AI Fluency and libraries: opportunities, capabilities and challenges

Over the past year, artificial intelligence has hit a tipping point. AI tools aren’t just an experiment, they’re transforming industries and workplaces whether we choose to use them or not. Which means that you should choose to use them. As leaders in information management and information literacy, libraries play a key role in promoting effective use of these tools. In this session, Professor Kai Riemer and Dr Pat Norman, from Sydney Executive Plus at the University of Sydney, will discuss why AI fluency is the most critical skill for the next decade, and challenge you to think about what AI means in your context.

This is the first in a planned series of ALIA webinars exploring developments in AI and their impact on libraries.

Presented by Kai Riemer Professor of Information Technology and Organisation and Head of the Business Information Systems Discipline at the University of Sydney Business School, and Dr Pat Norman Senior Research Officer, Sydney Executive Plus at the University of Sydney Business School.

28 June 2023

12:00pm – 1:00pm

AEST, Zoom

ALIA Members: Free Non-members: $30

Webinar Series

The ALIA Career Starter Kit: Preparing and applying for the library job you want

Zoom

ALIA Members: Free Non-members: $30 per webinar or $100 for 4

This is an introductory series of 4 webinars, that together provide a thorough guide for job seekers. Aimed at students, new graduates, or those who feel they aren’t progressing in their current job, it will assist participants to find their place in the complex world of libraries, to understand the current and emerging needs of this world, and to position themselves in a competitive and dynamic job market.

• Webinar 1: Job roles and job descriptions: demystifying the complex world of library work – 16 May 2023

• Webinar 2: Identifying opportunities –4 July 2023

• Webinar 3: The written application –5 September 2023

• Webinar 4: The interview – 8 November 2023

Train me to Train you

1 – 28 August 2023, Zoom

ALIA Members: $365 | Non-members: $510

Cataloguing for beginners

22 August – 18 September 2023, Zoom

ALIA Members: $365 | Non-members: $510

Classification: Library of Congress subject headings

17 October – 6 November 2023, Zoom

ALIA Members: $325 | Non-members: $445

Digital Trends – what’s happening now

7 – 27 November 2023, Zoom

ALIA Members: $325 | Non-members: $445

This course provides an introduction to training methods focusing on developing self-confidence presenting to others, communication skills, planning a training session (the logical sequence and timing of tasks, and developing resources), delivering a training session, and evaluation of training sessions.

The library catalogue is a list of resources to which a library can provide access and is an important finding tool for users. This beginner’s course will help you:

• identify the types of information in a catalogue record

• understand how a catalogue record is created

• understand how to use this knowledge to increase your searching success in bibliographic databases

Subject headings are controlled lists of terms or phrases used to describe the subject content of items in library catalogues and databases in a consistent way.

Digital trends today are tomorrow’s reality. What we thought was a theory or notion is part of our day to day. Think of the 3D printer now used in many libraries. Regardless of the size or type of information service digital trends have had an impact and caused change.