Abstracts

Open Innovation Learning Lab: Launching Students with Curricular & Co-curricular Project Based Learning

Libraries are crucial open learning infrastructure elevating curricular and co-curricular student experiences that better prepare students and their portfolios for future careers. This presentation describes innovative project based learning at Cal Poly Humboldt Library, and details a variety of strategies for applied research and skill development. Engaging students in real-world projects has tremendous value to launch careers and new ways of learning, the adaptable strategies include; Library Scholar Internships, Student Employment, Events, and more. 

Ask Alex Humboldt

The Ask Alex Humboldt project, a Library and ITS project aims to expand opportunities for AI research and education to explore connecting academic and citizen science to create a strategic open science interactive learning platform called Community Science Library. This presentation focuses on the pipeline created to leverage our Digital Commons institutional repository as a RAG  vector database with connections to an open large language model. Presentation includes the current status of the project, and objectives for adding content and interactives to create an immersive learning environment that meaningfully connects academic and community science information with open educational resources.