AI walks up to the reference desk every day now, often with a patron holding a book title a chatbot invented. We teach the class that catches up with it: plain English, hands on, paced for the mix of people who walk through your doors on a Tuesday.
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Most AI trainers plan for a conference crowd. We plan for the mix that walks through your doors on a Tuesday, because that is the room we teach every week.
The regulars who arrive before the doors are fully open and sit up front. Large print handouts, patient pacing, and a presenter within arm's reach the whole session.
The patron who whispers that they have never touched this stuff. By the end of the first class they have had a real conversation with an AI on their own phone, and they usually stay late to keep going.
Someone always shows up already using AI every day. The prompt skills class exists so that person books the next session instead of getting bored in this one.
AI curiosity walks into your building every day, and lately it arrives holding a book title ChatGPT invented. A live class catches the curiosity and teaches patrons to double-check the machine.
Self-paced tutorials get abandoned by lunch. A live room with help standing beside you gets people all the way through, and finished patrons come back for part two.
We arrive early, test your wifi, and carry our own backup hotspot in case it groans. Your team unlocks the room and takes the credit.
We hand you a paste-ready program description before the event and help you capture attendance and photos after, so the write-up for your director nearly writes itself.
Part 1 fills part 2, and the staff session usually follows. We would rather earn the second booking than promise it, so the first one is free.
Every class is 90 minutes, live and hands on, and every class teaches the same core skill: how to communicate with AI when technology was never your thing. How to explain what you want in plain English, try what it gives you, check the answer, and ask again. The first 15 minutes get everyone settled, the next 15 explain AI in plain English, and the rest is you doing real work with our help. Five classes are for patrons; the sixth is shaped with library staff.
The front door. What AI is, what it does well, and where it falls on its face, all in plain English. Then everyone tries it on whatever device they brought. Watching someone light up at their first real answer is why we do this.
Everyone arrives with one thing they keep putting off: a letter, a form, a decision, a pile of recipes. We work through real examples together, then you practice on yours. This is a technology class, not advice, and we say so in the room and on the flyer.
Job hunting has its own kind of hard, and Doug is mid career-change himself so he will not sugarcoat it. Resume rewrites on screen, interview practice out loud, and straight talk about what AI can and cannot fix.
For the crowd that keeps losing the sticky notes. We set up one place that catches every thought and teach AI to do the filing. The goal by the end: your system, alive on your own phone, with take-home files so it survives the weekend.
For your daily AI users, and every library has more of them than it thinks. A set of techniques most people have never seen, practiced live against their own real work until each one holds up.
A working session built with your director, not a lecture at your staff. We bring what we know about teaching AI, and your team tells us where it would help: patrons asking about AI-invented book titles, drafting program descriptions, whatever your desk runs into. The agenda gets set with you before the date is booked.
One of us stays at the projector running the demos. The other never stops moving, crouched beside whoever quietly fell behind until they are caught up. Help arrives before anyone has to say out loud that they need it.
Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess and the Harlem Valley. Find yours, get its hours and contact page, and ask for a class there or tell us you want one.
Westchester's five biggest communities by population, plus every county we cover. Harlem Valley libraries sit inside the three counties, so they show up in those counts too.
What changed in AI that is worth your attention, plus one small thing to try. Plain English, no hype, written by the same two people who teach the classes. Unsubscribe whenever.
One came to AI at 50 with zero tech background. One builds with it every day. Between them, every kind of learner in your room is covered.
Doug spent three decades in hotel hospitality and ran a print shop on the side, then picked up AI at 50 without a single day of technical training. He knows exactly which step loses people, because every one of those steps lost him once. During class he is the presenter crouched next to your patrons, getting them unstuck before frustration wins.
The technical half of the team, and the one who first put AI in front of Doug and watched it click. Alex builds with these tools daily, drives every demo from the projector, and has a knack for making each step look like something you could do yourself. Which is the point, because you can.
Written after enough booking conversations to know what the real questions are. Tap any question to open it.
No presenter fee for your first two classes. We want the room and you will want the receipts. After that we ask a modest honorarium sized to your programming budget. Some libraries cover it from programming funds, some with help from a Friends group when they have one. There is no state humanities speaker fund for public libraries in New York, so we keep the ask small and the conversation simple. Patrons never pay to attend, ever.
No, and we know why you have to ask. Nothing is sold in the room, no patron is ever asked to buy anything, and the take-home materials are free. Your programming policy bans solicitation and ours agrees with it.
That is the exact reason this exists. Patrons now walk up holding book titles an AI invented, and somebody at your desk gets to break the news. The staff session covers the fake-citation problem head on, and the patron classes teach people to double-check the machine before they drive to the library.
Chairs, a screen or a blank wall, and whatever wifi you have. We carry our own adapters, a backup hotspot, and a microphone, and we arrive 45 minutes early to test everything. If the tech dies anyway we teach the paper version.
We bring a sign-in sheet, take a headcount for you, grab photos if your policy allows, and email you a short summary the next morning. Your board report bullet writes itself, and a repeat series builds the attendance curve your director wants to see.
Weekday late morning or early afternoon fills best for adult programs, Wednesdays and Thursdays especially. We stay clear of your summer reading crunch unless you want us in the middle of it.
Home turf is the Hudson Valley and Westchester, and we go farther when the calendar allows. Senior centers, community rooms and outreach locations get the same class.
Because track records beat promises. Your first two bookings cost nothing, we collect the attendance numbers and the feedback, and the next library pays the honorarium because yours proved it works. That is the whole business model, said out loud.
Libraries, senior centers, and community groups. Tell us your library, your crowd, and a month that could work. We reply within two days with date options and a paste-ready program description for your newsletter. A patron rather than a coordinator? Ask for us at your library's front desk, or write to alex@libraryaicourses.com. A patron request is how most bookings start.
No commitment, this starts the conversation.