UKeiG CPD Zoom Course: Artificial intelligence for librarians, information and knowledge professionals
Tuesday, 15th July 2025 - 1 pm to 4 pm
Overview
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has provided daily news headlines over the last six months, sparking curiosity but also uncertainty, even anxiety.
There is hype, but also hope.
It is a key professional issue touching on every aspect of the work of the library and information science community, with relevance to the critical appraisal of content validity, data quality and management, ethics, intellectual property, plagiarism and legal compliance.
This three-hour workshop seeks to inform delegates about the nature of AI and to get to grips with how to use it responsibly.
We have had exposure to forms of AI for many years using functions like predictive text, autocorrection, grammar checking, personalised recommendation, search ranking, captioning, automated transcription and translation.
Many database vendors are incorporating AI into their products. The library and information community has relevant experience through the support of text and data mining, of data science and digital humanities, the promotion of data literacy, and in the use of learning and library analytics. These are only the beginning of exciting developments that may well impact information work profoundly in areas like knowledge discovery through to analysing, even predicting, user behaviour. Information professionals may have roles in evaluating systems and products using AI, generating metadata and training users to navigate AI based search systems, and acquire data/AI literacy.
This workshop is an introduction to AI designed specifically for library, information and knowledge professionals to enable them to get up to speed on this critical topic. As well as introducing the applications of AI in an accessible way, part of the course is designed to give delegates an insight into what is involved ‘under the hood’ of AI applications. We aim to provide you with theoretical and practical experience of working with some AI tools.
Who should attend?
This workshop is ideal for any library, information and knowledge professional interested in developing an understanding of AI as it applies to their work.
Speakers
Workshop leaders
Andrew Cox
Andrew Cox is a senior lecturer at the Information School, University of Sheffield, and author of his independently researched report - ‘The Impact of AI, machine learning, automation and robotics on the information profession’
- published by CILIP in 2020. It called for a ‘joined-up and coherent response from information professionals, enabling us to maximise the benefits of AI, machine learning, automation and robotics for information users
while mitigating the emerging risks.’
He is convenor of the IFLA special interest group on AI and the chair elect of the ASIS&T SIG on AI.
Suvodeep Mazumdar
Suvodeep Mazumdar is a Lecturer in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. His primary research interest is Big Data Analytics and Crowdsourcing. He conducts inter-disciplinary research on highly engaging,
interactive and visual mechanisms in conjunction with complex querying techniques for seamless navigation, exploration and understanding of complex datasets and has applied his research in various application domains
(such as health informatics, smart cities, emergency response etc.).
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