NASIG Autumn 2024

Discover how Taskade, an AI-powered productivity platform, revolutionizes team and individual workflows. This session will showcase Taskade’s seamless integration of task organization, project specifications, workflow automation, and team collaboration into a single, intuitive platform. Learn how to effortlessly set up workspaces, manage tasks, and enhance teamwork for daily to-do lists or complex library projects. Join me to explore how Taskade can streamline your productivity and transform your work processes, no matter the size of your team.

This lightning talk will discuss a collaboration between a research group at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and its Health Sciences and Human Services library to ingest ~300 reports into the University's digital repository. The reports and their descriptive metadata originally lived in a database designed by the research group. This talk will review the migration of the reports and metadata into the digital repository. It will primarily focus on the challenges around meeting the specific discovery needs of a research group with the broader parameters of an established digital repository.

Explore Goldey-Beacom College's inaugural Common Reading Program, featuring Kristen Radtke’s graphic novel, Seek You. Discover how students created visual expressions of the novel’s themes, blending traditional and AI-generated art. Learn about the integration of these works into the library’s digital asset management system, Quartex, and the implications for future digital archiving practices. This session will highlight the innovative use of AI in student artwork and the library's role in preserving these creations.

Among many electronic resources acquisition tasks, ensuring accurate titles for what libraries pay for involves comparing lists from publishers, previous years, and subscription agents. However, discrepancies within these lists pose a challenge, often requiring time-consuming manual comparison. To address this issue, the presenter envisioned developing a tool capable of efficiently comparing title lists and generating differential outputs. Crucially, they aimed to design the tool with user-friendliness in mind, making it accessible to colleagues with varying levels of technical expertise.
By harnessing the capabilities of ChatGPT/Copilot, they developed a user-friendly tool capable of automating reconciliation tasks. This tool simplifies the comparison process, enabling swift identification of differences between title lists. Its intuitive interface ensures ease of use for all users, regardless of their programming knowledge or experience.

Since the 1990s, pre-coordinated subject headings—long text strings comprising individual terms connected by double dashes (--) in the order of [topic] -- [place] -- [chronology] -- [form]—have been created in MARC records. Although these headings have been well-retained in the MARC environment, they introduce multiple discovery challenges in digital collections, where records are aggregated from both MARC and non-MARC environments. This session outlines the issues identified in the Florida Digital Digital Collections, details the workflow used to address them with MarcEdit and OpenRefine (two free data tools), and advocates for cataloging practices that consider needs beyond the original environment.

This presentation explores how AI can empower individuals without coding knowledge to write code, unlocking new opportunities and enhancing their ability to support their institutions. By leveraging AI for coding assistance, individuals can automate daily tasks, enhance collections, and develop solutions to simplify and expedite repetitive cataloging. This allows more time for improving metadata quality. Discover how AI can revolutionize your workflows and increase your impact within your organization.