New videos, upcoming webinars, deep research, and notes from our work with public libraries.
PLAID3 Studio is the image generation and remixing tool we use in our library AI training cohorts — make an image from a sentence, remix one you already have, and learn prompting in a shared gallery.
Reflections from the second cohort of LibraryLinkNJ's AI Ambassadors training series — what changed in two and a half years, and how we teach library staff to teach everyone else.
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs pennies on the dollar next to Claude and GPT — but ask it the same five questions and the difference in what it will say becomes obvious.
An interactive, reusable checklist for weighing any AI product or service against four community equity concerns — bias, access, environmental footprint, and workforce impact.
Two one-hour webinars this June — a preview of our AI policy workshop, and a working session on building patron AI literacy programs.
A mini-workshop recap from our AI Studio class: using text-driven AI image editing to visualize physical improvements — bike racks, displays, and redecoration — in and around the library.
We pointed an AI agent at 15 public library AI policies, running each through a 66-question survey. Most libraries get the consensus basics right — but patron AI literacy is the field's biggest missed opportunity.
Two small apps built by directing an AI — a webinar countdown timer and a storytime idea spinner — showing how non-developers can make custom software.
PLAID3 Hub gives libraries a guided patron AI chat, an 11-lesson literacy curriculum, and an admin dashboard — with privacy built in.
Our two-series, 11-video YouTube curriculum is free, plain-language, and built to share with patrons.
How we built ScapeGoat — an AI-powered escape room that introduced Michigan librarians to chatbots and AI agents at the TLN Library Technology Forum.
CALL Academy's 2026 AI Training Mini-Cohorts give California library staff a practical, six-part path through AI — from the basics to building a chatbot, February through July.
