Study Group Session 94: General Question and Answer
- Diana Borges
Session Notes
Diana Borges, OCLS - Discussion forum posts since last session
Liana Giovando, OCLS: Resource Sharing Update
hold off on reaching out to universities until we can get a larger partnership with all of the schools at once and involve library leadership
RSWG has been working on digital and electronic resource sharing
Digitization locally:
will share a copy of those instructions in early December (Dec 2) as a soft launch and have everyone review them/work on them.
Opportunity for questions at Dec 4 Study Group
Demo in January
also working on instructions for digital and electronic resource sharing:
these will not be released until 2025
looking into licensing/copyright risks and coming up with a more strategic plan for that portion of the project
Stacey Boileau, OCLS: testing chat issue
Alyssa Kuehner lost access to the chat - shared screenshot with Stacey
Diana:
Stacey will follow up with OCAS
Terri Duff, Fleming: error with Proquest databases
Can you let me know if you get an error?
go to your database and sign in
search for "scary side of strep" or something from Proquest
choose the Proquest option. Ours is Canadian Business
open the article
close the article and then reopen it
wait a few seconds and see if an error box pops up
No issues: Lambton, Mohawk, Conestoga, St Lawrence, St Clair, Fanshawe
the URL temporarily showed "intermediateredirectforezproxy" at the end for Fanshawe
Terri: not getting this at Fleming, will follow up with Proquest
Jennifer Horwath, Mohawk: New Title Search UI
new title search UI - not seeing it under new feature rollout in Alma
Erin Williams, Fanshawe: release has been pushed to December
Jennifer Horwath, has anyone rolled out Primo Research Assistant in their live environment?
Conestoga, Fleming, Fanshawe have not
Lingling Jiang, Sheridan:
We have a small team established to do some evaluations first
had a first meeting, set up an evaluation matrix - a list internally for the small team to make a Go or No Go decision
if decide to Go, will include more staff in the evaluation process
also considering need to talk to the management team about the decision
will enabling this AI impact information literacy for students, especially for new students - as developing your search strategy is very important for information literacy?
tool is actually in the early development stages, not very mature (e.g. only shows search results from CDI, not your local holdings), so the team is considering whether they should wait until Ex Libris has local holdings included
Jennifer: that’s one downside for me, that it won’t be full text
Lingling:
Clarivate is trying to promote AI products
Lingling attended a couple of webinars on it and the product manager was uncertain, could not provide clear answers about it
it feels experimental and so the team is considering whether to be in a hurry to release these experiments to the students or faculty as that could cause confusion/harm service in unexpected ways
Stacey:
at the community of practice meeting folks were talking about how it is in experimental stages and there is not a lot of clarity about it
there is a cost associated with AI derived data
unclear whether with move to NDE, Primo research assistant will be a part of that and if it will be possible to opt out
does it also not include NZ records?
Lingling:
only look at CDI at this moment
doesn’t reflect local or NZ holdings
asked Ex Libris if they have any cost that would be imposed because it is now free to use and they mentioned that they might introduce hourly/daily limits for questions
Stacey:
Consortia community of practice was talking about it
a university in Switzerland had done dome research and decided not to roll it out yet:
search queries in languages other than English are not as big
obvious biases in how sources are selected - not all the time
some errors with misinterpreting abstracts
Recording
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