Where Does Your Library Stand? A Hands-On AI Maturity Assessment Workshop

This participatory workshop invites attendees to work through the AI Maturity Index for Academic Libraries together and to use their results as a catalyst for structured conversation about AI assessment, planning, prioritization, readiness, and governance gaps. The workshop’s value is not the tool itself; it’s the dialogue the tool generates among library staff with different roles, vantage points, and institutional contexts. Attendees leave with a complete maturity profile, a set of facilitation strategies they can bring back to their own institutions, and a richer sense of where their peers stand collectively. The AI Maturity Index for Academic Libraries assesses eight dimensions of library practice: Collections, Discovery, Facilities, Instruction, Metadata, Preservation, Research and Governance, across five maturity levels. The Index understands that AI maturity is not determined by the amount of AI technology a library uses. Instead, it measures how effectively AI serves its users’ needs. It was designed not only as a diagnostic tool but as a conversation starter, a structure that surfaces the assumptions, values, and trade-offs embedded in how libraries are responding to AI. This workshop operationalizes that design intent. Rather than presenting findings about the Index, we use the session time to run the tool and to model the facilitated institutional dialogue it can support.

Sep 15, 2026 1:00 PM — 2:30 PM