Artificial Intelligence and Metaphor

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by John Jordan, UWM Dept. of Communication New technologies like AI require metaphors for understanding. But these metaphors do more than provide context; they shape and steer people’s attitudes and future policies. We can learn much about AI by …

Workshop: Python for Beginners

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries, and Karl Holten, UWM Libraries and L&S IT. This 2-day workshop will cover the basics of learning how to program using Python for data analysis. Based on the curriculum for the Software Carpentries “Programming …

The Future of Humanities Publishing: Panel Discussion and Workshop

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Universities and their affiliated publishing landscapes continue to change rapidly. In the arts and humanities, presses, libraries, and humanities centers have all played different roles in publishing and dissemination. Open access and community-engaged efforts continue to redefine our work. How …

Workshop: Building Digital Essays Using Juncture and IIIF

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries. Juncture is an open-source framework to build multimedia exhibits that enables authors to build simple or complex narratives, building on other open tools. Tap into existing digital collections and incorporate high resolution images, zooming capabilities, …

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A Conversation

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Tomas Lipinski, UWM School of Information Studies. Join us to discuss the problematic area where intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence cross paths: from the mining of data to feed large language models, to issues of attribution and …

Information Literacy Research Assignment Workshop   

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Research assignments serve an important role in college courses. Tasks like selecting and evaluating additional sources of information, summarizing new information and comparing it to core course concepts all have the potential to build learning. However, the goals of a research assignment are …