[Discovery_PVE_Comm] CARLI Public Services Committee inquiry about AI Symposium interest

[Gibson, Jessica]

Hello, everyone!
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!
-Jessica



Greetings, CARLI Committee Leaders,

After a successful program<https://www.carli.illinois.edu/public-services-committee-ai-event> 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.

If so,
1. What programs/topics would your committee be interested in?
2. What would be your preference for modality: in-person event or a Zoom webinar?

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.

Please let us know if you have any questions and respond by September 27 so that we may plan accordingly.

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