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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) at UVic Libraries

GenAI tools have wide-reaching implications for how our users create and discover knowledge, and how we collect, organize, and preserve it.  

UVic Libraries is actively engaged in learning about GenAI tools and helping you use them safely and ethically in your learning, study, and work at UVic. 

Students

• Browse our online guide to understanding GenAI, including key concepts and terminology.  
• Consult our online guide to citing text and images created by GenAI tools. 
• Take one of our AI workshops to get a general introduction to generative AI, or learn more about specific topics like AI transcription tools and prompt engineering.
• Always review UVic’s position statement on generative AI before using GenAI tools in your coursework. 
• Take our asynchronous workshop on Prompt Design for Beginners. You will learn how to create effective prompts for querying large language models (LLMs).

Instructors

• We offer short, downloadable PowerPoint modules on topics like AI basics, AI ethics and safety, citing AI, and AI terminology.  You can include these modules in Brightspace courses, deliver them yourself, ask students to review them independently, or invite a librarian to present them to your class. 
• Your subject liaison librarian can help you explore AI-literate research assignments for your students. 

Researchers

• We are developing a Whisper server.  Whisper is a GenAI tool for transcribing audio recordings such as archival interviews. Investing in our own local server allows us to take advantage of rapid transcription of our unique local collections while preserving data privacy. 
• We are building staff expertise with Transkribus. Transkribus is a GenAI tool for transcribing handwritten documents such as manuscripts and letters. Investing in Transkribus allows us to digitize our unique collections in Special Collections and Archives for broader access and use. 
• We house and partner with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre, who specialize in creating sustainable, machine-readable digital editions, and with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, who provide technology training for scholars in arts, humanities, libraries and archives.

Community

• Our 2023 University Librarian’s Lecture invited Elizabeth Denham CBE, Brewster Kahle, Masud Khokhar, Michael Ridley, and Dave Obee to discuss emerging issues in artificial intelligence. Watch the recording. 
• Our online guides and workshops are freely available to everyone, any time. 

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