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  • 1.  AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

    Posted Mar 06, 2025 06:47 PM
    The ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force invites your feedback on a draft of the proposed "AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers" (PDF). The working group is following ACRL procedures for updates and an open comment period laid out by the ACRL Standards Committee, found on the ACRL website.
    Please use the feedback form to share your comments and suggestions by March 26, 2025. Though the competencies were written for academic library workers, the Task Force welcomes feedback from everyone. Further discussion will be held at the ACRL 2025 conference during the "AI Competencies for Library Workers: Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries" presentation from 10:30-11:30 am Central on April 3, 2025.
    After closing this review period, the task force will review and incorporate feedback into a revised draft that will be sent to the ACRL Standards Committee and the ACRL Board of Directors. Contact Task Force Co-Chairs Jason Coleman (coleman@ksu.edu) and Keven Jeffery (kjeffery@sdsu.edu) with questions.


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    Jason Coleman
    Academic Services Librarian
    Kansas State University Libraries
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  • 2.  RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

    Posted Mar 12, 2025 01:43 PM

    Thanks for sharing this, Jason! Great to see movement on this. 



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    Peter Musser
    Chair, ALA Core IG for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Libraries

    Head, Library Services
    ISKME
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  • 3.  RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

    Posted Mar 14, 2025 11:52 AM
    Thank you, Peter. We are very eager for feedback from you and other members of the Core Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Libraries Interest Group. 

    As Keven and I noted when we met with you and Andrew Wesolek back in December, our task force found that our need to create a single set of competencies that would be applicable to all academic library workers meant that the competencies are very broad and general. Your advice to emphasize the values of librarianship was extremely helpful to us. It was the inspiration for the decision to foreground the dispositions.

    Leo Lo, Keven Jeffery, and I want the AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers to be a useful starting point for other groups, such as yours, to develop more detailed and granular competencies focused on the needs and interests of specific sub-fields and functions within academic libraries. 


    Jason Coleman

    Academic Services Librarian

    Professor

    Hale Library, Room 216

    Kansas State University

    coleman@ksu.edu

     




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  • 4.  RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

    Posted Mar 24, 2025 12:33 PM

    Hi Jason, 

    Apologies for the delay on my end! I'm reading through the competencies now and will be happy to provide feedback. Is it OK if I share this and the feedback form with the Core Tech Leadership group?

    Andy



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    Andrew Wesolek
    Chief Digital Strategist and Senior Director, The Digital Lab
    Vanderbilt University
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  • 5.  RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

    Posted Mar 24, 2025 02:50 PM
    Hi, Andrew,

    No worries. I would love it if you were to share this with CORE's executive committee!



    Jason Coleman

    Academic Services Librarian

    Professor

    Hale Library, Room 216

    Kansas State University

    coleman@ksu.edu

     




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