CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting

Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy has evolved from a theoretical discussion to an essential academic competency. In 2025, many academic institutions and libraries no longer debate whether to invest in AI skills, but rather how to do so effectively and responsibly. This panel will feature two library leaders highlighting how their institutions advance AI literacy initiatives. The discussion will focus on practical strategies for embedding AI literacy into library services; equipping librarians with essential AI skills; and fostering collaboration among faculty, IT, and students.

Libraries have a rich tradition of interconnection, resource sharing, and cooperative metadata work, but not of open metadata. Our work with interoperability projects and research information services including IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), Blue Core, POD (Platform for Open Data), and RIALTO bring questions about metadata reuse to the fore. This session will describe the uncertainties and impediments created by lack of explicit licensing and argue that open licenses or declarations are the right solutions that allow the library community to innovate. We draw connections with the practices of the burgeoning open science and open data movements, as well as emerging requirements for outputs from federally funded research.

IIIF: http://iiif.io
Blue Core: https://bluecore.info/
POD: https://www.cni.org/topics/digital-libraries/pod-building-library-data-lakes-to-reduce-friction-and-enable-innovation
RIALTO: https://library.stanford.edu/rialto-research-intelligence

*The presenters will also host a breakfast discussion table on this topic (Tuesday, April 8, 7:45–9:00 am)

Washington University (WashU) established the Digital Intelligence and Innovation Accelerator (DI2) to catalyze digital transformation and support researchers in the development and implementation of software and related technologies to support. From the beginning, WashU Libraries have actively partnered with DI2, taking advantage of the library's central position on campus to serve as a 'front door' to digital transformation. This presentation discusses the partnership and presents case studies of three projects that have shaped both organizations' approaches to services. First, the presenters will look at chatbots for discovery. DI2 has an objective to build a state-of-the-art chatbot tool that is fully HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) compliant. The ChatBot Creator project is designed to be user-friendly and highly customizable, and the first beta use case is being developed in partnership with the university library. It is a Digital Resource Hub chatbot that supports the campus community in identifying resources to support their research and learning needs. The second case study will look at a DI2-funded project, based in the libraries, to expand the use of, and access to, open educational resources for the campus. Finally, the presenters will review ongoing efforts to implement a campus-wide research profiling system. Each of these partnerships has been different, but all have resulted in improved services for WashU faculty and students.

OER Project: https://library.wustl.edu/news/new-award-to-transform-learning-through-open-educational-resources/
DI2 overview: https://di2accelerator.wustl.edu/
WashU Libraries: https://library.wustl.edu/