Episode 36 (December 2024): The Days After – What Now?

Beth Patin, Dave Lankes & Mike Eisenberg

Description

The election is over, and the reactions are emotional and raw. Some people are cheering; others crying. America is still as divided politically and socially as the day before. Putting those things aside, let’s look ahead from an information & library perspective. What’s in store for us as individuals, families and communities? Are there lessons learned from the campaigns and result from an information perspective? What might the next few years look like for libraries and librarians and those who use and rely on library resources and service? Are there opportunities for libraries to serve and thrive or will it require us to play defense in order to simply survive?

This episode includes:

• Wazzup?
• AI Watch
• Main Topic
• Awesome Library Thingy

References & Resources

Wazzup?

Patin, B., & Sebastian, M. (2024). The Harms of Epistemicide: Examining Critical Book, Publishing, and Literacy Studies. Litwin Books. ISBN 978-1-63400-148-9. https://litwinbooks.com/books/the-harms-of-epistemicide/

Patin, B., & Sebastian, M. (2021, November). Ep-i-what? Using The Force to Understand Epistemicide. Information Matters. Retrieved from https://informationmatters.org/2021/11/ep-i-what-using-the-force-to-understand-epistemicide/

AI Watch:

Google. (2024). NotebookLM. Retrieved from https://notebooklm.google.com/

Brown, A. (2024, September 26). University Libraries receives grant to create Generative Artificial Intelligence Incubator Program. Virginia Tech News. Retrieved from https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/09/univlib-grant-AI-training.html

Ponce, R., Singh, P., & Moore, M. (2024, July 11). Best AI tools of 2024. TechRadar. Retrieved from https://www.techradar.com/best-ai-tools-of-2024

Tom’s Guide Staff. (2024, July 22). Tom’s Guide Awards 2024: The best AI tools and devices we tested this year. Tom’s Guide. Retrieved from https://www.tomsguide.com

The AI Hype Index. (2024). MIT Technology Review, 127(6), 88.  https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/23/1105192/ai-hype-index-nov-dec-2024/

Williams, R. (2024, August 9). Google DeepMind trained a robot to beat humans at table tennis. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved from https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/09/1096102/google-deepmind-trained-a-robot-to-beat-humans-at-table-tennis/

Main Topic: The Days After – What Now?

Restuccia, A., & Ballhaus, R. (2024, October 29). America’s Top Archivist Puts a Rosy Spin on U.S. History—Pruning the Thorny Parts. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/national-archives-history-colleen-shogan-f8512bc3

America’s Top Archivist Puts a Rosy Spin on U.S. History—Pruning the Thorny Parts https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/national-archives-history-colleen-shogan-f8512bc3

Currie, M., & Paris, B. S. (2017, February 21). How the ‘guerrilla archivists’ saved history – and are doing it again under Trump. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/how-the-guerrilla-archivists-saved-history-and-are-doing-it-again-under-trump-72346

Braddock, J. (2020, January 28). Libraries and Authoritarianism 1940, 2020  Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/libraries-and-authoritarianism-1940-2020/

Harari, Y. N. (2024). Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI (First U.S. edition). Random House. https://search.worldcat.org/title/1439595634

Awesome Library Thingy

Envisioning Ancestors with AI. (2024, June 17). Uncommonwealth. Retrieved from https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2024/06/17/ai-ancestors/

 San José State University. (2024). Students Against Youth Violence (SAYV). Retrieved from https://www.sjsu.edu/information-data-society/students/sayv.php

Price, K., Dowell, L., & Villagran, M. (2022-2023). Your Voices: Best Practices Guide. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/view/your-voices-best-practices/

Witzig, K., & Castle, B. (Hosts). (2024). From the Fringes to the Foreground. Podcast. Spotify. Retrieved from https://open.spotify.com/episode/27mcuuG61lx5PlSgvIudie?si=LFQzLEt_TmGVvFvSXttV2A&nd=1&dlsi=f646c2de38e54c2b

Caron, C. (2024, October 31). Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/well/mind/librarian-trauma-homeless-drugs-mental-illness.html

Richland Library. (2024, December). Read to a Therapy Dog. Retrieved from https://www.richlandlibrary.com/event/2024-12-12/read-therapy-dog?form=MG0AV3

Filed under: Dr. Beth Patin, Dr. Dave Lankes, Dr. Mike Eisenberg, Season 5