For WFU Faculty

ZSR Librarians are available to work with you to create a customized workshop or instruction session on using AI for research.

For Your Course

A course workshop is offered during your regularly scheduled class time, for 50-75 minutes. It can be included with a library instruction session that covers traditional research databases. To request a course workshop. contact your library liaison or submit an instruction request.

For You or Your Department

A departmental workshop or customized consultation can be offered for entire departments, specific groups, or interested faculty. To request a departmental workshop, contact your library liaison.

Goals and Outcomes

• Identify discipline-specific AI tools or tools for various aspects of the research process
• Experiment with AI tools hands-on to understand their capabilities and limitations
• Explore case studies demonstrating successful AI applications
• Discuss ethical considerations and best practices for AI integration
• Develop a plan for incorporating AI tools into their research and/or research assignments
• Evaluate AI output for accuracy, appropriateness, and comprehensiveness

Upcoming Workshops

Introducing AI Research Tools into your Research Workflow, Friday, April 10, 2-3:15pm, ZSR 476

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Curious how you or your students could use AI tools for scholarly research? Come to this collaborative, hands-on workshop for faculty where we will explore tools that aid in the discovery of relevant literature for literature reviews, including Scite.ai, Consensus, and Google Scholar Labs. Librarians will be on hand to provide guidance and answer questions related to each tool’s relative strengths and limitations, depth/breadth of coverage, and search strategies. We will also explore how NotebookLM can be used to support synthesis. We will close with a discussion/brainstorming session on the implications of these tools for student research. We look forward to learning with and from each other!