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AI IG meetup Tomorrow, Dec 11 at 2pm EST - Lightning Talks & Subgroups

  • 1.  AI IG meetup Tomorrow, Dec 11 at 2pm EST - Lightning Talks & Subgroups

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    Hi everyone,

    Hopefully your ALA Connect settings allowed you to receive the Event Invitation to our next AI Interest Group Meetup: Tomorrow, Thursday, Dec 11 at 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST).  Zoom link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83141631658 . We're looking forward to seeing you all!

    Full Zoom connection information on this AI IG Event page via ALA Connect 

    Our Agenda will include:

    • Welcome! [5 min]

    • Lightning Talks [15-20 min]
      • Socratic Tutoring with Chatbots
        • Griffin Engel, Adjunct Librarian, DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College)
      • Building an Ebook Usage Prediction Model with AI
        • David Arredondo, Collections Services Librarian, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney

    • Subgroups Discussion [20-25 min]
      • What are AI IG Subgroups? 
      • Support for Subgroups
      • Subgroup interest areas proposed so far:
        • Advanced prompting and/or agent creation - Griffin Engel
        • Academic research about AI led/conducted by academic librarians - Brianna Hughes
        • Additional subgroup topic possibilities -- if time

    • Update about ACRL Changes to Communities [3 min]

    • Wrap-up [2 min]

    See you tomorrow!

    ~Ginny



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    Virginia Pannabecker
    Assistant Dean and Director, Research Collaboration and Engagement
    University Libraries, Virginia Tech
    She/Her/Hers,They/Them/Theirs
    vpannabe@vt.edu
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