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This session explores how K–12 media specialists and academic librarians can work together to build strong, sustainable pathways for AI and media literacy. The program highlights shared challenges, practical teaching strategies, and collaborative tools that support students as they move from foundational learning through higher education and beyond.

Participants learn how these partnerships can strengthen critical thinking, ethical AI and media use, and research skills throughout a lifetime. We offer real‑world examples and easy starting points for anyone interested in creating a connected, future‑ready learning community.

Presenters: 

Brooke Becker, MLIS, serves as the Media Literacy Librarian and subject liaison to Communication Studies, Political Science & Public Administration, and Psychology, Ms. Becker is the co-author of the article "The Rise of AI and the Evolution of the Academic Librarian" as well as two forthcoming book chapters dealing with media literacy and faculty/K-12 partnerships. Ms. Becker is passionate about travel, her scrappy furball friends, and ensuring media and AI literacy become as well-known and popular as the Eras Tour.

Summer Upton spent two decades in Alabama public high schools as a classroom teacher and library media specialist before joining the faculty of UAB Libraries in 2024. She holds degrees in secondary English language arts education and P-12 library media. She currently serves as Reference Librarian for Education and Educational Technology and liaison to the UAB School of Education and Human Sciences. Ms. Upton loves spending time with her nieces and nephews, reading children's and young adult books,  traveling as much as her budget allows, and caring for her geriatric cat Scout. 

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Hosted by FLVC
 

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Students and faculty find themselves in a precarious position, as they are both encouraged to integrate AI tools into their research and teaching practice, but also remain wary of the accuracy and reliability of their outputs. As conversations shift to the importance of evaluating and verifying information provided by AI tools, we need to put these practices into habit. This presentation will explore a key element of AI literacy: the evaluation process. In this session, attendees will learn about the very real issue of AI hallucinated citations and walk away with a verification process to use with patrons turning to LLM AI tools as research partners in locating scholarly sources. 

As researchers increasingly turn to large language model tools to try and discover information on a topic, they are encountering hallucinated citations masking as real, legitimate sources. Hallucinated citations are citations provided by large language models that do not actually exist. They may be made up of real and imagined elements, but do not correspond with a real world source. Reference accuracy is a vital element of scholarship. There are already documented cases of hallucinated citations making their way into peer reviewed scholarly literature, legal briefs, and, worryingly, into Google Scholar. If not caught, these hallucinations can propagate and amplify misinformation, poison scholarly databases, erode trust in the research process, and lead to reputational consequences for scholars.  

This webinar will help librarians understand what AI hallucinated citations are and how they can go about helping patrons verify sources provided to them by AI tools. Attendees will be taken through a step-by-step verification process that they can replicate with patrons to ensure that sources provided by large language models are real, legitimate, and relevant. While many librarians are coming to understand the limits in scope and ability that popular AI chatbots offer as research tools, this workshop will also encourage them to hold critical conversations with patrons as they work to assess AI outputs for research. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Define what an AI hallucinated citation is and describe their implications to research and learning. 
• Distinguish between an AI hallucinated citation and real scholarly citation. 
• Help patrons and students verify citations provided by AI tools or suspected of being hallucinations.

Presenter:

Natalie Ornat-Bitting is the Humanities Librarian and Associate Professor at UNC Charlotte.  

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Hosted by NC LIVE

Location

Chancellor Ballroom
I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center
1900 South First Street, Champaign

Agenda

9:30 Continental breakfast

10:15 a.m. Welcome and CARLI Update

Speaker: Michele Boule Smith, Chair, CARLI Governance Board, Director of Library Services at North Central College
Speaker: Laurie Blandino, CARLI Director
Speaker: Sarah Zehr Gantz, Senior Assistant Vice President for Academic Initiatives and Policies, University of Illinois System

11:00 a.m. What Illinois Academic and Research Libraries Need: A Working Session on Value and Advocacy

Facilitator: Kara Malenfant, Assistant Professor, Dominican University School of Information Studies
Facilitator: Devin Savage, Library Dean, Lake Forest College

A facilitated working session on what academic libraries in Illinois need to make the case for their value on their own campuses, and where the gaps are between the advocacy resources that already exist and what libraries can actually use. This session is designed as a working conversation. Input gathered here will inform the continuing work of the CARLI Advocacy Task Force.

12:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15 p.m. Keynote Address: Advancing the Academic Library Agenda for Higher Education in Illinois

Speaker: John Chrastka, Executive Director, EveryLibrary

Academic libraries are key partners in shaping the future of higher education in Illinois. Join John Chrastka, executive director of EveryLibrary, the national political action committee for libraries, for a keynote presentation that will explore a positive, theory-of-change approach to advocacy that moves beyond defensive actions and into a framework where academic libraries are helping to build the systems of support that contribute to institutional capacity, student success, research, academic freedom, and statewide higher education goals. We will examine emerging issues in Springfield and Washington, including higher education funding, accreditation reform, federal policy disruption, and the evolving role of libraries in institutional quality and accountability. The session will demonstrate ways for you to strengthen relationships with campus leaders, faculty, students, policymakers, and other higher education stakeholders.

2:15 p.m. Afternoon Table Talks (in person attendees only)

1. ADA Title II: Challenges for Archives, Special Collections, and Beyond
   Facilitators: Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Illinois State University and Matt Gorzalski, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2. E-Resource Workers: Advocating for Ourselves, Our Institutions, and Our Profession 
   Facilitators: Brittany Poku, North Park University and Marisa Tolbert, CARLI
3. Let's Talk E-Resources: What's Working and What Could Work Better?
   Facilitator: Ann Johnston, Olivet Nazarene University
4. Getting Users Excited About I-Share and Interlibrary Loan
   Facilitator: Janelle Sander, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5. Advocating for OER
   Facilitators: Yasmine Abou-el Kheir, City Colleges of Chicago; Daniel Matthews, Moraine Valley Community College; and Mackenzie Salisbury, Northwestern University
6. Flipping the Script: Advocating for Your Library During Campus Tours and Orientation
7. Supporting Access to Information in a Restrictive Climate
   Facilitator: Ricardo Rodriguez, Dominican University and Mitchell Haas, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
8. Passing the Keys: Succession Planning and Staff Transitions
   Facilitators: Leslie Starasta, Illinois State Library, and Stephanie Fletcher, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
9. Keep the Conversation Going with John Chrastka

Registration

Anyone may register to attend the CARLI Annual Meeting!

To register to attend in-person, please click on the "Register" tab above. The registration deadline is November 3.

We are also providing a virtual streaming option for those who wish to attend online. To attend virtually,register here.

If you need to cancel your in-person registration, please email CARLI Support.

If you are a CARLI director, or a CARLI director's designee and planning to attend the Directors Meeting before the Annual Meeting, please register for that meeting as well.

Room Block

There are a limited number of rooms in a block available at the I Hotel for guests that require an overnight stay. You can book this reservation online or if you call, you need mention the code CARLI1126 when making the reservation. Here is the booking information for an online booking. Use this link for making a reservation.

You will enter:

• Group/Block Code: CARLI1126
• Guest Password: 9mj#o

Interested in Carpooling to Champaign?

CARLI occasionally receives questions from members about shared transportation options for the CARLI Annual Meeting. For those who would like to try this option, we have created a carpooling event for the Annual Meeting using the freely available service Group Carpool.com.

Carpool and Ride Share Signup Sheet for your Group

• Drivers will need to add their vehicles.
• Riders (once a vehicle is available) can join the ride. There’s a waitlist for riders needing vehicles.
• You’ll need to make your own arrangements for meeting each other.
• CARLI is not responsible for these arrangements, and is not reimbursing for travel expenses.

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