{"id":18124,"date":"2025-10-27T18:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/?p=18124"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:48:54","slug":"acrl-board-of-directors-approves-new-ai-competencies-for-academic-library-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/acrl-board-of-directors-approves-new-ai-competencies-for-academic-library-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"ACRL Board of Directors Approves New AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(via ACRL)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ACRL Board of Directors approved new&nbsp;AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers&nbsp;at its October 3, 2025, virtual meeting.&nbsp;The document expands on the broad definition of AI literacy, tailoring it into a comprehensive, library-specific set of competencies applicable to academic library workers. It is meant to serve as a guiding framework for the creation of training programs and as a foundation for communities of librarians to develop their own AI competency frameworks. Given the diversity of roles and job duties among academic library workers, it is not possible to create a set of competencies that apply uniformly to everyone. Therefore, individuals, institutions, and others who use the competencies are encouraged to adapt them to specific job functions, responsibilities, or organizational contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/acrl\/standards\/ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers<\/a>\u00a0is freely available in the Standards, Guidelines, and Frameworks section of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/acrl\/standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACRL website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via ACRL) The ACRL Board of Directors approved new&nbsp;AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers&nbsp;at its October 3, 2025, virtual meeting.&nbsp;The document expands on the broad definition of AI literacy, tailoring it into a comprehensive, library-specific set of competencies applicable to academic library workers. It is meant to serve as a guiding framework for the creation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-association-of-college-and-research-libraries","category-committees-non-hsli","category-library-associations-non-hsli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18125,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18124\/revisions\/18125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}