Catching up I’m going to take a break from the topic of AI for data research to write about some recent outreach and teaching experiences. SOUCABL 2024 is coming up in two weeks, so expect a post a…| This Liaison Life
Yesterday my work friend Vanessa Apple, a coder in our tech department, drove over to Winston-Salem for a visit. At one of the downtown breweries (a dog-friendly one, as Vanessa is into dogs), I wa…| This Liaison Life
1 post published by stevebizlib during February 2025| This Liaison Life
3 posts published by stevebizlib during August 2025| This Liaison Life
Ms. Emily Britt, a proud double alumna of UNC Greensboro (BS Entrepreneurship, 2015; MBA 2020), is a Thomasville, NC native, coming to UNCG in 2012 for school and continuing as a staff member after graduation. Emily has worked in various roles with the University before landing in fundraising as a Development Officer. Emily has worked in Development officially for three years and tangentially for […]| This Liaison Life
Catching up In a recent post of SearchReSearch, Dan Russell discusses: When would I use a regular search engine? When would I use an LLM / AI system? Categories of tasks that LLMs generally d…| This Liaison Life
Shaun Bennett is the Research Librarian for Business, Education, and Data Literacy at the NC State University Libraries. His previous academic research was dedicated to Medieval Scandinavian litera…| This Liaison Life
Last week was busy for me, with 12 class sessions plus a few early research consultations. (Two of those sessions were for my own for-credit class, but I had to prep for those too — accessing…| This Liaison Life
Home stretch of the spring semester — getting into the peak weeks of research consultations, as the student teams prepare their final reports and presentations. Good luck to all the academic …| This Liaison Life
2 posts published by stevebizlib during October 2024| This Liaison Life
Catching up: This is spring break for the UNC system, and spring-like temperatures have finally arrived. Flowers are budding and pretty birds are foraging the new growth. The library is quiet as ex…| This Liaison Life
2 posts published by stevebizlib during January 2025| This Liaison Life
2 posts published by stevebizlib during July 2025| This Liaison Life
Last week I wrote an external review for a librarian going up for promotion. To begin writing one of these, I usually open a previous review in order to reuse my template and the UNCG letterhead. The last two times I did this, I thought that the below paragraph from July 2024 could form the […]| This Liaison Life
Katharine Elkes is the Business & Patent/Trademark Librarian at Founders Library, Howard University. She earned her MLIS at Simmons University, and her Bachelor of Arts — English Language…| This Liaison Life
I returned from a three-week car trip to the news that Professor Welsh’s application for a renewal of UNCG’s Coleman Foundation grant was successful and that I am one of the new Coleman Fellows on …| This Liaison Life
3 posts published by stevebizlib during August 2013| This Liaison Life
Catching up: This is the final month of year 10 of this blog. Thank you, readers! There probably won’t be much action here this summer though, my apologies. Reasons/excuses below. In most summers, …| This Liaison Life
This seems like a good time to write on this topic. On Thursday, I finished reading the submissions to Entrelib International 2025, and there were many good ones – plus a few I wish the planning team could ask the submitter to rewrite. From the other side of the table, Breezy Silver (Michigan State), Skylar […]| This Liaison Life
Summer is supposed to be quiet for me (and it usually is) compared to the fall and spring semesters, but I taught three workshops in a five-workday period – a rare opportunity to tell a new instruc…| This Liaison Life
Catching up Spring flowers in North Carolina The planning team for the ELC “Invisible Industry: Strategies and Resources for Supporting Cannabis Entrepreneurs” had its first meeting last week. What…| This Liaison Life
2 posts published by stevebizlib during April 2024| This Liaison Life
2 posts published by stevebizlib during March 2024| This Liaison Life
Catching up Just two short items this time before the main event. I’ll post a “summer reading roundup” pretty soon. GAIL and AACSB Business Librarians Affinity Group Impact Week are going on right …| This Liaison Life
2024-25 proved to be an unusual school year for me. Two examples: In the fall, we hired the amazing Ava Calpino to join me as a fellow business librarian, among other responsibilities Ava has. She …| This Liaison Life
Ava Calpino is the Assessment Liaison Librarian and co-business librarian at UNCG. She received her MA-LIS from UW-Madison in 2024 and is enjoying her new career. You can connect with her on Linked…| This Liaison Life
Catching up Today is the second day of classes. I’ve met the new students in my two co-teaching classes, ENT 300 yesterday and MKT 426 just now. The plan for 426, the “Export Odyssey” export promot…| This Liaison Life
Kelsey Moore is an MLIS student who has reached her final semester of the graduate program at UNC Greensboro after beginning her time there as an undergraduate four years ago. As part of her capsto…| This Liaison Life
This is a sequel to “my crazy liaison Friday” report from 2018. I’ve spent the rest of the week catching up from Monday. Monday, February 3, 2025 9am Arrived at work. Quickly checked and cleaned up…| This Liaison Life
Catching up Our library tower has now shut down for renovation. A moving company is boxing up the books and moving them out of the building. I snuck up to the tower on our last work day in December…| This Liaison Life
Happy New Year, friends! Good luck with 2025. Last month, I had the pleasure and honor of introducing my new colleague Ava Calpino to the business school faculty as our new co-business librarian. T…| This Liaison Life
This is the busy time of the semester in which the best chance for me to publish a post is to reuse something from a recent class or project. Next week I’m talking to two sections of the “Informat…| This Liaison Life
UNC Greensboro is now closed for Hurricane Florence. It’s getting a little breezy this morning but the storm is still far from this part of the state. We are of course concerned about the students …| This Liaison Life
Occasionally I write up an interesting research instruction workshop (example) and share my lesson plan, plus what actually happened. This time, however, I’m sharing a bigger picture of a busy thre…| This Liaison Life
Elizabeth Price works as one of two business librarians at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. When not working to improve JMU’s business collections and students’ business information sk…| This Liaison Life
The challenge of serving, working, and surviving as a lean liaison has been a recurring topic at this blog. Students and faculty are short-changed when thousands of them have to share one library l…| This Liaison Life
Continuing my occasional exploration of generative AI for data discovery. See this May post, first paragraph, for links to my earlier work. Updates on AI for research SearchReSearch continues to be…| This Liaison Life
Happy spring break! Well it’s that magic week at UNCG at least. Catching up Sorry I haven’t written here since before the spring semester began. We liaisons are busy people, right? I’ve had more ni…| This Liaison Life
Each summer I like to focus on what other subject liaisons and business librarians are up to and writing about. As usual, I’m focusing on writings outside of JBFL and Ticker since many business lib…| This Liaison Life
This is the final of three posts on use of AI in my entrepreneurship/economic development research class in Spring 2024. Post one summarized how I added AI to my syllabus and assignments. Post two …| This Liaison Life
Catching up My library once again has a difficult budget for subscriptions but has one-time money from the provost’s office to spend at the end of our fiscal year. So I’m digging deep to find more …| This Liaison Life
SOUCABL happened on Thursday, March 7 in a new location, the business school at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. This was spring break at UNCG so I didn’t have to cancel my class to at…| This Liaison Life
Nancy Lovas (UNC Chapel Hill) of BizLibratory and I are both posting on this topic on the same day. We wrote comments on each other’s drafts — you can see her comments on this post in t…| This Liaison Life
Catching up The business library directors released a new issue of Ticker, all open access: The articles cover services, collections, and hiring and staffing – all useful stuff. Also AACSB en…| This Liaison Life
Breezy Silver is the Interim Director and Collections Coordinator of the Gast Business Library at Michigan State University Libraries. She manages a team of 2 librarians, 2 support staff, and appro…| This Liaison Life
Catching up The Entrelib (ELC) fall mini-conference happened last week: Refresh & Refocus: Libraries’ New Trends in Supporting Entrepreneurship. The speakers hailed from Australia, Canada, Mada…| This Liaison Life
This is a promised follow-up to my August post summarizing the BLINC summer workshop. BLINC talked about AI, and I concluded that post with some thoughts of my own on AI as a research tool for nume…| This Liaison Life
Looking ahead to June I’m attending ALA Summer for the first time since…well, a long time. I’m looking forward to seeing many new and old friends. There are several panel discussions featuring ELC …| This Liaison Life
