I, Librarian: The Future of Academic Libraries
in the Age of AI

8:30 – 8:50                       Registration

 

8:50 – 9:00                       Welcome and opening remarks

 

9:00 – 10:00                     Keynote: Defining AI for the Library

                                              Dr. Andrew Cox, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

 

10:00 – 10:15                   Break

 

10:15 – 10:45                   ChatGPT: Should We be Afraid?

                                              Danielle Masursky, Education and Human Development Librarian, University of

                                              North Dakota

 

10:45 – 11: 15                   All Things Flow: Alfred North Whitehead, Librarians, and Intelligent Machines

                                              Benjamin Dueck, Arts and Humanities Librarian, University of Manitoba

 

11:15 – 11:45                     ChatGPT: What is it Good For?

                                              Ian Fraser, Head of Reference and Instruction, University of Winnipeg

 

11:45 – 12: 45                   Lunch

 

12:45 – 1: 45                     Roundtables (topics TBD)

 

1:45 – 2:00                        Break

 

2:00 – 2:30                       ChatGPT and the Commodification of Knowledge Work

                                        Sam Popowich, Digital Infrastructure Librarian, University of Winnipeg                                           

 2:30 – 3:00                      Illicit Tool for Eliciting Research: Elicit AI in the Information Literacy Classroom

                                             Amanda Walch, Reference and Instruction Librarian, University of Jamestown

 

3:00 – 3:30                       Chapter AGM