AI+ Librarians Workbook
Practice companion to AI+ Librarians
Practice companion to T2-66.
You photographed the Safety Protocol page. The backlog never noticed.
You read AI+ Librarians. The Citation Verification Loop made sense, the Prompt Toolkit was ready to use — and the backlog, the reference desk, and the newsletter are still running exactly as before. This workbook closes that gap: 38 exercises across four weeks, built on your own catalogue, your own patrons, your own collection — whatever sector you serve. Built by an AI engineering firm for librarians who set the standard for verified information — the practice that makes verification automatic.
- 38 structured exercises across four weeks — built on the collection, patrons, and reference questions you handle every day
- Week 1 — foundations: the Librarian Task–AI Map, PRISM prompting, and TRUST-checking your first drafts
- Week 2 — curation under the Safety Protocol: item, collection, and strategic-level curation, plus a fix-the-record drill
- Week 3 — discovery and verification: the Citation Verification Loop, a hallucination profile of your own AI tool, and a catch-the-error drill
- Week 4 — service and sustained habits: TRUST-checked communications, your own sector's practice, and a weekly working pattern that lasts
A practising librarian or information professional — academic, public, school, special, or national library; front-of-house or technical services; cataloguer, reference librarian, information literacy instructor, or branch generalist — who has read (or is working through) AI+ Librarians (T2-66) and wants structured, progressive practice applying the Curate–Discover–Serve cycle's AI skills to their own real collection, reference desk, and patron work.
Also for:A library service or team using the workbook as a facilitated CPD programme; a library school instructor using it as a practicum companion; a head of service running a staff development arc across mixed roles and sectors.
- Map a real library workload onto the Librarian Task–AI Map, build PRISM-structured prompts for core library tasks using the Librarian Prompt Toolkit, and apply the TRUST Framework to every AI output destined for the catalogue, a patron, or a formal document
- Run an AI-assisted curation workflow on real backlog and collection work — 520 summaries, subject headings verified against the authority file, selection briefs, weeding rationales, and diversity audits — with the Librarian AI Safety Protocol applied before any material leaves the building, including correctly diagnosing and fixing a supplied flawed catalogue-record draft
- Apply the Citation Verification Loop to every AI-surfaced citation in real reference and research-support work, build a hallucination profile of the AI tool their library uses, handle a patron who arrives with AI output, and convert verification skill into information literacy instruction — including correctly catching the seeded errors in a supplied AI literature scan
- Produce TRUST-checked patron-facing communications, programming briefs, and funder narratives from real service work, apply the practice to their own library sector, and define a repeatable weekly AI working pattern to sustain beyond the workbook
- Week 1
- Foundations — Mapping, Prompting and Verifying
- Week 2
- Curation Under the Safety Protocol
- Week 3
- Discovery, Verification and Teaching It
- Week 4
- Service, Sector Practice and Sustained Habits
- Back matter
- Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference
Built by an AI engineering firm for librarians who set the standard for verified information — the practice that makes verification automatic.
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