October 2024 – Page 2

The Generative AI Balancing Act: Considering Ethics in Relation to Progress

Publication date October 3, 2024
Categories: Research & Teaching
Categories: AI

a lone tree grows out of computer circuit board

Generative AI (GAI) has become part of the fabric of higher education. We discuss its use in instruction, research, and daily tasks. What is often left out of this conversation is the impacts of GAI on the environment and labor. These concerns are easy to overlook considering the separation between GAI processes and the user,…Continue Reading The Generative AI Balancing Act: Considering Ethics in Relation to Progress

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: September 2024

Publication date October 2, 2024
Categories: Digital Collections
Categories: TexTreasures2025

[Electric Theater and JCPenney, Springfield, Missouri], 1943, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In September 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 345 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 73 photographs and illustrations, ca. 1920s-1980s, from the J. C. Penney Company Records. Highlights include a series of photographs taken to show where the Kirksville, MO, store location was being expanded, including two images of the construction, and a photograph…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: September 2024