These are my rough talk notes for the panel AI in Education and Libraries: Taking Privacy, Security, and Equity into Account for the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, which included Ray Pun and Lauren Goodlad. Thank you to Carolyn Bennett Glauda from SENYLRC for moderating. AI doesn’t “learn” the way humans do, although we […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals[…]In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
Below is the rough text from Collections as Culture, from my portion of ACRL Presents: “Cultures of Collecting: Sustaining Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Collection Development.” I am grateful to the Elois Sharpe at ACRL and Mary Beth Lock, Chair of the ACRL/EDI Committee for organizing this panel that included outstanding work from Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
Below is an excerpt from a writing project, if anyone has suggestions for a publisher I would love to hear from you. In early 2016 I attended a meeting with a substantial library systems and discovery layer vendor, as part of a multi-day venture. The vendor invited and paid for a number of early adopters […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
This is partial text of my comments to the university’s LMS task force. As we consider new learning management system (LMS) platforms, it may be useful to ask these questions from Hybrid Pedagogy to anchor our thinking at this time when so much student-faculty interaction relies on these structures. Who owns the tool? What does […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
Your kids are fine. Your kids that want to know why you have to use the computer for. the. whole. day. again. are fine. Your kids that can only communicate with smiles and fusses are fine. Your kids that were doing great with tummy time and had a good morning and you have to give […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
For April’s OpenCon Community Call, I discussed the process Grand Valley State University Libraries went through to develop parameters for licensing based on our deal breakers from late last year. Since that time, I’ve been working on a more flexible, visual way to explain the mapping process and this image is one draft at communicating […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
During crisis, it’s important to hold your values steady–though it should be said the distance between an organization’s articulated versus lived values is expansive and on full display in this moment. For my work, this means being even more deliberate and thoughtful about resource management. Collecting for a master’s comprehensive is a challenge under the […]| Scarlet Fixes Things
Slides from last week’s webinar. Text to follow.| Scarlet Fixes Things
Resilience at its core is the ability of a system to return to its previous state after a crisis. Resilience rhetoric is often a signal from administration that they’re willing to ignore the condit…| Scarlet Fixes Things