Maria's Hyperlinked Literary Garden

Hyperlinked Environments: AI Technology and Its Uses in the Academic Library https://aiuniverseexplorer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2818e12d-010e-46cf-869f-e4991e6a9003.jpg The more I read about AI, the more confused I get. At the rate that AI is changing, I am not sure I will ever get caught up. When I start understanding a few aspects, they change on me. As an academic librarian, I feel completely lost on how to train our students to use AI tools. I understand how to train the students to be responsible in their use of AI, but at the same time, AI is being integrated into so many applications that it is hard to keep up. At present, you can still choose…

https://content.presentermedia.com/content/clipart/00026000/26159/holding_hands_circle_unity_300_nwm.jpg Hyperlinked Community Blog Post @mariahaeflinger here I really liked the statement, “Hyperlinks are people too” (Stephens, 2025, Module 5, slide 5).  So often, we as librarians think our world is all about resources. We have to remember that without people, we would not need the resources. We all need each other, and we need to work together to meet each other’s needs. We do not need to agree on everything, but if we can work together and respect each other, we can accomplish much. On a flip thought, we can use people as resources too. As I read the material for this week and tried to apply it to…

I have been gleaning a lot so far in this course, but I am still wondering how to best integrate what I am learning into my present Librarian position. I am a Solo Librarian for Family of Faith Christian University, which offers programs that are solely online. I work in a physical library that holds 20,000 physical resources that are not being physically used by our present online students on a regular basis. I do occasionally have to mail a resource on loan out to a student or scan a chapter of a physical resource I have on campus for a student in another country, where they do not have…

A Little about me: My name is Maria Haeflinger. I have held the Librarian title at Family of Faith Christian University in Shawnee, OK, for 12 years now. Our university is fully online, which makes me the online SOLO Librarian for about 350 students from all over the world. I had to think of what hyperlinked library means in its truest sense. I have not included social media or anything outside of the typical links-based platform for our library thus far. I have heard of libraries having Blogs and Library chat lines, as well as other features, but I have not been overly interested in them. My student base seems…