Empowering Your Library Program With AI

Outline

Introduction and Context (5 Minutes)

- Welcome
- Briefly define Generative AI and discuss the changes in education caused by AI
- Discuss the ethical foundation and school policies.
- Agenda Overview

AI for Administrative & Program Efficiency (15 Minutes)
- Task Automation: Saving Time
- Program Design & Planning
- Lesson/Workshop Outlines

Empowering Student Learning & Literacy (15 Minutes)**
- Teaching Responsible Prompting and Focusing on AI literacy
- Prompt Engineering as a new research skill
- Using AI to brainstorm and organize

Differentiated Learning Support
- Text Simplification
- Creative Writing
- Research Scaffolding

Citing & Source Verification
- Tools for checking for bias or identifying potential hallucinations in AI-generated text.
- Emphasizing AI as a source to be cited and evaluated, just like any other.

Supporting Teachers & Instruction (15 Minutes)
Curricular Integration & Co-Planning
- Using AI to find cross-curricular connections for a teacher's unit (e.g., History + Art).
- Generating sample quiz questions or discussion prompts based on required reading materials.
- Creating Custom Resources
- Design visually appealing infographics or slide decks summarizing research processes

Leading Professional Development (PD)
- Using AI to tailor PD content and timing for different departments (e.g., simple use cases for new users vs. advanced uses for tech-savvy staff)
- Generating quick, digestible AI tips for weekly staff newsletters.

Conclusion and Next Steps (15 Minutes)
Actionable Next Steps and challenges
- Challenge 1: Use AI to draft one new school policy or communication.
- Challenge 2 Run one text-simplification activity with students.
- Challenge 3: Schedule one AI co-planning session with a teacher.

Key Resources & Toolkit
Q&A

Outcomes

Librarians will learn about various AI tools and resources in several categories, including administrative tasks, with students, and in supporting teachers and teaching throughout the school community. You will learn about several AI tools in these areas of work as librarians, and will have a chance to try them out during this workshop. And the best part....You will go back to your school with an AI librarian toolbox ready to go!

Supporting research

- Leading from the Library - 2nd Edition (2024), https://iste.org/products/a1w8Z000005oMPPQA2/LDLIB2---Leading-From-the-Library,-Second-Edition
- Future Ready Librarians Framework (2025), https://all4ed.org/future-ready-librarians-hub
- Artificial Intelligence in Education, ISTE (2025), https://iste.org/ai
- EngageAI Institute (2025), https://engageai.org/