Session 1- AI in the Library: Tools & Tips for Library Personnel
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from 9:00 to 10:30 am
Location: Online Event
This workshop is designed to provide library personnel with practical strategies for leveraging Artificial Intelligence. We will provide an overview of what AI is and key considerations for school staff, including legality, ethics, and pedagogical alignment. Through a mix of demonstrations and prompt experimentation, you will discover how AI tools like Copilot and Gemini can streamline tasks like generating Reader's Advisory booklists, weeding justifications, and designing information literacy activities. Time will be provided at the end for questions and discussion.
Stacy Allen (LEARN)
Stacy is a pedagogical consultant for the LEARN. Part of her dossier includes consulting for the RÉCIT Provincial Services for the Anglophone Community. Stacy previously worked as an elementary teacher and an educational consultant specializing in second languages, social sciences, and arts at the Kativik Ilisarniliriniq School Board. Her teaching career also includes experience in English as a Second Language (ESL) in both Nova Scotia, Canada, and Shanghai, China. Stacy holds a BA in English from Saint Francis Xavier University, as well as a B.Ed. and an M.Ed. in Curriculum Studies from Acadia University.
Julian Taylor (EMSB)
Julian is a board-level librarian at the English Montreal School Board. In that capacity, he works with Educational Consultants, Administrators, Teachers, and school-based library personnel with issues related to information literacy, digital citizenship, library learning commons initiatives, and online resources. He has also worked at the Quebec Ministry of Education as the liaison between the ministry and school libraries in the English sector of Quebec, and as an English teacher in South Korea. BA History and MLIS - McGill University