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Responsible Use of Digital Intelligence
AI Resource Center v0.1 · preview

AI Resource Center

A working home for everything Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library needs to roll out AI responsibly — literacy for staff, tools for managers, governance for leadership, and reassurance for patrons.

Designed in partnership with
RUDI
Brandon Z. Hoff · hoff@learnrudi.com
Scope
~900 staff · 42 branches
Executives → Managers → Staff
Phase 1Now
Executive Foundations
20 senior leaders · 60 min
Phase 2Next
Manager Activation
65 middle managers · by region
Phase 3Q3–Q4
Staff & Branch Rollout
~815 staff · mobile-first
Phase 4Ongoing
Pilots & Governance
Scheduling, patron FAQ, policy

Start here

Action · Phase 1 →
Take the executive survey

For the CHPL senior leadership cohort. Anonymous, mobile-friendly, ~5 minutes. Measures comfort, current usage, and concerns. No right or wrong answers.

Hosted on Tally · tally.so/r/1ADzEl
Preview →
Insights dashboard preview

See what your real results will look like once the survey closes. Sample data sized to CHPL's workforce and branches.

Sample data · replaced after Phase 1 closes
Plan →
Phased rollout plan

How we'd roll this out across 900 staff and 42 branches — without trying to train everyone at once.

Executives · Managers · Staff · Pilots

What this center will hold

This page becomes a living index. As CHPL builds its AI program, each piece below moves from a placeholder to a working resource.

ComingPhase 2
Approved tools list

Which AI tools are provisioned, which are off-limits, and why — for staff, managers, and patron-facing scenarios.

ComingPhase 2
Prompt library

Library-specific prompts: program write-ups, patron reference, scheduling, grant drafts, translation, accessibility.

ComingPhase 1
Governance principles

Draft principles from the Executive Foundations workshop. Patron privacy, intellectual freedom, energy & ethics, vendor lock-in.

ComingPhase 3
Patron-facing FAQ

Plain-language answers for the front desk: "Is the library using AI?" "Can I trust what it tells me?" "What about my data?"

ComingPhase 4
Training video library

Recordings of every workshop, indexed by topic. Self-paced for staff who can't attend live or want to revisit.

ComingPhase 4
Pilot tracker

Working pilots like scheduling/substitute coverage — what's live, who owns it, hours saved, what's next.

Posture

Mission-first, not productivity-first.

Libraries are the gatekeepers of trustworthy information. That makes the bar for AI here higher than in most workplaces — and it makes responsible-use framing the right place to start, not "how do I save 10 minutes on email?"

This center is designed around that order: demystify first, govern second, automate third. Staff get the language and the boundaries before they're handed the tools.