Brown Bag Lunch Series

2023 presentations

• Not That Kind Of AI : Red Flags in PubMed's shift to Automated (Algorithmic) Indexing
  (December 8, 2023)
  Facilitated by Krista Alexander, Applied Human Sciences, Biochemistry/Chemistry and Physics Subject Librarian
  
  Alexandre Amar-Zifkin, librarian for Vision Sciences, Neurosciences and Dentistry at the University of Montreal, presented on automated indexing in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's public interface to Medline, which has recently shifted from human indexing to algorithmic, automated indexing.
• Library Advocates: Fighting for Fair eBook Lending
  (October 5, 2023)
  Facilitated by Ellen Wright, Media Cataloguing Librarian, and Krista Alexander, Applied Human Sciences, Biochemistry/Chemistry and Physics Subject Librarian
  
  Elena Rowan presented on her master's thesis research in sociology, on eBook licenses in public libraries, in terms of platform and publisher power, changing property rights, and how librarians and library advocacy groups are fighting back in Canada and internationally.
  
• Instruction and Pedagogy Session
  (May 10, 2023)
  Facilitated by Aeron MacHattie, Teaching & Research Librarian
  Manasvini Narayana from the Centre for Teaching and Learning presented her research on students' digital habits and the ways that understanding these habits these might affect instruction and pedagogy.
  
• Conference re-cap
  (March 15, 2023)
  Facilitated by Larry Deck, Systems Librarian
  Presentations by Pat Riva (IFLA WLIC), Sarah Lake (iPres), Christine Smith (Equity-Centered Library Leadership), and Éthel Gamache (Evidence Synthesis Institute Canada)
  
• Journey Through the Stacks: Illustrated Travelogues and the Orientalist Imagination
  (February 22, 2023)
  Facilitated by Aeron MacHattie, Teaching & Research Librarian
  Presentation and Q&A with library exhibition curator and Concordia Library Researcher-in-Residence, Stéphanie Hornstein