ACC Library Services: The Future of Public and Social Services: Digital Literacy & Fluency

As faculty, we need to design our courses to improve the digital literacy of our students and therefore improve their ability to effectively communicate, manage, and lead public service organizations. This article examines an undergraduate course called Community Organizations in a Digital World that responds to the new demands for innovations in nonprofit organizations.

On TikTok and in virtual hangouts, a younger generation is sharing the origins and nuances of Black American Sign Language, a rich variation of ASL that scholars say has been overlooked for too long.

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate; they’re using it to transform American Sign Language.

This article explores the impact of technology on Deaf culture, and how it is shaping the future of Deaf identity.

Digital media is effecting rapid change in American Sign Language.

Interviews with 12 emergency operation center controllers, from diverse areas of New Zealand, were analyzed suggesting that each center uses one or more software options to manage response-related information, such as: hazard assessments, task and event logs, and intelligence received in a range of formats. Their use of different software and non-electronic options appears to vary according to the experience of each emergency management controller.

How to incorporate AI into your day to day emergency planning.

This bibliometric study provides unique insights into the role of digital technologies in the emergency management of public health. It provides research guidance for smart emergency management of global public health emergencies.

Reviews existing data analysis and visualization techniques and their applications for COVID-19 and future pandemic management with respect to four phases (namely, Response, Recovery, Mitigation, and Preparation) in disaster management. Data sources utilized in these studies and specific data acquisition and integration techniques for COVID-19 are also summarized. Furthermore, open issues and future directions for data-driven pandemic management are discussed.

Substance abuse treatment via telepsychiatry expeditiously increased with the start of the pandemic and has brought changes to its rules and regulations. In this study, we focused on the prognosis of substance abuse patients treated with telepsychiatry, the various changes that occurred during the pandemic, and the difficulties faced by clinicians using telepsychiatry. We concluded that telepsychiatry use for substance abuse patients increased during the pandemic, and the prognosis of these patients treated with telepsychiatry was similar to that of in-person treatment. However, a combination of telepsychiatry with in-person sessions showed much better results.

Reinforcing the need and potential to incorporate SBIRT training into higher education curricula for interprofessional health care professions to begin expanding the integrated care team's knowledge and efficacy in the provision of SBIRT to address the treatment gap.

Article discuss the impact of AI on the law profession.

Article discuss the impact of AI on the law profession.

An overview of the challenges presented by ChatGPT and other AI tools to social work students and instructors and how best to prepare students for a post AI world.

The importance of developing AI training into social work curriculum.

Survey study of social work students' attitudes toward and knowledge of law enforcement, privacy rights, and digital technology.

Discusses the prominance of information and communication technology in social work post Covid-19 and the importance of incorporating these technologies in social work education.

"This article discusses a framework for training social work students to
effectively engage in practice with technology throughout their careers."

Discusses human-robot interfaces, ease of use, and training required to work with these technologies.

Augmented and virtual reality technologies aren’t just for video games. For the fire service, they could supplement live training and provide access to a galaxy of firefighting scenarios, from electric vehicle fires to oil spills. But cutting-edge tech doesn’t come cheap.

Virtual reality (VR) research has gone through rapid advances and the technology has established itself as a valuable training tool in many domains. While research in the field of emergency response, and more specifically in the field of firefighting, is still catching up, the future potential of VR technology for training is promising. This paper uses the SWOT framework to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats immersive VR technology faces in the field of firefighter training.

The case study shows VR can be used to recreate even the most complex scenarios and surroundings, even those of the firefight in confined spaces where enclosed fires tend to appear and have been considered vastly hazardous for not only civilians or equipment but also to firefighters dispatched to contain them.