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Designing Instructional Strategies for Teaching AI Use in Library Instruction
Instructors: Erica Nekolaichuk and Kaitlin Fuller
Approved for 2 contact hours
*Date and time: November 25th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST
Format: Online
Information professionals are often tasked with teaching others how to find information, both in academic and clinical settings. This role, while having always been important, is crucial now, as generative AI is rapidly changing how information is accessed, interpreted, and shared, and misinformation abounds. This workshop, designed for any information professionals involved in teaching, will help participants create activities that develop their learners' awareness and critical thinking regarding the use of generative AI. It will focus on instructional design and lesson planning, structured around three key pillars: situational factors, learning outcomes, and active learning.
This workshop is for people who want to think deeply and collaboratively about their instructional practices related to teaching AI literacy. The facilitators will lead participants through a variety of activities and will draw on the collective experiences of participants as well as the instructors’ own experience teaching AI search engines. This workshop will not use breakout groups. Instead, participants will engage in discussions through open text polls, create learning objectives and activities on Google Slides, share feedback collectively, and will provide participants with dedicated time to explore and reflect on how to incorporate AI literacy into their teaching.
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
Apply a backwards design process to develop a group instructional session on topics related to AI literacy
Discuss challenges and opportunities related to teaching AI literacy in group settings
Identify situational factors at your library and institution, and consider how these impact your instructional design
Create learning objectives for an instructional session on topics related to AI literacy
Design workshop activities to assist participants' achievement of learning objectives
Erica Nekolaichuk is an instructional librarian with the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto. She has a Masters in the history of medicine from McGill and completed library school at Western University in 2012. She is a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Information where she developed and occasionally teaches a course called Evidence-Based Healthcare for Librarians. Her current research interests are in testing the performance of academic AI search engines.
Kaitlin Fuller, MLIS, is a Scholarly Communications and Health Sciences Librarian at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). Before joining StFX, she worked as a liaison librarian to the MD Program at the University of Toronto. Kaitlin has also taught as a co-instructor of the Health Sciences Literature & Information Resources course at Dalhousie University, as faculty in the Library and Information Technology program at Nova Scotia Community College, and as a sessional lecturer at the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include librarian teaching practices, search strategies for knowledge synthesis, and the evaluation of academic AI search engines.
5 Key Steps to Creating Validated Search Filters
Instructor: Lynda Ayiku
Level: Introductory
Approved for 1 contact hour
*
Have you ever wondered how to build your own validated search filter? Whether you're an experienced searcher or new to knowledge synthesis, this session will guide you through the essential steps to create high-quality, validated search filters using a “Gold Standard” set of references.
Format:
30-minute pre-recorded video (available upon registration)
30-minute online Q&A session - November 3, 2025 at 12 pm (EST)
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
Distinguish between validated and non-validated search filters, and why this matters
Describe techniques to identify and generate a ‘Gold Standard’ set of references for a topic
Identify strategies to develop a search filter using a ‘development set’ (Gold Standard subset)
Describe how to validate a search filter using a ‘validation set’ (Gold Standard subset)
Describe how the recall/sensitivity retrieval performance measure is used to evaluate search filter effectiveness
Outline how the precision, specificity, and Number Needed to Read (NNR) retrieval performance measures are used to evaluate search filter efficiency
Lynda Ayiku is a Senior Information Specialist at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom. Her role involves conducting systematic literature searches for national evidence-based products such as guidelines and conducting scoping searches for health technology assessment guidance, and guidance/advice on digital medical devices. Lynda's research interest in developing validated search filters has led to the development of filters for geographic regions (the UK and OECD countries) and digital health interventions (apps and artificial intelligence).
The Continuing Education section of the Governance Manual has more information on:
- CHLA/ABSC Continuing Education Course Development and Delivery Policy
- Guidelines for Accreditation of CHLA/ABSC Continuing Education Courses
- Journal Club Requirements for CHLA/ABSC CE accreditation
The Workshop Planning Manual is also available.
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Continuing Education Courses
This Roster lists CHLA/ABSC accredited courses that chapter and conference organizers can draw from during Continuing Education Workshop planning. The roster will be updated as new courses are developed and accredited. If you have attended or have given a workshop, course or information session that you think your colleagues would benefit from, please let us know by sending an e-mail to the CE Coordinator and put CE Roster in the subject field.
Conference CE Workshops (Accredited for 3 years)
Learning Canadian Legal Literature in the Health Care Context
Instructor: Dr. David H. Michels
Level: Introductory
Approved for 2 contact hours
Accreditation: May 24, 2023 to May 23, 2026
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Recognize different types of legal literature reflected in these case studies
- Use the appropriate tools to explore the issues in these case studies
- Feel more confident in navigating legal materials to explore similar issues in health and workplace law and practice.
Supporting the Development and Content Management of Policy Documents in Healthcare Organizations: Roles for Library Professionals
Instructor: Michelle Helliwell
Level: Introductory
Approved for 3 contact hours
Accreditation: June 2, 2023 to June 1, 2026
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Understand the function of different policy documents
- Understand the key factors that make a successful policy development team
- Identify key knowledge, skills and behaviors Library Professionals with varying responsibilities have to offer their organizations to support both policy development and content management
- Understand the document control and content management considerations of policy documents that could be supported by Library Professionals with varying responsibilities
* As per the 2015 Bilateral Agreement between CHLA/ABSC and MLA, CHLA/ABSC may grant CHLA/ABSC credit (CEU) according to criteria established by CHLA/ABSC for MLA-based courses taught in Canada. MLA will recognize CHLA/ABSC CE approved courses as being equivalent to MLA CE credits. CHLA/ABSC members taking an MLA course in Canada may receive MLA credit. CHLA/ABSC may use MLA owned continuing education syllabi supplemented by appropriate Canadian content for teaching in a Canadian context as the basis for its own continuing education programs.
