The beauty of information literacy is that there’s never a time when it’s not at the fore in our academic, professional, and even personal lives. Our days are filled with moments that bring up the need for facts and a way to find them, and our modern world offers a multitude of avenues for doing just that. The newest tool is generative AI—especially ChatGPT, which your students and patrons, and perhaps you, are using for information needs big and small. As when the internet was introd...| Infobase
Mitigating bias and inaccuracies in responses from generative AI requires careful prompt engineering that encourages critical evaluation, cross-checking, and the identification of biases. Here are some advanced prompts designed to help students and professionals critically interrogate AI output, improve accuracy, … Continue reading →| Brainstorm in Progress
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is prompting libraries to increasingly define their relationship with the technology. As I speak with library professionals in the US and abroad, there are some themes I see developing. Administrators Want a Blueprint for AI Adoption! Unfortunately, the road to emerging technologies in the library is often unpaved, and […] The post AI in Libraries: Notes from the Field appeared first on The Digital Librarian.| The Digital Librarian
In the throes of my first year of pre-pandemic teaching, when I was fresh and green and hardly older (or taller!) than my students, the term Information Literacy meant something more »| Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
As a Master of Library and Information Science student at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Library and Information Science, I have learned that Information Literacy is a critical more »| Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
World News Digest‘s 2024 Elections Guide brings together in one place everything researchers need to know about the 2024 U.S. election.| Infobase
Learn about Infobase's accurate, trustworthy health reference resources that educators can use to promote health literacy.| Infobase
Great statement from IFLA about the importance of media and information literary followed by some recommendations. IFLA Media and Information Literacy Recommendations: In order to survive and develop, make decisions, and solve problems in every facet of life – personal, social, educational, and professional, individuals, communities, and nations need information about themselves as well as their physical […]| Libraries and Transliteracy
In this short video, Dr. Gail Bush from National Louis University talks about information and literacy. She states we’ve moved beyond information literacy toward information transliteracy, where the format becomes “literally irrelevant.” Dr. Bush says that in the 20th Century we were taught to “answer the question” but now we must “question the answer” She […]| Libraries and Transliteracy
So there’s this phrase being bandied about: “post-truth.” As in, we live in a “post-truth era.” Popular use of the phrase is over a decade old, but its recent ascendan…| Sense & Reference
So, I’ve been trying to come up with a research agenda. I mean, I can’t be the “Framework is stupid” guy forever;1 I don’t want to get pigeonholed. Anyway, it’s …| Sense & Reference
On my most recent post about the ACRL-Document-That-Must-Not-Be-Named, @valibrarian asked what I thought about metaliteracy. I’ve written so much about threshold concepts in the You-Kn…| Sense & Reference