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Category Archives: Artificial intelligence
Slow Librarianship in the Age of Generative AI
I recently re-read Julia Glassman’s 2017 essay The Innovation Fetish and Slow Librarianship: What Librarians can Learn from the Juicero in which Glassman analogizes the Juicero startup blunder with the race to innovate in libraries and academia. Juicero is often … Continue reading
Critical & Adaptable: Teaching the Legal Researchers of the Future
A quandary I faced this past semester teaching my advanced legal research (ALR) course was how to help my students develop critical technology skills without scaring them into never using technology. This was especially difficult due to the rapid changes … Continue reading
Chatting About Chat: How Are You Starting to Incorporate AI LLMs into Legal Research Classes?
While we already have been using AI in legal research for quite a while – I am looking at you, natural language search – there is now a whole Next Level. AI LLMs are popping up like mushrooms after a … Continue reading
Law Students Have An Information Literacy Problem. That Spells Trouble for the Age of Generative AI.
As the age of generative legal AI has dawned on us all, discussions about student AI policies and how to teach with these new tools are still just beginning. From the work I see other law librarians doing, I would … Continue reading
Guest Post: AI is Coming for our Classrooms! A Survival Guide for the AI Apocalypse
This is a guest post by Kristin McCarthy, Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law, New England Law In late December, Lexis+ announced that it would make its generative AI tool available to 100,000 second- and third-year … Continue reading
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