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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please see the message below from the CARLI Public Services Committee. I have added this to tomorrow’s agenda under #6 Announcements/Other Business. Annie and I will share
information back to them through their CARLI staff liaisons. Note that they are requesting responses by Sept. 27. Thanks for your consideration!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-Jessica
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings, CARLI Committee Leaders,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After a <a href="https://www.carli.illinois.edu/public-services-committee-ai-event">
successful program</a> this summer on generative AI and academic libraries, the Public Services Committee is exploring the feasibility of a CARLI-wide AI symposium for some time around April or May of 2025 that would cover a variety of concrete topics related
to AI and libraries. We are contacting you to see if your committee would be interested in pursuing this idea more.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If so,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. What programs/topics would your committee be interested in?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. What would be your preference for modality: in-person event or a Zoom webinar?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We think that this could have the potential to bring together CARLI Committees and library workers from diverse library positions. Examples of topics could be: using assistive AI for discovery of research sources, an overview of AI in commercial
products, AI tools for cataloging and other Technical Services processes, uses and/or information literacy of AI in library instruction, AI chatbots for Reference, and AI and patron privacy, racism, and ethics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let us know if you have any questions and respond by September 27 so that we may plan accordingly.<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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