Posts by Lydia Middleton

The Challenges of the Literature Review Process and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence by Michael Shensky A comprehensive and well conducted literature review is the foundation on which new research is built, yet carrying out a successful review of published academic work on a particular topic can be challenging. Given the importance of the task…

Human + Artificial Intelligence in Libraries by Kimberly S. Grotewold Libraries have historically been places, either physical or digital, where people go to seek knowledge, learn skills, and thoughtfully engage with others’ ideas– where people go to grow their “human intelligence.” The vast accumulation of information about people’s lives and behaviors has become the foundation for…

Collaborative Model Towards Intelligence by Sharon Whitfield In recent years, AI has been used to determine whether images have cancers that are not seen or not considered problematic by trained physicians (Liu, 2018; Svoboda, 2022). A recent study by Lebig, Brehmer, Bunk, Byng, Pinker & Umutlu (2022) reported that AI was able to screen for…

Do We Need to Adopt A Bento-Style Search Result Page? by Raymond Wang The IDEA Institute has broadened my knowledge of artificial intelligence and deepened my understanding of machine learning in the academic library settings. In addition to the two months onboarding preparation when we learned programming language using Phyton, the weeklong intensive institute has…

Libraries in the Artificial Intelligence Era by Mary Aycock Did you know that AI advances have outpaced even Moore’s law, the principle that the speed and capability of computers can double every few years? (https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-training-mlperf) Trying to keep track of all the advances practically requires an AI assistant! The stakes for machine learning seem particularly…