Webinar: The Ultimate AI Policy for Your (Public, Academic, Museum, etc.) Library
Presenter: Stephanie “Cole” Adams
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Location: online via Zoom Webinar – the webinar will be recorded

Artificial Intelligence is on the rise, and it is impacting everything from information science to disability accommodations.

As centers of information access and media literacy, libraries must be places where trustworthy AI is used with confidence. But how does a library evaluate, monitor, and continually re-assess AI tools?

Join us for an interactive session where we will review the reasons, risks, priorities, and a template policy for using AI tools at your library.

Registrants will be able to submit questions in advance and during the session.

Please join us as New York’s libraries continue to lead the way in becoming strong, confident, trusted users of AI.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This session is for any library, museum, or archive. Directors, reference librarians, trustees, academic officers responsible for libraries, public relations workers, library workers, general counsel, risk managers, sustainability-related personnel, procurement specialists, IT team, and anyone nervous that AI is about to take their job.

About the presenter: Stephanie “Cole” Adams is an attorney who represents libraries, educators, students, and creative professionals. Cole provides the Ask the Lawyer service that New York State’s nine library resource councils provide to each library in the state. She is a member of the ALA Lawyers for Libraries faculty, the Vice Chair of the Erie County Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Committee, and served as the General Counsel of Niagara University for over ten years. Cole is a proud graduate of SUNY Buffalo School of Law and Hampshire College.