Between Books and Chatbots: Developing and AI Literacy Course for the University of Cambridge Librarians

This presentation discusses an AI literacy training course that I developed for academic librarians at the University of Cambridge. Built as an asynchronous course, the purpose of this initiative was to provide academic librarians across the university with an opportunity to strengthen their own AI literacy by providing time to experiment with different AI tools and fortnightly in-person meetings to discuss best practice and questions arising from the course material. Taking this course as a case study, my presentation will discuss how this initiative worked as an important tool to fill the skills gap and the ways it empowered librarians to feel to engage more confidently with AI in higher education.

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Garcia Jr, A. (2025, September 16). Between Books and Chatbots: Developing and AI Literacy Course for the University of Cambridge Librarians. AIEOU Inaugural Conference, University of Oxford. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17537923

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