Hello Colleagues!
The OCLC Research Library Partnership hosted a webinar last month, and the recording from that webinar is now available. Works in Progress Webinar: Lessons learned from implementing an AI reference chatbot at the University of Calgary Library https://www.oclc.org/research/events/2024/implementing-an-ai-reference-chatbot.html
My colleague Rebecca Bryant also wrote a blog post summarizing the webinar with some key takeaways.
Implementing an AI reference chatbot at the University of Calgary Library
Going back further into the OCLC RLP vault, we also have this webinar from Library of Congress that we hosted on the LC Labs AI Planning Framework
Works in Progress Webinar: LC Labs AI Planning Framework in action-Understand, experiment, and implement AI tools that support catalogers
In these resources there are examples of some of the topics we've been exploring in discussions around disposition and competencies, including experimentation, the role of humans, crititcal use and evaluation, integration into library workflows.
If you are compilating a holiday season "to watch" list, you might consider adding some of these to your list!
AI implementation is a topic we are looking at across all our programmatic areas of focus and I'll be sure you share more outcomes from the RLP in this venue.
Best,
Merrilee