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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">NOTSL will hold its Fall Meeting, November 22, 2024 virtually via Zoom.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Join us for the Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL) Fall General Meeting: Byte-Sized Libraries: AI in Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Beyond. Terry
Reese, Head of Digital Initiatives and Digital Integrations at The Ohio State University Libraries, will be the Keynote speaker. This session will discuss how tools using Generative AI are impacting the development and management of bibliographic data.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nat Gustafson-Sundell, Collections Librarian, & Evan Rusch, Reference Librarian, from Minnesota State University, Mankato will present “An overview of Generative
AI experiments at Minnesota State University, Mankato (so far).” This session will cover several experiments and initiatives focused on Generative Artificial Intelligence. We provided several examples at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) conference. We
will present a revised and expanded overview of our experiments at the Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL) Fall General Meeting. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jeannette Mazur, Electronic Services Content Analyst, will present “AI and cataloging: The good, the bad and the Ugly.” Key topics include AI Basics, creating MARC
records with AI, and future AI improvements to the OPAC. The potential pitfalls are also examined, such as the costs of AI OPACs, the expertise required for implementation, and the ongoing need to manage hallucinations and biases.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Several librarians from New York University, will present “Knowledge Access AI Study Group: A Space for Learning about AI and Assessing Its Impact on Metadata.” This
session includes three brief demos, showcasing the lightning talks from the AI Study Group, which was established to demystify AI and understand its impact on the metadata operations through reading, testing. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Registration is now open for “Byte-Sized Libraries: AI in Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Beyond.” All are welcome; membership is conferred on all attendees.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Visit NOTSL’s
</span><a href="http://www.notsl.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">website</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (</span><a href="http://www.notsl.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">www.NOTSL.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)
for full program information and to </span><a href="https://notsl-byte-sized-libraries.eventbrite.com"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">register</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#C00000">Leslie Kimble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Technical Services Manager<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Warren-Trumbull County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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