Core Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Libraries Interest Group

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Jason Coleman
Academic Services Librarian
Kansas State University Libraries
He/Him/His
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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
He/Him/His
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Original Message:
Sent: Mar 06, 2025 06:47 PM
From: Jason Coleman
Subject: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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
He/Him/His
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Original Message:
Sent: 3/12/2025 2:43:00 PM
From: Peter Musser
Subject: RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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
He/Him/His
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Original Message:
Sent: Mar 06, 2025 06:47 PM
From: Jason Coleman
Subject: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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
He/Him/His
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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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Original Message:
Sent: Mar 14, 2025 11:51 AM
From: Jason Coleman
Subject: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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

 

Original Message:
Sent: 3/12/2025 2:43:00 PM
From: Peter Musser
Subject: RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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
He/Him/His

Original Message:
Sent: Mar 06, 2025 06:47 PM
From: Jason Coleman
Subject: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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
He/Him/His
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Original Message:
Sent: 3/24/2025 1:33:00 PM
From: Andrew Wesolek
Subject: RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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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Original Message:
Sent: Mar 14, 2025 11:51 AM
From: Jason Coleman
Subject: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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

 

Original Message:
Sent: 3/12/2025 2:43:00 PM
From: Peter Musser
Subject: RE: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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

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

Head, Library Services
ISKME
He/Him/His

Original Message:
Sent: Mar 06, 2025 06:47 PM
From: Jason Coleman
Subject: AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers - feedback to the draft needed by March 26

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
He/Him/His
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