The Georgia Tech Library has been awarded $195,245 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to conduct a forum focused on academic library accessibility after the Title II implementation deadline. The forum will examine the topic through two complementary lenses: Internal Operations and Implementation, including workflows, governance, and responsible artificial intelligence-assisted remediation; and External Ecosystems and Accountability, including campus partnerships, vendor relations, and user-facing impacts. Georgia Tech will host the forum at the Library in May 2027.
Project outcomes will include a 75-page Sustaining Compliance Playbook; an openly accessible collection in the Georgia Tech Digital Repository featuring recordings of presentations from the forum's first day; and a moderated community of practice listserv designed to support adoption and shared learning beyond the convening. Partner organizations will help identify experts, promote the forum, contribute editorial guidance to the playbook, and support the community of practice. Participating organizations include the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, Clemson University, Emory University, Florida State University, Georgia State University, North Carolina State University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Vanderbilt University.
The Library's grant team includes John Mack Freeman, principal investigator; August Engelsman, Matt Frizzell, Cliff Landis, Catherine Manci, Gabe Nagel, Cheryl Parker, Tiffany Roberts, and Leslie Sharp.
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Now available in the Georgia Tech Digital Repository: The Georgia Tech Library as an Innovation Hub: Fostering AI Literacy Through Interdisciplinary Conversation and Collaboration by Digital Learning and Instruction Librarian Justin Ellis. The publication appears in the Georgia Tech Academic AI Playbook.
Congratulations to John Mack Freeman, director of the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons and the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Success, on the recent publication of Discretion at the Desk: Street-Level Bureaucracy and Moral Agency in Frontline Academic Library Workers in the Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Congratulations to Georgia Tech Library Systems Technologist Thomas Waters on the publication of CompTIA Certification: An Introduction for Librarians in the latest issue of Computers in Libraries.