AI Resources for Georgia's Public Libraries

AI Tools in Google Workspace

Libraries that are part of the GPLS hosted Google Workspace platform have access to Gemini and related AI tools through their Google accounts. These tools include:

Gemini: Your creative partner for brainstorming, drafting emails, and generating images. Gemini excels at text generation, summarization, translation, question answering, has Docs/Sheets/Slides integration, and code generation. Deep Research allows Gemini to go beyond its training data by searching the web for more/current information related to your query. Gems allow you to pre-prompt Gemini for a specific use case that you can come back to whenever needed.
NotebookLM: Your secure research assistant. Explore specific topics and ask questions about an isolated collection of data. Generate podcasts, videos, and study guides. Perfect for analyzing patron surveys or summarizing annual reports.
Google Vids: Your automated video producer. Turns your documents and ideas into promotional videos, tutorials, and announcements without needing any editing experience. Access to stock footage and images or generate your own AI images and video using Google Veo.

*Make sure your are signed in with your work Google account when using the tools above to ensure all data stays private and is not used by Google for model training or enhancement.

Gemini Training

“Cloud Skills Boost” provides 8 guided activities that will walk you through Gemini in Workspace

Gemini Support

Google has a web support platform to assist with any Gemini training needs - cheat sheets and use cases included!

Prompting Guide

Regularly updated AI prompting guide that helps you ask the right questions to get the best results

Ideas for Experimenting

Harvard has a great list of ideas to get your creativity flowing around how to best use AI

Examples to try:

Creating Engaging Content: Use Gemini to generate a short, engaging social media post promoting the library's summer reading program.
Summarizing Research: Paste a section of a library policy or a research article. Use Gemini to summarize the key points.
Answering Patron Inquiries or Emails: A patron asks, 'What are the library's hours on Sundays?' Use Gemini to draft a polite and informative response.
Brainstorming Program Ideas: Use Gemini to brainstorm ideas for a new library program for teenagers.
Translating Text: Translate existing information about library services into another language.
Prompt a reference interview, reader advisor suggestions: Generate a list of books to fit an upcoming theme.” / “Books to display or recommend based on season/events/interests.
Policy creation, reference documentation: Put multiple policy documents in NotebookLM and prompt for answers to specific questions/situations.
Provide a NOFO and get the group to generate a grant application: Provide a NOFO and a few sentences of your grant idea. Generate a grant application draft.
Generate a podcast using NotebookLM: Provide a few PDFs of a topic of interest, generate a podcast in NotebookLM.
Create custom programming for an event / Create a STEM program using uploaded manuals and quick start guides: Generate a 1 hour program using the following materials…
Generate press release drafts for library stories: Choose an upcoming anniversary that is of significance to your library. Use Gemini to draft a press release.
Create a “Gem” that can assist specific needs: Feed Gemini some rules and a “pre-prompt” to have it act as a specialized AI agent, called a “Gem”.

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