ACRL Artificial Intelligence (AI) Interest Group

Hi all,

How was your ACRL 2025?  (If you were able to attend in-person or virtually)

• Did you attend AI related programs or engage with posters or other activities? 
• Did you present AI related programs, posters, or lead other AI related activities? 
• Did you get to say hi to @Merrilee Proffitt and @Noelle Barrick at our AI Discussion Group table at the Engagement Fair? Thanks so much for representing us, Merrillee and Noelle!

I attended virtually and greatly appreciated the many programs available via Livestream, Virtual program, recordings, and more! I appreciated the Opening Keynote by Ruha Benjamin, and I'm looking forward to rewatching the recording to catch what I missed, especially since my WiFi cut out a little before the end, but the first half or so was great! Dr. Benjamin's points about AI resonated with me - beyond artificial intelligence, also ancestral intelligence, and abundant imagination, as well as the importance of slowing down to reflect. They reminded me of some aspects of our discussion of Social Intelligence in the Age of AI with Dr. Hudson-Ward (who joined Dr. Leo Lo in a great welcome intro for the conference).  (In the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) we just finished this year's annual MLA Reads virtual book discussions where we read "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want" by Dr. Benjamin - highly recommend.)

I caught most of the "AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries," program with the task force and Dr. Lo.  They shared a link to a Feedback form for more comments on the Draft ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers - due April 16 (a link to the current Draft competencies is at the top of the form).  We've had a prior meet up with an early chance to share feedback, and I appreciate the task force's commitment to continuing to gather more feedback.  There were many questions and watching the recording, if you didn't have a chance to see this one, is likely a great way to get some updates on this endeavor.  

I also attended a program on "Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT," by two librarians at Lehman College and it was interested to learn about how they have been assessing the accuracy and usefulness of their instance of the Ivy Chatbot in depth, by reviewing user / chatbot interaction transcripts, including how they have updated configurations to provide structured data for more accurate responses for common questions, specific library website URLs to ensure it draws from these first, and adjusted the chatbot tool so that it more clearly refers users to librarians as an option any time, as well as referring to librarians when it reaches limits or doesn't seem to be answering a user's question effectively. 

Another program I attended, "Critical Indigenous Librarianship: Centering Indigenous Knowledge and Values for Cultural Resilience," focused on protocols to engage with Indigenous communities when working with collections our libraries already have, or in building new collections or support for Tribal Nations' goals for research or cultural information sharing, including when not to share, when and how to work with communities to update or change harmful metadata or repatriate materials. While not focused on AI, this program touched on Artificial Intelligence at least once towards the end, with a demonstration of the bias-based patterns built into AI systems that may be seen with prompts such as asking for Image Generation of a specific Tribal Nation today. 

There were so many great programs on all types of topics -- I will be revisiting program recordings for some time, as well as scheduling time over the next two weeks to go through posters. 

What did you all see related to AI that stood out to you or interested you? Or what did you present?! 

I had a great time, as usual! I really enjoyed staffing our table at the Engagement Fair and getting to know Merrilee, not to mention all the folks who stopped by!

The very first paper presentation I went to on Thursday morning was by far the most influential for me. Kevin Sebastian presented "Reframing Information-Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: A Critical and Humanistic Approach." The paper has really triggered me to think about existing accepted models of information seeking and how we need to reconceptualize those models and how we teach them in light of generative AI's use as a search tool. The paper is published in the Proceedings and I will be reading it, and some of the other papers on AI, very soon. 

Hi all,

How was your ACRL 2025?  (If you were able to attend in-person or virtually)

• Did you attend AI related programs or engage with posters or other activities? 
• Did you present AI related programs, posters, or lead other AI related activities? 
• Did you get to say hi to @Merrilee Proffitt and @Noelle Barrick at our AI Discussion Group table at the Engagement Fair? Thanks so much for representing us, Merrillee and Noelle!

I attended virtually and greatly appreciated the many programs available via Livestream, Virtual program, recordings, and more! I appreciated the Opening Keynote by Ruha Benjamin, and I'm looking forward to rewatching the recording to catch what I missed, especially since my WiFi cut out a little before the end, but the first half or so was great! Dr. Benjamin's points about AI resonated with me - beyond artificial intelligence, also ancestral intelligence, and abundant imagination, as well as the importance of slowing down to reflect. They reminded me of some aspects of our discussion of Social Intelligence in the Age of AI with Dr. Hudson-Ward (who joined Dr. Leo Lo in a great welcome intro for the conference).  (In the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) we just finished this year's annual MLA Reads virtual book discussions where we read "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want" by Dr. Benjamin - highly recommend.)

I caught most of the "AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries," program with the task force and Dr. Lo.  They shared a link to a Feedback form for more comments on the Draft ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers - due April 16 (a link to the current Draft competencies is at the top of the form).  We've had a prior meet up with an early chance to share feedback, and I appreciate the task force's commitment to continuing to gather more feedback.  There were many questions and watching the recording, if you didn't have a chance to see this one, is likely a great way to get some updates on this endeavor.  

I also attended a program on "Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT," by two librarians at Lehman College and it was interested to learn about how they have been assessing the accuracy and usefulness of their instance of the Ivy Chatbot in depth, by reviewing user / chatbot interaction transcripts, including how they have updated configurations to provide structured data for more accurate responses for common questions, specific library website URLs to ensure it draws from these first, and adjusted the chatbot tool so that it more clearly refers users to librarians as an option any time, as well as referring to librarians when it reaches limits or doesn't seem to be answering a user's question effectively. 

Another program I attended, "Critical Indigenous Librarianship: Centering Indigenous Knowledge and Values for Cultural Resilience," focused on protocols to engage with Indigenous communities when working with collections our libraries already have, or in building new collections or support for Tribal Nations' goals for research or cultural information sharing, including when not to share, when and how to work with communities to update or change harmful metadata or repatriate materials. While not focused on AI, this program touched on Artificial Intelligence at least once towards the end, with a demonstration of the bias-based patterns built into AI systems that may be seen with prompts such as asking for Image Generation of a specific Tribal Nation today. 

There were so many great programs on all types of topics -- I will be revisiting program recordings for some time, as well as scheduling time over the next two weeks to go through posters. 

What did you all see related to AI that stood out to you or interested you? Or what did you present?! 

Thank you so much for sharing the link.

Original Message:
Sent: Apr 08, 2025 09:39 AM
From: Noelle Barrick
Subject: How was ACRL 2025? :-D What AI Programs, Posters, and Activities did you engage with?

I had a great time, as usual! I really enjoyed staffing our table at the Engagement Fair and getting to know Merrilee, not to mention all the folks who stopped by!

The very first paper presentation I went to on Thursday morning was by far the most influential for me. Kevin Sebastian presented "Reframing Information-Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: A Critical and Humanistic Approach." The paper has really triggered me to think about existing accepted models of information seeking and how we need to reconceptualize those models and how we teach them in light of generative AI's use as a search tool. The paper is published in the Proceedings and I will be reading it, and some of the other papers on AI, very soon. 

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Noelle Barrick
Director
WSU Tech Library

Original Message:
Sent: Apr 07, 2025 03:41 PM
From: Virginia Pannabecker
Subject: How was ACRL 2025? :-D What AI Programs, Posters, and Activities did you engage with?

Hi all,

How was your ACRL 2025?  (If you were able to attend in-person or virtually)

• Did you attend AI related programs or engage with posters or other activities? 
• Did you present AI related programs, posters, or lead other AI related activities? 
• Did you get to say hi to @Merrilee Proffitt and @Noelle Barrick at our AI Discussion Group table at the Engagement Fair? Thanks so much for representing us, Merrillee and Noelle!

I attended virtually and greatly appreciated the many programs available via Livestream, Virtual program, recordings, and more! I appreciated the Opening Keynote by Ruha Benjamin, and I'm looking forward to rewatching the recording to catch what I missed, especially since my WiFi cut out a little before the end, but the first half or so was great! Dr. Benjamin's points about AI resonated with me - beyond artificial intelligence, also ancestral intelligence, and abundant imagination, as well as the importance of slowing down to reflect. They reminded me of some aspects of our discussion of Social Intelligence in the Age of AI with Dr. Hudson-Ward (who joined Dr. Leo Lo in a great welcome intro for the conference).  (In the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) we just finished this year's annual MLA Reads virtual book discussions where we read "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want" by Dr. Benjamin - highly recommend.)

I caught most of the "AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries," program with the task force and Dr. Lo.  They shared a link to a Feedback form for more comments on the Draft ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers - due April 16 (a link to the current Draft competencies is at the top of the form).  We've had a prior meet up with an early chance to share feedback, and I appreciate the task force's commitment to continuing to gather more feedback.  There were many questions and watching the recording, if you didn't have a chance to see this one, is likely a great way to get some updates on this endeavor.  

I also attended a program on "Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT," by two librarians at Lehman College and it was interested to learn about how they have been assessing the accuracy and usefulness of their instance of the Ivy Chatbot in depth, by reviewing user / chatbot interaction transcripts, including how they have updated configurations to provide structured data for more accurate responses for common questions, specific library website URLs to ensure it draws from these first, and adjusted the chatbot tool so that it more clearly refers users to librarians as an option any time, as well as referring to librarians when it reaches limits or doesn't seem to be answering a user's question effectively. 

Another program I attended, "Critical Indigenous Librarianship: Centering Indigenous Knowledge and Values for Cultural Resilience," focused on protocols to engage with Indigenous communities when working with collections our libraries already have, or in building new collections or support for Tribal Nations' goals for research or cultural information sharing, including when not to share, when and how to work with communities to update or change harmful metadata or repatriate materials. While not focused on AI, this program touched on Artificial Intelligence at least once towards the end, with a demonstration of the bias-based patterns built into AI systems that may be seen with prompts such as asking for Image Generation of a specific Tribal Nation today. 

There were so many great programs on all types of topics -- I will be revisiting program recordings for some time, as well as scheduling time over the next two weeks to go through posters. 

What did you all see related to AI that stood out to you or interested you? Or what did you present?! 

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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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I had a great time, as usual! I really enjoyed staffing our table at the Engagement Fair and getting to know Merrilee, not to mention all the folks who stopped by!

The very first paper presentation I went to on Thursday morning was by far the most influential for me. Kevin Sebastian presented "Reframing Information-Seeking in the Age of Generative AI: A Critical and Humanistic Approach." The paper has really triggered me to think about existing accepted models of information seeking and how we need to reconceptualize those models and how we teach them in light of generative AI's use as a search tool. The paper is published in the Proceedings and I will be reading it, and some of the other papers on AI, very soon. 

------------------------------
Noelle Barrick
Director
WSU Tech Library

Original Message:
Sent: Apr 07, 2025 03:41 PM
From: Virginia Pannabecker
Subject: How was ACRL 2025? :-D What AI Programs, Posters, and Activities did you engage with?

Hi all,

How was your ACRL 2025?  (If you were able to attend in-person or virtually)

• Did you attend AI related programs or engage with posters or other activities? 
• Did you present AI related programs, posters, or lead other AI related activities? 
• Did you get to say hi to @Merrilee Proffitt and @Noelle Barrick at our AI Discussion Group table at the Engagement Fair? Thanks so much for representing us, Merrillee and Noelle!

I attended virtually and greatly appreciated the many programs available via Livestream, Virtual program, recordings, and more! I appreciated the Opening Keynote by Ruha Benjamin, and I'm looking forward to rewatching the recording to catch what I missed, especially since my WiFi cut out a little before the end, but the first half or so was great! Dr. Benjamin's points about AI resonated with me - beyond artificial intelligence, also ancestral intelligence, and abundant imagination, as well as the importance of slowing down to reflect. They reminded me of some aspects of our discussion of Social Intelligence in the Age of AI with Dr. Hudson-Ward (who joined Dr. Leo Lo in a great welcome intro for the conference).  (In the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) we just finished this year's annual MLA Reads virtual book discussions where we read "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want" by Dr. Benjamin - highly recommend.)

I caught most of the "AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries," program with the task force and Dr. Lo.  They shared a link to a Feedback form for more comments on the Draft ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers - due April 16 (a link to the current Draft competencies is at the top of the form).  We've had a prior meet up with an early chance to share feedback, and I appreciate the task force's commitment to continuing to gather more feedback.  There were many questions and watching the recording, if you didn't have a chance to see this one, is likely a great way to get some updates on this endeavor.  

I also attended a program on "Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT," by two librarians at Lehman College and it was interested to learn about how they have been assessing the accuracy and usefulness of their instance of the Ivy Chatbot in depth, by reviewing user / chatbot interaction transcripts, including how they have updated configurations to provide structured data for more accurate responses for common questions, specific library website URLs to ensure it draws from these first, and adjusted the chatbot tool so that it more clearly refers users to librarians as an option any time, as well as referring to librarians when it reaches limits or doesn't seem to be answering a user's question effectively. 

Another program I attended, "Critical Indigenous Librarianship: Centering Indigenous Knowledge and Values for Cultural Resilience," focused on protocols to engage with Indigenous communities when working with collections our libraries already have, or in building new collections or support for Tribal Nations' goals for research or cultural information sharing, including when not to share, when and how to work with communities to update or change harmful metadata or repatriate materials. While not focused on AI, this program touched on Artificial Intelligence at least once towards the end, with a demonstration of the bias-based patterns built into AI systems that may be seen with prompts such as asking for Image Generation of a specific Tribal Nation today. 

There were so many great programs on all types of topics -- I will be revisiting program recordings for some time, as well as scheduling time over the next two weeks to go through posters. 

What did you all see related to AI that stood out to you or interested you? Or what did you present?! 

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

Hi all,

How was your ACRL 2025?  (If you were able to attend in-person or virtually)

• Did you attend AI related programs or engage with posters or other activities? 
• Did you present AI related programs, posters, or lead other AI related activities? 
• Did you get to say hi to @Merrilee Proffitt and @Noelle Barrick at our AI Discussion Group table at the Engagement Fair? Thanks so much for representing us, Merrillee and Noelle!

I attended virtually and greatly appreciated the many programs available via Livestream, Virtual program, recordings, and more! I appreciated the Opening Keynote by Ruha Benjamin, and I'm looking forward to rewatching the recording to catch what I missed, especially since my WiFi cut out a little before the end, but the first half or so was great! Dr. Benjamin's points about AI resonated with me - beyond artificial intelligence, also ancestral intelligence, and abundant imagination, as well as the importance of slowing down to reflect. They reminded me of some aspects of our discussion of Social Intelligence in the Age of AI with Dr. Hudson-Ward (who joined Dr. Leo Lo in a great welcome intro for the conference).  (In the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) we just finished this year's annual MLA Reads virtual book discussions where we read "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want" by Dr. Benjamin - highly recommend.)

I caught most of the "AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries," program with the task force and Dr. Lo.  They shared a link to a Feedback form for more comments on the Draft ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers - due April 16 (a link to the current Draft competencies is at the top of the form).  We've had a prior meet up with an early chance to share feedback, and I appreciate the task force's commitment to continuing to gather more feedback.  There were many questions and watching the recording, if you didn't have a chance to see this one, is likely a great way to get some updates on this endeavor.  

I also attended a program on "Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT," by two librarians at Lehman College and it was interested to learn about how they have been assessing the accuracy and usefulness of their instance of the Ivy Chatbot in depth, by reviewing user / chatbot interaction transcripts, including how they have updated configurations to provide structured data for more accurate responses for common questions, specific library website URLs to ensure it draws from these first, and adjusted the chatbot tool so that it more clearly refers users to librarians as an option any time, as well as referring to librarians when it reaches limits or doesn't seem to be answering a user's question effectively. 

Another program I attended, "Critical Indigenous Librarianship: Centering Indigenous Knowledge and Values for Cultural Resilience," focused on protocols to engage with Indigenous communities when working with collections our libraries already have, or in building new collections or support for Tribal Nations' goals for research or cultural information sharing, including when not to share, when and how to work with communities to update or change harmful metadata or repatriate materials. While not focused on AI, this program touched on Artificial Intelligence at least once towards the end, with a demonstration of the bias-based patterns built into AI systems that may be seen with prompts such as asking for Image Generation of a specific Tribal Nation today. 

There were so many great programs on all types of topics -- I will be revisiting program recordings for some time, as well as scheduling time over the next two weeks to go through posters. 

What did you all see related to AI that stood out to you or interested you? Or what did you present?! 

Thanks for this post. I found about 8 papers that I can't wait to read. I was sad to have missed the conference -  I didn't realize I could have attended virtually :-(

Is it to late to register, or is there another way to access the recordings?

Hi all,

How was your ACRL 2025?  (If you were able to attend in-person or virtually)

• Did you attend AI related programs or engage with posters or other activities? 
• Did you present AI related programs, posters, or lead other AI related activities? 
• Did you get to say hi to @Merrilee Proffitt and @Noelle Barrick at our AI Discussion Group table at the Engagement Fair? Thanks so much for representing us, Merrillee and Noelle!

I attended virtually and greatly appreciated the many programs available via Livestream, Virtual program, recordings, and more! I appreciated the Opening Keynote by Ruha Benjamin, and I'm looking forward to rewatching the recording to catch what I missed, especially since my WiFi cut out a little before the end, but the first half or so was great! Dr. Benjamin's points about AI resonated with me - beyond artificial intelligence, also ancestral intelligence, and abundant imagination, as well as the importance of slowing down to reflect. They reminded me of some aspects of our discussion of Social Intelligence in the Age of AI with Dr. Hudson-Ward (who joined Dr. Leo Lo in a great welcome intro for the conference).  (In the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) we just finished this year's annual MLA Reads virtual book discussions where we read "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want" by Dr. Benjamin - highly recommend.)

I caught most of the "AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries," program with the task force and Dr. Lo.  They shared a link to a Feedback form for more comments on the Draft ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers - due April 16 (a link to the current Draft competencies is at the top of the form).  We've had a prior meet up with an early chance to share feedback, and I appreciate the task force's commitment to continuing to gather more feedback.  There were many questions and watching the recording, if you didn't have a chance to see this one, is likely a great way to get some updates on this endeavor.  

I also attended a program on "Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT," by two librarians at Lehman College and it was interested to learn about how they have been assessing the accuracy and usefulness of their instance of the Ivy Chatbot in depth, by reviewing user / chatbot interaction transcripts, including how they have updated configurations to provide structured data for more accurate responses for common questions, specific library website URLs to ensure it draws from these first, and adjusted the chatbot tool so that it more clearly refers users to librarians as an option any time, as well as referring to librarians when it reaches limits or doesn't seem to be answering a user's question effectively. 

Another program I attended, "Critical Indigenous Librarianship: Centering Indigenous Knowledge and Values for Cultural Resilience," focused on protocols to engage with Indigenous communities when working with collections our libraries already have, or in building new collections or support for Tribal Nations' goals for research or cultural information sharing, including when not to share, when and how to work with communities to update or change harmful metadata or repatriate materials. While not focused on AI, this program touched on Artificial Intelligence at least once towards the end, with a demonstration of the bias-based patterns built into AI systems that may be seen with prompts such as asking for Image Generation of a specific Tribal Nation today. 

There were so many great programs on all types of topics -- I will be revisiting program recordings for some time, as well as scheduling time over the next two weeks to go through posters. 

What did you all see related to AI that stood out to you or interested you? Or what did you present?!