussion
1. Have you used any generative AI tools? If so, which tools
have you explored? If not, what is holding you back?
2. Has your institution developed generative AI policies for
students, faculty, and staff?
3. Do you think librarians should teach students how to use
generative AI tools?
4. Do you think librarians should address the risks and
ethics of generative AI tools in information literacy
sessions?

Break Time

Experiencing AI

I want
a pet!

Too bad I can’t read
your mind. I could
give a better answer
if I knew what kinds
of animals you like,
your environment,
allergies, etc.

Prompt
Engineering

Effective prompt characteristics in
order of importance:
1. Task
2. Context
3. Exemplar
4. Persona
5. Format
6. Tone

Break Time

Risks and
Considerations

Creator: RiskBites
Date Uploaded: April 3, 2023
URL: https://youtu.be/y_gEw_KDnMI
Creative Commons license – Reuse allowed
About content creator: According to the YouTube video, Andrew Maynard is Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions at Arizona State University.

Risks and Considerations
1.Trust
2.Bias
3.Consent
4.Security
5.Academic Integrity

Discussion
1. What are the greatest risks associated with generative AI in an
academic setting?
2. How should universities manage those risks? Policies, detection
tools, education, modifying how we assess learning?
3. Do you think the benefits of AI outweigh the risks in higher
education?
4. How do we effectively educate students on the benefits and
perils of AI when the landscape is continuously shifting?
5. Put your brainstorming hat on. How might AI revolutionize library
services?



Its glorified autocomplete

A hands on presentation that allowed participants to experience using generative AI (ChatGPT, Bard, and Dall-E

Palmer, Jason

It’s glorified
autocomplete:
An introduction to
ChatGPT and other
Chatbots

Jason Palmer
SWITCH Day / January 2024

Today’s plan
• Quick show of hands.
• What it is. / What it isn’t.
• Trying it firsthand
• See what it’s good at.
• See what it’s not.

• See how your students could use it.
• See how you could use it.
• See how it’s going to affect your job.

My (very summarized)
presentation

Let’s try it!
• Get into groups of three with people not from your library.
• Do introductions if necessary.

• Go to https://openai.com/chatgpt
• Go to Login, then ChatGPT, then authenticate via Google.
• “Whenever I ask a question, suggest a better a question and ask if I
would like to use it instead?” (Thanks, Dyan!)

Opening silliness / great at mimicry
• A song about Wisconsin done in the style of Bruce Springsteen.
• A monologue about [your favorite animal] written in the style of [your
favorite late night show host].
• A paper about [topic] and [completely unrelated topic]. Examples
include:
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Feminism / Green Bay Packers
Gustav Mahler / Penguins
Wisconsin Badgers / Barry Manilow
Pointillism / Taylor Swift

Stump the e-chump
• How many freemasons killed JFK?
• Is Hillary Clinton from Xenu or Neptor?
• When did the Packers last beat the Chicago Bears?
• How many Pulitzer Prizes did James A [no period] Michener win?
• Now ask it who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1948.

Possible uses by (increasingly lazy) students
• Summarize this article for me (provide link)
• Help me brainstorm a topic for my term paper about Hans Christian
Anderson.
• Help me find sources about Hans Christian Anderson's influence on
Children's literature.
• Write an outline about Andersen’s influence on children’s literature in APA
format.
• Write me an essay about Andersen’s influence on children’s literature.
• What are your sources?

Possible uses by (increasingly lazy) librarians
• Reference Questions:
• Can you summarize Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to a graduate student student?
• Can you summarize Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to a freshman?

• Information literacy questions:
• Explain copyright fair use to an ESL student.
• Come up with an outline to discuss information literacy to college undergraduates.

• Instruction:
• I'm a university librarian. Come up with a lesson plan about the library for incoming freshmen.
• I'm a university librarian. Come up with a lesson plan about ChatGPT for fellow librarians.

Check in #1
• First thoughts. How did it do?
• Share examples of the ChatGPT surprising you in a good way.
• Share examples of the ChatGPT surprising you in a bad way.

Fake news detector
• Go to http://tinyurl.com/SWITCHDAY2024
(which goes to https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20325-store-data-inyour-body-without-cyborg-modification)

• Go to https://www.summarizebot.com/text_api_demo.html
• Click on Fake News Detection, enter http://tinyurl.com/SWITCHDAY2024
• How’d it do?

Now check the date of the article.

• Try you own examples. Any better?

Google Bard
• Go to http://bard.google.com. Sign in.
• “Whenever I ask a question, suggest a better a question and ask if I
would like to use it instead.”
• When did the Packers last beat the Chicago Bears?
• Brainstorm topics, write outlines, summarize articles, draft papers
• Notice the rewrite draft option at the top?
• “What are your sources?”

Check in #2
• First thoughts. How did it do?
• Did you notice any differences between ChatGPT and Google Bard?

• Share examples of the Bard surprising you in a good way.
• Share examples of the Bard surprising you in a bad way.

DALL-E
• Go to http://labs.openai.com

(You might have to clear your browser history.)

Enter either SWITCHDAY2024@switchinc.org or
SWITCHDAY2024.GROUP2@switchinc.org (Not case sensitive)
Password for both accounts: WhatHathAIWrought?

DALL-E
You are going to run out of ideas before this bot does.
Ask for it for photos of benign yet wildly implausible things:
• A photograph of John Wayne doing yoga.
• A photograph of Gandhi playing ice hockey.
• A photograph of a well-paid librarian earning enough money to retire.
Don’t try anything too risqué—you might get banned.

Check-in #3
• How’d it do?
• If there's any text in the photo, it's most probably gibberish.
• Renderings of people are usually off, especially with their hands and fingers.

• Copyright and fair-use nightmare.

This isn’t even the newest version of this picture-rendering AI. (The
newest one requires a subscription, and we’re cheap.)
Any ideas on how either you or your students could use this?

Final thoughts.
• “If it's inaccessible to the poor, it's neither radical nor revolutionary.”
- Attributed to Jonathan Herrera, Former Visual Arts professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• All we needed today were free Google accounts and $30 for some DALL-E credits

• When it’s all black box (you don’t know what’s going on inside the
machine), it’s hard to trust it.
• Biased data that’s ingested begets biased results.

• These machines are great at generating but struggle at detecting.
• Your students are already using these tools. What do we do?

My (very summarized)
final thoughts.



Consider the possibilities with Omeka

Presentation on how Wisconsin Lutheran College is using Omeka to build a capstone repository

Rekowski, Michelle

Consider the
Possibilities with Omeka:
What we’ve accomplished so far

Michelle Rekowski - Librarian
SWITCH Day Jan. 10, 2024

CHECK-IN
How many of you
have used Omeka?

Project Flowchart
Identify
Collection

Digitize Physical
Holdings

Discuss Determine
Scan
Priorities
Scale
Documents

Edit PDFs
to enable
searching

Compile
Metadata
Review
Documents

Upload
& Review

CSV
Input on
Import
upload
spreadsheet

Check Item
Formatting

Capstone Repository Stage 1
Determine
Scale
Identify
Collection
Discuss
Priorities

6 Departments
1987-Present
400+ Theses
Deadline
End user needs vs
time constraints
Level of description
Limit metadata
fields

Capstone Repository Stage 2

Digitize Physical
Holdings

Scan
Documents

Big thanks
to our LSAs!

Edit PDFs
to enable
searching

Kofax PDF
editor

Capstone Repository Stage 3

Capstone Repository Stage 4
CSV
Import
Upload
& Review
Check Item
Formatting

Responding to Feedback

Future Avenues for Expansion
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Graduate Education Theses
Sport & Exercise Science Undergraduate Capstones
Sport And Recreation Management Graduate Capstones

DISCUSSION
Is there a collection you
want to create on Omeka?
OR
What Omeka projects are
you already working on?



Instagram as a service

Describes the workflow MIAD uses to publicize library information and events via Instagram

Schmidt, Hannan

Instagram as a
Library Service
Harnessing Social Media to
Highlight Academic Library
Resources and Increase Engagement
Hannah Schmidt
January 11, 2024

85%
of Gen Z individuals between the ages of 16-25 use Instagram

https://earthweb.com/gen-z-social-media-usage-statistics/

62%
of those users check Instagram at least once a day

https://earthweb.com/gen-z-social-media-usage-statistics/

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Launched during the Covid-19
pandemic

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Social media as a service

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Change in handle Fall 2023
➢
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@MIADLearningCommons
@MIADLibrary

What to Post?
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Hours

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Heritage Months

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Recognition Days

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New acquisitions

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Announcements

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Events & reminders

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Collaborations

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Tips

Getting Started…

DO
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Keep a reasonable schedule – find balance

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Plan ahead

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DON’T
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Be afraid to delegate resource-finding to
student workers

Seek feedback on terminology

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Be afraid to reuse content

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Keep visuals in mind

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Crowd the image or use small text

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Make use of TinyURL or Bit.ly URL
shortening tools

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Forget to have fun!

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Connect with campus social media
presence and other library accounts

HOT TIPS
from the

MIAD Library

Thanks :)



Creative use of Alma: using in-house use to track patron interactions

Describes how WLC tracks patron interactions using Alma with a brief bib and item records that stand for different categories of encounters.

Baker, Jenny

Creative Use
of Alma: Using
In-house Use
to Track
Patron
Interactions
SWITCH Day
January 11, 2024

Library Reference Statistics

WLC Desk Stats

Page of barcodes kept at the
Reference/Circulation Desk so that both
librarians and student workers can record
transactions with students.

Katie created this desktop widget so we can
get an at-a-glance view of how busy we’ve
been. The chart corresponds to our fiscal
year so that we can easily translate those
numbers to IPEDS, library reports and more.
WLC.EDU

Why did we create this?
1. More accurate count for
IPEDS, surveys
2. Easy way to show how much
we do (administration, HLC
etc.)
WLC.EDU

Alma Set Up

Katie helped us set up a “dummy” bib
record (suppressed from Discovery)
WLC.EDU

Alma Set Up - continued

WLC.EDU

Questions?
•If you are interested in creating
something similar or wondering more
about what Alma can do for you?
Reach out to Katie – you’ll be glad you
did!!

WLC.EDU