Lesson 4 of 4 · about 5 min
Grow with AI: your 30-day plan
When you finish, you can follow a month-long practice plan and describe your AI skills honestly to your director and community.
Stuck? Ask the AI tutorSkills that gain value
Information literacy teaching, source evaluation, reference interviews, community listening, digital inclusion, privacy advocacy and program design gain value. Communities are asking how to tell what is real. Librarians are well placed to answer.
Staff who can explain AI clearly, without hype or fear, will help their libraries stay relevant.
Four weeks of practice
Week one: read your library's policies and professional ethics on AI and privacy. Practice with public material. Week two: use AI to draft five handouts or program outlines, edit each, and test one with a colleague. Log errors.
Week three: make a short patron-facing guide on checking AI answers and try it in a small session. Week four: with approval, offer a short AI literacy drop-in and collect feedback. Share your results with your director.
Describing skills honestly
On a resume: “Designed and taught an AI literacy workshop on checking sources and protecting privacy; used AI to draft handouts, with all content reviewed.” Avoid claiming that AI replaced reference service.
In interviews, describe a time a chatbot gave a source that did not exist, how you checked and what you taught the patron.
Talking with your director and community
Propose a small pilot with clear privacy rules. Offer to draft a staff guide. Directors often care about budget, risk and community trust, so connect your proposal to those.
With patrons, be open and balanced. You neither promote nor ban the tools. You help people use them carefully and keep their right to ask questions in private.
Practice now
- Write a four-week plan with one measurable goal per week.
- Outline a 30-minute drop-in session on checking AI answers.
Use any AI assistant you have. Do not paste private, client or patient information into it.
Check yourself
1. Which resume line is honest?
2. What should a pilot include?
3. How should librarians present AI to the public?
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