<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.niso.org/events/2019/06/two-part-webinar-discovery-and-online-search" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">NISO Two Part Webinar, Discovery and Online Search</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Wednesdays, June
12, and June 19, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (Eastern Time)</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">We all know that
automated personal assistants can find you the closest gas station or sushi
spot. But can that same technology be programmed to find the best ten articles
for a student’s assignment? The capability is unclear, as is the advisability
of the task. But what<em> is</em> clear
is that voice-driven technology as well as arbitrary algorithms are changing
the ways in which users may be driving or directed in their information tasks.
Taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and similar tools have been used for
decades in delivering effective online search. But now, with Alexa and Siri
potentially being in the room, shouldn’t libraries and vendors be talking about
what’s operating under the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">hood?
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Wednesday, June 12, Part One: Drivers of Change in
Online Search</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Confirmed speakers </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">include: </span><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Jim Hahn</span></strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">, University of Illinois; <strong>Kelly
Dagan</strong>, Amherst College; <b>Chad
Mairn</b>, St. Petersburg College.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Here’s what those
speakers will be addressing in Part One:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><i>Student perspectives on personalized
account-based recommender systems in libraries</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">A
personalized account-based recommender was developed in the University of
Illinois Library's mobile app interface. The recommender system (RS) was
derived from data mining topic clusters of items that are checked out together.
Using the library mobile RS as a prompt to understand student preferences for
personalized account-based RS, structured interviews were undertaken and
analyzed thematically to determine RS features and functionality desired. In
the interviews, students described their perceptions of RS, together with
features and functionality desired. Students indicated that they desired data
stewardship and sharing levels, which provided valuable input into matters of
system transparency pertaining to recommendations derived algorithmically. An
unexpected finding from students was growing unease with aspects of
surveillance capitalism. Academic library recommenders can distinguish
themselves from commercial recommenders in several ways, including increased
transparency beyond what is available in commercial systems, and by attending
to the level of student privacy, and data retention a system design issue.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><i>Alexa, get me the
articles: user experience and voice interfaces in academia</i></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Our users in academia are influenced
by larger interface trends; what becomes common practice shapes user
expectations. With the rise of voice assistants and other voice-controlled
interfaces in our daily lives, user hopes and expectations are potentially
shifting when it comes to the academic experience. I’ll discuss some of the
overall themes driving how users engage with voice-controlled and discovery
environments and associated user hopes for what voice-controlled interfaces
could achieve. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><i>Introducing How to Build
a Personal Voice Assistant</i></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">On many levels, we are starting to
see our society transformed because of artificial intelligence. One example is
voice-controlled interfaces, sometimes referred to as personal voice assistants
or digital assistants, where computers and humans are interacting in a variety
of ways to accomplish certain tasks. In fact, experts reveal that by 2020 there
will be 50 billion connected devices interacting with and reporting data in
real-time via the “Internet of Things” network. In this webinar, learn the
ins-and-outs of how a Google Voice AIY kit was assembled to use artificial
intelligence (machine learning, natural language processing etc.) to power a
personal voice assistant via Google’s Cloud Speech-to-Text and other services.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Wednesday, June 19, </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Part
Two: Personalized Content, Personal Data</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Confirmed speakers include: <b>Bob
Kasenchak</b>, Access Innovations; <b>Scott Young</b>, Montana State
University; <b>Amanda Wheatley </b>and <b>Sandy Hervieux, </b>McGill University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">NOTE: NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members automatically
receive access to <i>both sessions</i> of
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in your registration fee, regardless of membership status.</span></p>
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