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 […]

As library professionals, we juggle a variety of responsibilities—curating collections, managing projects, engaging with communities, and navigating the rapid evolution of technology. With the increasing reliance on digital tools, automation, and emerging technologies, it can be challenging to stay aligned with your personal and professional goals while keeping pace with innovation. In this webinar, we’ll […]

Google Forms is awesome, but you already knew that. It’s great how responses feed directly into a spreadsheet for easy access and analysis. You can create assessments, surveys, checkout forms, and quizzes. You can also poll colleagues, collect information from users, and keep logs. If you dig into the settings, you can do even more! […]

In a time of "deep fakes", hallucinating chatbots and alarm that AI will take our jobs, how do librarians address the challenge and opportunities of AI tools? Mary Ellen Bates will discuss some of the techniques librarians can use to leverage the "intelligence" of AI while avoiding the pitfalls of relying on an algorithm to […]