{"id":18740,"date":"2025-09-04T20:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/?p=18740"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:01:24","slug":"artificial-intelligence-coi-for-hospital-librarians-in-region-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2025\/09\/04\/artificial-intelligence-coi-for-hospital-librarians-in-region-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence COI for Hospital Librarians in Region 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hospital librarians in Region 7 will have the opportunity to join a new Community of Interest (COI) in early 2026. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The COI will focus on the practical applications of AI in hospital libraries. Membership will be limited to 30 hospital librarians who work in Region 7 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). We will hold an informational meeting on Friday, December 12 at 12:00pm ET. Registration for the informational meeting is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/training\/class\/region-7-artificial-intelligence-coi-hospital-librarians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">available at this link<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During the informational meeting, we will poll participants to establish future meeting days and times. We will outline potential AI topics. Tools for literature searches, clinical queries, and patient education are especially applicable to a hospital library setting.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After the informational meeting, a <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">signup form will be distributed to <\/span>registrants<span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Membership will be limited to hospital librarians who work in Region 7. <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Registration for<span data-contrast=\"none\"> the informational meeting is required for participation in the COI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The meeting will be recorded for those who cannot attend the live session.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In future meetings, COI members will be expected to share an AI tool that they use and how they use it. We will create a \u201cResources for Getting Started\u201d document for distribution to non-members.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please send questions and comments to Margot Malachowski at the link below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital librarians in Region 7 will have the opportunity to join a new Community of Interest (COI) in early 2026. The COI will focus on the practical applications of AI in hospital libraries. Membership will be limited to 30 hospital librarians who work in Region 7 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2025\/09\/04\/artificial-intelligence-coi-for-hospital-librarians-in-region-7\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[590,119,120],"class_list":["post-18740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-of-interest","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-hospital-librarians","tag-hospital-library-advisory-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18740"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18756,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18740\/revisions\/18756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}