Our resource hub contains key post event content and highlights from the 2024 sessions.
In our opening keynote presentation, Luba Pirgova-Morgan shares insights from the recent report ‘Looking Towards a Brighter Future: The Potentiality of AI and Digital Transformations to Library Spaces’. Luba will set out AI’s potential for transforming and personalizing library services whilst balancing the need for responsible and ethical AI implementation and alignment with the core mission and value of libraries. Specifically, she will cover the library’s evolving role in providing AI-related content, procuring resources, maintaining data quality and support for AI tools. Finally, Luba will highlight recommendations for AI applications within libraries and offer context-specific guidance for future development.
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in learning and research has built up momentum over the years. But what impact is it having on our community and what are the opportunities and potential threats for librarians, publishers, students and researchers?
This panel debate will discuss making the most of AI while considering ethics. We’ll also discuss the balancing of values relating to AI, skills, ways of working and what may become the future.
Unlock the secrets to seamless OpenAthens configuration with expert guidance! Discover how to effortlessly set up your library’s subscribed resources for optimal access. With hundreds of resources listed in the Resource Catalogue, integrating them with OpenAthens is a breeze. Simply provide your federation identifiers to the provider and you’re good to go. Even SAML resources not in the Catalogue are relatively straightforward to configure. However, challenges arise when resources don’t yet support SAML. Fear not! OpenAthens offers a managed proxy service to bridge the gap, though the effort required can vary. Watch as our speakers share their firsthand experiences of implementing OpenAthens as a robust authentication solution.
AI can offer many benefits to research libraries and their users – but it’s important to be aware of the risks
Do the benefits outweigh the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in libraries? This was one of the hot topics covered at our Access Lab 2024 event.
At the conference, we learned that AI has many benefits – but also limitations that librarians should understand.
From discovery tools to content digitization, librarians are exploring the uses of AI in libraries. But seamless access to original content will remain critical
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have become buzzwords, driven by the popularity of chatbots such as ChatGPT.
So at this year’s Access Lab, speakers and panelists discussed the uses of AI in libraries – alongside the drawbacks.
Keynote speaker Dr Luba Pirgova-Morgan, research fellow at the University of Leeds in the UK, said research shows AI can be like a “library superhero”. And she also said it’s important to address risks, which include privacy and bias.
Our award for best publisher user experience puts the spotlight on those publishers that strive to put their users at the heart of their service design with the simple aim of giving users easy access to their content.
The award builds on our ongoing commitment to drive forward innovation in the information industry and to make access to knowledge as easy as possible for end users.
The 2024 winner was announced during Access Lab.
A distinguished former systems librarian, Emily Singley joined Elsevier in the new role of vice president North American library relations in October 2022. With her insider knowledge of what makes librarians tick, she’s building alliances that will improve the library user’s experience (UX). In her keynote at Access Lab 2023 she explained more about the benefits of vendor and librarian partnerships.