{"id":2689,"date":"2025-12-18T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:05:07","slug":"intro-to-ai-for-librarians-back-to-basics-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/intro-to-ai-for-librarians-back-to-basics-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to AI for Librarians: Back to Basics Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scla.wildapricot.org\/event-6441592?CalendarViewType=1&amp;SelectedDate=1\/17\/2026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2690\" src=\"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766095158083-28078602-77a5-4034-a7fc-95d7fe9ef718_1-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766095158083-28078602-77a5-4034-a7fc-95d7fe9ef718_1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766095158083-28078602-77a5-4034-a7fc-95d7fe9ef718_1-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766095158083-28078602-77a5-4034-a7fc-95d7fe9ef718_1.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The RASD Emerging Technologies Committee will be presenting\u00a0<b><a title=\"https:\/\/scla.wildapricot.org\/event-6441592?CalendarViewType=1&amp;SelectedDate=1\/17\/2026\" href=\"https:\/\/scla.wildapricot.org\/event-6441592?CalendarViewType=1&amp;SelectedDate=1\/17\/2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Intro to AI for Librarians: Back to Basics Workshop<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a0<b>Wednesday, January, 14th at 1:00 pm on ZOOM<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will be led by Josh Varon from\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/varonconsulting.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/varonconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Varon Consulting, LLC<\/a>\u00a0and topics will include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>What AI is (and what it isn\u2019t)<\/li>\n<li>Key terms explained in plain language<\/li>\n<li>Realistic ways AI may impact library work and services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No tech background required. Just the fundamentals, tailored for librarians!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/scla.wildapricot.org\/event-6441592?CalendarViewType=1&amp;SelectedDate=1\/17\/2026\" href=\"https:\/\/scla.wildapricot.org\/event-6441592?CalendarViewType=1&amp;SelectedDate=1\/17\/2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Register Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RASD Emerging Technologies Committee will be presenting\u00a0Intro to AI for Librarians: Back to Basics Workshop\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday, January, 14th at 1:00 pm on ZOOM. The workshop will be led by Josh Varon from\u00a0Varon Consulting, LLC\u00a0and topics will include: What AI is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/intro-to-ai-for-librarians-back-to-basics-workshop\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/rasd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}