(via Laura Crossett, Library Futures)
Library Futures is pleased to bring you not one, but three, free webinars this December! All will take place at 12:00 PM CDT. Writeups and recordings, when available, will be sent to all registrants and made available on our website.
Made In the Library: Creativity, Copyright, and Community on Wednesday, December 3
Learn how to keep your library’s makerspace both legally sound and open to all with panelists Dr. Sarah C. Hutton of the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan Medical School; Kay Slater, Creative Technology Specialist at Oak Park (IL) Public Library; Dr. Tomas A. Lipinski, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin; and moderator and Library Futures intern Moriah-Taylor Rutherford.
Information Literacy in the Age of GenAI on Thursday, December 11
Information literacy is among librarianship’s most important teachings. What happens when generative AI enters the spaces where students research, learn, and work? Join panelists Dr. Andrea Baer, Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Information at the University of Texas-Austin; Dr. Damien Patrick Williams, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North Carolina Charlotte; and Mita Williams, Law Librarian for the Don & Gail Rodzik Library at the University of Windsor.
Platform Power and Libraries Book Talk on Tuesday, December 16
Platform Power and Libraries, a new anthology from Library Juice Press, brings light to the often overlooked and underexplored power that platforms can hold in libraries. Editor Christine F. Smith and contributors Elena Rowan and Lisa Hooper join us for a book talk.
You can catch up all the sessions from our fall series Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Information Professionals Webinar Series on our website!