{"id":226212,"date":"2026-06-04T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/carolina-launches-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-local-communities\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:35:10","slug":"carolina-launches-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-local-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/carolina-launches-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-local-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina launches study on libraries and generative AI in local communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/06\/04\/carolina-launches-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-local-communities\/\">Carolina launches study on libraries and generative AI in local communities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/06\/04\/carolina-launches-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-local-communities\/\">https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/06\/04\/carolina-launches-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-local-communities\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 14:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.unc.edu\">www.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UNC-Chapel Hill has initiated a two-year collaborative study, &#8220;Local Libraries and Generative AI,&#8221; focusing on understanding how North Carolina communities are dealing with generative AI and how local libraries can support AI literacy.<\/li>\n<li>The project aims to develop practical, sustainable approaches to AI literacy that meet the needs of diverse North Carolinian communities and was announced during Chancellor Lee H. Roberts\u2019 eastern North Carolina tour.<\/li>\n<li>Led by Diane Kelly and Mar\u00eda R. Estorino in collaboration with Michelle Underhill, the study emphasizes listening, assessment, and co-design for equitable AI engagement.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative addresses the challenges many North Carolina communities face due to AI, including infrastructure, training, and access issues, relying on the trusted community anchoring role of public and community college libraries.<\/li>\n<li>It is organized into five phases over three years (2026-2028) with two sequential cohorts of participating public libraries to better understand local needs and institutional capacity.<\/li>\n<li>The project aims to generate actionable insights by grounding future AI literacy work in evidence, trust, and community partnership, ensuring that these efforts are realistic and sustainable.<\/li>\n<li>It emphasizes collaborative learning to explore how generative AI affects different communities, ensuring their voices are included in shaping the future of information access and digital literacy.<\/li>\n<li>The study contributes to broader efforts ensuring equitable participation in an AI-shaped information environment and leverages the connections of the Library of North Carolina to support this initiative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina launches study on libraries and generative AI in local communities https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/06\/04\/carolina-launches-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-local-communities\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/library-ai-community-announcement.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-226212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226214,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226212\/revisions\/226214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}