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SLAAIT Member Meeting: October 9, 2024

Posted9 October 2024

Presented by David Lankes, Rachel Deitch, and Kim Silk

Agenda

  • Reviewing SLAAIT Activities to Date
  • Gathering Member Feedback
  • Planning the Summative Convening
  • Discussion

Slate Activities to Date

Phase 1: May to June 2024

Phase 2: July to September 2024

  • We presented a series of webinars where state libraries shared their AI-related activities, fuelling information and knowledge sharing.
  • We implemented the Petting Zoo as a virtual lab and are adding more tools to use. 
  • We expanded communications channels to include Google Groups/email and The Full SLAAIT newsletter to share AI developments and member activities.

Phase 3: October to December 2024

We are planning a 2-day summative online conversation event

  • To support SLAAIT members with their AI-related activities as the engagement winds down.
  • We’ve begun compile a “briefing book” that provides an organized report on the SLAAIT work to this point and key, state-specific information, and recommendations.

The draft agenda for the summative convening will include:

  1. A day of targeted presentations 
  2. A second day for discussions with SLAAIT members, both with the state librarians and with participating state library staff.

Possible topics:

  • AI in rural libraries
  • Scaling-up state projects
  • AI for metadata creation
  • Ethical AI
  • Public AI
  • Public policy on AI
  • Using AI tools (demo/examples)
  • Other??

Polls

Q1: Select the two resources that are MOST useful:

Q2: Select the two resources that are LEAST useful: 

Q3: What did you expect that wasn’t done? (Long answer)

  • I feel like you have been working to be comprehensive. It would be great to have a conversation with vendors about AI.
  • I attended the first session, a petting zoo activity and missed getting on the newsletter list!
  • Can’t think of anything at the moment but it might be some training ideas.
  • I was hoping for more interaction and conversation among folks. Like on Slack. Not sure how to prompt that though
  • I didn’t have defined expectations going into the project.
  • I hoped for this to be more of a working group on co-creating a toolkit – so I envisioned recurring meetings drilling into the details of the toolkit or other resources. Felt more like a top (CIRCL) and bottom (States) structure, without a middle.
  • I do not think you all missed anything. But I am quite the beginner concerning AI. I have really appreciated access to the resources in order to increase my knowledge base.
  • I don’t see where there’s a state-specific report, which was my motivation for us joining this whole thing.
  • I did expect more tools in the petting zoo when it launched
  • Expecting more to take back to our state (a toolkit or other product of some sort).
  • I think I must have missed some of the details of the project, because I had missed the information about the State AI Policy Analyzer and haven’t had a chance to test it. Draft policies and suggested practices were issues I was really looking for, but I think I missed some things becauase of being very busy with other projects.
  • Deliverable that were state specific never came about Petting Zoo has not worked in our state
  • Hard to say since we are so new to the project. Everything so far has been valuable!
  • I may have missed this aspect of AI, though am interested in how to use AI for statistics & Data crunching.
  • more in-depth, substantial discussions and considerations and expert input on the ethics of AI