Prompt Engineering for Librarians: Unlocking AI for Next-Level Library Services

As AI tools like ChatGPT become essential, librarians must harness them effectively. This webinar explores prompt engineering—the art of crafting prompts to optimize AI results—and introduces agentic AI, systems capable of autonomously completing tasks, examining their potential for automating processes and personalizing services.

Key Takeaways:

Reference Services: Seamlessly integrate AI to enhance virtual reference, balancing human expertise with AI assistance.

– Engaging Communications: Create impactful emails, newsletters, and marketing materials.
– Career Support: Assist patrons with resumes and job applications.
– AI Literacy: Teach users to evaluate AI content and identify misinformation.
– Stakeholder Engagement: Use AI to develop proposals and pitches.
– Promote Diversity: Leverage AI for collection development and diversity audits.
– Customer Service Training: Simulate challenging patron interactions for skill-building.

The session covers best practices for ethical AI use, ensuring librarians can confidently guide users in this evolving landscape. Whether focusing on reference, collection development, or marketing, this webinar will empower you to unlock AI’s potential for library innovation.

Presentr: Kira Smith is a Virtual Reference Specialist for Florida’s Ask A Librarian service. She also coordinates the statewide delivery service which provides pickup and delivery of interlibrary loan materials among over 200 libraries through Florida. Recently, she served as researcher for the book, “Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction”. She has Master’s Degrees in Library Science and Education from the University of South Florida and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Tulane University. Kira is a former elementary school teacher and childbirth educator. She enjoys teaching, technology and travel.

The recording and handouts will be available on Niche Academy after the live event as well as our library of over 700 recorded sessions. To access Niche, go to: https://my.nicheacademy.com/floridalibrarywebinars

In addition, this session will be available to stream as a podcast.

Register here via Zoom for the live event or through the link below.