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• 2024 Joint Georgia Libraries Conference with SGA

  • Start
    Wed, October 02, 2024
  • End
    Thu, October 17, 2024
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Athens, Georgia
  • Spaces left
    188

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  Please note: You must be logged into your GLA account with a current membership to register at the member rate. Registration button is at the bottom of the ticket list on the left side of the screen.
  

  Join us for the 2024 Joint GLC with SGA

  The Georgia Library Association and the Society of Georgia Archivists are co-hosting the joint Georgia Libraries Conference (GLC) and Society of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting. It will be held in-person October 2 - 4 , 2024, in Athens, GA. This conference is a place for our members and guests to showcase their professional and scholarly accomplishments with our profession at large.

  Our theme this year is "Leading Georgia Forward, Together." As the first joint conference for the Georgia Library Association and the Society of Georgia Archivists, this year's GLC is a special opportunity to celebrate and engage with leaders in the library and archive community whose work makes a positive impact across our state. Our featured keynote speaker for the joint conference will be Dr. Aisha Johnson (she/her), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Outreach at Georgia Institute of Technology Library, whose leadership and advocacy embody the important connections between libraries and archives. 
  
  While the conference will be held in person, it will continue to include a virtual component. This will be comprised of pre-recorded sessions and asynchronous Q&A sessions (see Session Format for more information). Virtual materials will be available October 15-17, 2024.

  Registration is now available.

  Hotel and lodging information is also located on this site.

  GLA Members will need to log in to the member portal for access to their member rates. If you need assistance with your GLA account, please contact memberservices@georgialibraryassociation.org.
  

  SGA Members will be provided with a code to enable registration at the appropriate member rate. If you need assistance, please reach out to the SGA Program Chair at program@soga.org.

  If you wish to register only for the virtual conference to be held October 15-17, a separate registration announcement will be sent at a later date.

  Registration Overview

  Registration options for the in-person 2024 Joint GLC with SGA include regular member rates, student/retiree/unemployed member rates, and non-member rates. An early bird discounted rate is available through September 6. Registrations after September 27 will pay an additional late registration fee. Registrations for the in-person conference will include access to the virtual conference as well.

  Conference attendance options include:

  early bird / standard / late	Regular Member Rates	Student/Retiree/Unemployed Member Rates	Non-Member Rates
  Full Conference - Wednesday PM through Friday AM	$225 / $240 / $255	$180 / $195 / $210	$270 / $285 / $300
  Wednesday PM through Thursday AM (new for 2024)	$150 / $160 / $170	$120 / $130 / $140	$180 / $190 / $200
  Thursday PM through Friday AM (new for 2024)	$150 / $160 / $170	$120 / $130 / $140	$180 / $190 / $200
  Wednesday Only	$75 / $80 / $85	$60 / $65 / $70	$90 / $95 / $100
  Thursday Only	$150 / $160 / $170	$120 / $130 / $140	$180 / $190 / $200
  Friday Only	$75 / $80 / $85	$60 / $65 / $70	$90 / $95 / $100
  Virtual Conference Only (10/15/24 - 10/17/24)	$25	$20	$30

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• Tour of Georgia Historical Society

  • When
    Tue, October 22, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Savannah, GA

  The Georgia Historical Society, the oldest continually operating historical society in the South and an important library/repository, is the next destination of GLA's coastal group!

  Join us at 3pm on Tuesday, October 22nd 2024 at the Georgia Historical Society, located in Savannah's historic district.  Our tour is limited to 20 participants, so please register here by Fri Oct 18th.

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• Responsibly Implementing AI in Libraries and Archives: Introducing a Decision-Making Tool for Practitioners

  • When
    Wed, October 30, 2024
  •  
    2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  The Georgia Library Association Carterette Series Webinars presents

  Responsibly Implementing AI in Libraries and Archives: Introducing a Decision-Making Tool for Practitioners

  Wednesday, October 30, 2024
  2pm Eastern (11am Pacific | 12pm Mountain | 1pm Central)
  Cost: Free

  Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in libraries and archives as a powerful tool for enhancing metadata, improving search and discovery, recommending resources, powering library chatbots, and more. However, AI systems also have the potential to cause social and ethical problems. AI may incorporate surveillance technologies that threaten user privacy, AI can provide misinformation that looks real, and AI reflects and amplifies the biases of our society due to biased training data.

  In response to these issues, the IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project has created a prototype tool that aims to guide practitioners through responsible implementation of AI. The prototype is based on new research conducted by the team, including a literature analysis, case studies, workshops with librarians and library users, and testing with library and archives practitioners. The tool takes the shape of a decision-making guide that incorporates LIS professional values such as Privacy and Consent, Resource Responsibility, Organizational Transparency, Literacy, and Access. The goal of the tool is to help practitioners implement AI in alignment with our professional values and reduce harm to our communities.
  
  During this webinar, members of the project team will discuss research results and introduce the prototype Responsible AI tool. The final version of the tool will be released in 2025.

  
  

  About the Presenters:Sara Mannheimer is Associate Professor and Data Librarian at Montana State University, where she helps shape practices and theories for data curation, data sharing, and data discovery. She provides data management resources and guidance for researchers, manages MSU Dataset Search, and is active in the Data Discovery Collaboration. Her research examines the social, ethical, and technical issues of a data-driven world. She is the Project Director of the IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries & Archives project.
  

  
  Yasmeen Shorish is a Professor and Director of Scholarly Communications Strategies at James Madison University Libraries. Her research focuses on epistemological justice in scholarly communications, data ethics and privacy, and the relationship between information access and power and privilege. She was part of the Mellon-funded Collections as Data: Part to Whole grant team, the IMLS-funded Responsible AI grant team, and serves on the ACRL Board of Directors and SPARC Steering Committee.
  

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  The session will be recorded and available on the Carterette Series Webinars site approximately 1 week after the live program.

  Contact a member of the Carterette Series planning team with questions or suggestions:
  carteretteserieswebinars@georgialibraryassociation.org

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