Presentation Slides

Here is a link to the presentation slides from my presentation at the Greater Victoria Public Library staff ProD Day. Below the embedded slides are links to additional resources & suggested next steps.

Free Workshops

Get familiar with GenAI tools by taking in-person or self-paced UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons Workshops GenAI workshops – lib.uvic.ca/genai-pathway

• If you’re new to working with GenAI tools you might want to start with our Generative AI for Student Research: A Double-Edged Sword workshop.
• Next, you might want to learn more about personalizable GenAI tools: GenAI: NotebookLM a Personal Tool for Research & Productivity
• AI: Tools for Literature Reviews
• Transcription with Free AI Tools
• GenAI: Research Tools (Advanced)
  • Explore the use of advanced GenAI tools & techniques, including installing & using local GenAI software especially for working with private or sensitive information
  • Explore GenAI tools using specific documents as the training data, analyze datasets, perform sentiment analysis on free-form survey questions, & assist with qualitative coding

Recommended Readings

• Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction, West, C. T. B., Jevin. (2025).
• We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard, O’Donnell, J., & Crownhart, C. (2025, May 20). MIT Technology Review. 
• The Future of the Professions (book) by Richard & Daniel Susskind (2022)
• Weapons of Math Destruction (book) by Cathy O’Neil (2016)
• GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs by Eloundou, T., Manning, S., Mishkin, P., & Rock, D. (2024)
• The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work by Loaiza, I., & Rigobon, R. (2024)