Social Media Review and Strategy Update for 2024
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2M ago
Hey – check out my newest article in Computers in Libraries (Dec 23 edition) – “Social Media Review and Strategy Update for 2024.” In the article, I cover: Some social media stats for 2023 a very brief social media platform update Some Twitter/X alternatives (and the current weirdness of that platform) General trends for 2024 Impact and Application for Libraries Click the link and see what’s in store for 2024! PS – also check out the article AI and the Library Community: The Experts Are In, by Amy Affelt. It’s focused on the current state of AI in the library world, and it’s a good read (Am ..read more
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AI Art Project at the Library
David Lee King
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2M ago
My library has an art gallery … and earlier this year, they experimented with generative AI! Read the article on my library’s website for more info. The basics: library staff teamed up with Topeka Magazine, and played around with AI: They uploaded images of paintings into AI software and asked for a description of the image; then they used those descriptions to have Dall-E2 and Midjourney create AI-based art. The results? They’re currently on display at the library. Fun project! Here’s a link to Topeka Magazine, so you can read the article and find out a little more about the process and the ..read more
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Kansas License Plates … and Only Focusing on Internal Issues
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3M ago
Sometimes, Kansas makes the national news for the silliest things. This time, we made the news because of a poorly redesigned license plate (see the accompanying pic). The governor announced the change … and then 6 says later, announced that Kansas is re-thinking that! The new license plate design has some issues. It’s ugly (I think so, anyway). It apparently looks a bit like a New York license plate; it uses the University of Missouri’s colors (Kansas arch-rivals in sports); and it also reminds people of … Texas (i.e., the stars). It’s also a great example of how NOT to do something! Reading ..read more
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AI Poetry Project – Creative Writing using ChatGPT
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5M ago
Robot reading by Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash A few months ago, I was part of an AI poetry project, which culminated in an article in Topeka Magazine – It’s Not a (Beep! Beep!) Poet (and it doesn’t know it). The project team included me, a professor, the current poet laureate of Kansas, and a local writer. My part was fun! My job for the project was to use ChatGPT and generate some AI-written poetry. You’d think that would be easy, right? Just prompt ChatGPT to “write some poetry” (which it can do). But we were a bit more specific than that. We wanted six poems, which i ..read more
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Can The News come from a library?
David Lee King
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7M ago
I read this article (found via infoDOCKET) earlier this week and found it pretty interesting! Could a local library … that’s already a community hub … that people trust … also be the place for local news? The article definitely shows that it could be a possibility! From the article, it looks like some libraries have done some limited experiments to show that it can, in fact, work. Heck – my library has talked about doing some form of that (in passing – no actual projects!). But it kinda makes sense. Many libraries already focus on a community’s history. They even keep a vertical file of inter ..read more
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Can The News come from a library?
David Lee King
by David Lee King
7M ago
I read this article (found via infoDOCKET) earlier this week and found it pretty interesting! Could a local library … that’s already a community hub … that people trust … also be the place for local news? The article definitely shows that it could be a possibility! From the article, it looks like some libraries have done some limited experiments to show that it can, in fact, work. Heck – my library has talked about doing some form of that (in passing – no actual projects!). But it kinda makes sense. Many libraries already focus on a community’s history. They even keep a vertical file of inter ..read more
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Librarians as AI Prompt Engineers
David Lee King
by David Lee King
7M ago
AI-generated image of a librarian! I heard about an interesting new job while at Computers in Libraries 2023 (great conference, by the way!) – an AI prompt engineer. What’s a prompt engineer? Here’s a description (from Computer Hope): The idea of a “prompt engineer” came in response to AI text and image generators, which people noticed would produce higher-quality content when users give specifically-phrased prompts, as opposed to just asking naturally. The title describes people who are supposedly skilled at selecting the right phrasing so that AI tools generate the most accurate and relevan ..read more
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Are We There Yet? Conversation with Paul Signorelli
David Lee King
by David Lee King
7M ago
I had a fun conversation recently with Paul Signorelli as part of Arizona State University’s ASU ShapingEDU | Are We There Yet? Capturing the Evolving New Now in Learning discussions. We touched on a lote of topics, mostly around Covid and post-covid best practices – topics like what my library did during the pandemic, broadband in our county and the library’s response to that, what new services appeared, and my library’s digital branch. Anyway – fun conversation with a good friend and colleague. Watch it and share! The post Are We There Yet? Conversation with Paul Signorelli first appeared o ..read more
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3 AI Tools to Check Out (plus 1 bonus!)
David Lee King
by David Lee King
7M ago
Yes folks, the AI chatbot era has hit, big time. Some of you have been playing with ChatGPT, which has made a huge splash in recent months. It does a good enough job of writing things (i.e., student research papers, etc) that the company has also released a tool that can tell if a chunk of text was written by AI or by an actual person. All that to say – this version of AI is a pretty big deal, and one that you need to pay attention to. I think there’s the potential for AI to change a bunch of stuff in our lives; certainly a bunch of stuff related to our jobs. Including how we search the web ..read more
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Playing with ChatGPT
David Lee King
by David Lee King
7M ago
Have you played with ChatGPT yet? I’ve been doing that the last couple of weeks. It’s fun! First – if you’re not familiar with ChatGPT – it’s basically an AI chatbot that is very conversational, and seems … well … pretty smart. Ask it questions, and it will provide a (usually) pretty good response! Here are some examples of questions I’ve recently asked ChatGPT. The first thing I asked it to do was to write a blog post about my library (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library). It created an accurate, nicely-written blog post, describing my library. Last week at a conference, I was talking ..read more
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