AI POLICY FOR LIBRARIES:
A Practical Intensive for Leaders with Crystal Trice
OVERVIEW:
AI is already happening in your library, whether there's a policy for it or not. Staff are using tools on their own, vendors are quietly building AI into their systems, and patrons are asking questions that don't have easy answers yet. Most library leaders know they need to establish clear direction -- and most haven't had the time or a practical place to start. This intensive is built for exactly that moment.
In 3.5 focused hours, you'll move from uncertainty to clarity and from clarity to action. This isn't a theoretical overview or a list of things to worry about. It's a working session designed around the real constraints of library leadership: limited time, competing priorities, and the need for guidance that staff can actually use.
WHAT YOU'LL GAIN:
An Ethical Foundation for AI Decision-Making: Understand why AI policy is both an ethical responsibility and an operational one, and what that means for how your library approaches it.
Clarity on Policy Structure: Distinguish between policies, guidelines, and procedures, and understand when each is the right tool. Explore the core components of a clear, values-based AI policy that works in practice, not just on paper.
A Map of Where AI Intersects Your Existing Policies: Identify where AI is already touching areas like privacy, staff conduct, and collection development, and where your current policies leave gaps.
A Practical Starting Point: Work through a policy skeleton you can adapt to your library's context, so you leave with a real draft in progress rather than a to-do list.
Shared Language and Next Steps: Build the common framework your team needs to make consistent, confident decisions about AI going forward.
WHO THIS INTENSIVE IS FOR:
This session is designed for library directors, managers, supervisors, department heads, team leads, and staff involved in policy development, training, or organizational planning. It is appropriate for public, school, academic, and special libraries.
This 3.5-hour online intensive is part of our "AI for Leaders" Series. The recording and presentation slides will be available to all who register. It also includes frameworks and tools you can adapt to your local context immediately after the session.
DATE: May 1st, 2026, 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm US - Eastern Time
COST:
- $499/person - includes live attendance and any-time access to the recording and the presentation slides and receiving a participation certificate. To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@library20.com.
TO REGISTER:
Use the payment box above to register and pay. You can pay by credit card. You will receive an email within a day with information on how to attend the webinar live and how you can access the permanent webinar recording. If you are paying for someone else to attend, you'll be prompted to send an email to admin@library20.com with the name and email address of the actual attendee.
If you need to be invoiced or pay by check, if you have any trouble registering for a webinar, or if you have any questions, please email admin@library20.com.
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SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com to arrange):
- Multiple individual log-ins and access from the same organization paid together: $449 each for 3+ registrations, $399 each for 5+ registrations. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
- The ability to show the webinar (live or recorded) to a group located in the same physical location or in the same virtual meeting from one log-in: $999.
- Large-scale institutional access for viewing with individual login capability: $1999 (hosted either at Learning Revolution or in Niche Academy). Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
ALL-ACCESS PASSES: This webinar is not a part of the Safe Library All-Access program.
With over two decades of experience in libraries and education, Crystal Trice is passionate about helping people work together more effectively in transformative, but practical ways. As founder of Scissors & Glue, LLC, Crystal partners with libraries and schools to bring positive changes through interactive training and hands-on workshops. She is a Certified Scrum Master and has completed a Masters Degree in Library & Information Science, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and Psychology. She is a frequent national presenter on topics ranging from project management to conflict resolution to artificial intelligence. She currently resides near Portland, Oregon, with her extraordinary husband, fuzzy cows, goofy geese, and noisy chickens. Crystal enjoys fine-tip Sharpies, multi-colored Flair pens, blue painters tape, and as many sticky notes as she can get her hands on.
