At Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, we celebrate the many contributions of the faculty and staff who make the Libraries the destination for scholarly information, creative inquiry, and intellectual collaboration across disciplines, propelling the significance, reach, and impact of the university.
Research Information Management Services Director Jason Glenn has been appointed to the executive board of Expert Finder Systems International Forum (EFS) for the 2026-2027 executive board term. The organization is a forum for and an advocate of the expert finder and research information management systems community of practice. The objective of the organization is to provide leadership to advance learning, research, scholarly communication, information management, and professional practice for the development, promotion, and improvement of expertise and research information systems and related software and platforms.
Evidence Synthesis Postdoctoral Associate Erin Higgins received an honorable mention for a fellowship with the better scientific software institute to develop a series of library workshops to support research software engineering skill development. The program will run for a year and provide networking opportunities for her to meet with other individuals interested in supporting research software development as well as meeting with NSF program officers.
STEM Librarian Huajin Wang was named the new Member-at-Large of the AAAS Section X (Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering) Steering Committee. During her appointment as a section leader, she will help promote science communication and policy conversations across sectors, make Section X a more inclusive place, and mobilize broader communities, including academic libraries, in science advocacy conversations.
Research Data Services Librarian Alfredo González-Espinoza, Library AI Infrastructure Resident Dom Jebbia, and STEM Librarian Haoyong Lan recently published a paper titled “Metadata Augmentation using NLP, Machine Learning and AI chatbots: A comparison” in the Journal of Library Metadata.