IS YOUR LIBRARY AI-READY?
A Practical Intensive for Leaders with Crystal Trice
OVERVIEW:
AI is reshaping library work faster than most leaders can keep up with. Vendors are embedding it in their tools, staff are experimenting on their own, and patrons are arriving with new expectations. Even libraries that have already drafted policies or started conversations often find themselves unsettled, unsure whether they're asking the right questions, supporting their staff well, or seeing the full picture of where AI is already operating.
This intensive is designed to move leaders from uncertainty to preparedness, regardless of where they're starting from. Whether you've barely begun or you're well into implementation, the goal is the same: a clearer view of your AI landscape, a stronger framework for leading staff through change, and a practical sense of what to do next.
In 3 focused hours, you'll build a leader-focused understanding of AI, examine how staff typically respond to AI-driven change, and begin mapping your organization's current AI landscape, including the parts that may not yet be visible to you. This is a working session, not a lecture. Expect breakout discussions, structured reflection time, on-camera and on-mic sharing with peers, and a print-ahead workbook designed to capture your thinking as you go.
WHAT YOU'LL GAIN:
- A Clear, Non-Technical Understanding of AI: What it is, what it isn't, and why it matters specifically for library leadership, without the jargon or the hype.
- Insight Into Staff Reactions Through the SCARF Framework: Understand how Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness shape responses to AI-driven change, and learn strategies for leading in ways that reduce threat and build trust.
- Practical Language for Leading Conversations: Approaches for talking with staff about AI expectations, boundaries, and evolving practices, so you can lead the conversation instead of reacting to it.
- A Draft Stakeholder Map: Identify who is affected by AI-related decisions across departments, administration, governance, IT, vendors, and external partners.
- A Draft Current State Map: Capture where AI is already showing up in workflows, decisions, and vendor tools, including what's working and where questions or risks are emerging.
- A Leadership-Oriented Next Steps Checklist: A practical guide to common considerations for libraries at any stage of their AI work, from initial readiness to active implementation.
WHO THIS INTENSIVE IS FOR:
This session is designed for library directors, managers, supervisors, department heads, and senior staff who want to feel more prepared to lead their organizations through AI-driven change. It is appropriate for leaders just beginning to think about AI as well as those who already have policies, working groups, or pilot projects underway. It is suitable for public, school, academic, and special libraries.
This 3-hour online intensive is part of our "AI for Leaders" Series. The recording and presentation slides will be available to all who register, along with the workbook and frameworks you can adapt to your local context immediately after the session.
DATE: May 29th, 2026, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm US - Eastern Time
COST:
- $299/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: $249 each for 3+ registrations, $199 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: $499.
- Large-scale institutional access for viewing with individual login capability: $999 (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.
