Two free 90-minute AI classes for your patrons — no presenter fee for the library.
Four names, four companies, and a lot of overlapping ability. Here is the short field guide. ChatGPT, from OpenAI, is the general purpose one. It is the best all around choice if you want a single assistant for writing, explaining, planning, and brainstorming, and the free version is now unlimited for typed chat. Microsoft Copilot is the one that lives inside Word, Excel, and Outlook. If your life is already in Microsoft Office, Copilot is the convenient pick because it can work on your actual documents and spreadsheets from inside the programs themselves. It now comes bundled with Microsoft 365 subscriptions rather than as its own separate purchase. Google Gemini is woven through Gmail, Google Docs, and Android phones. If your email is Gmail and your photos live in Google Photos, Gemini is the natural fit, and its free tier is generous. Siri, from Apple, is the one already on your iPhone, and the rebuilt version, called Siri AI, arrives as a free update with iOS 27 this fall on recent models. It is tuned to know your own calendar, messages, and photos, with privacy handled on the device. The practical advice I give friends is simple. You probably already belong to one of these camps, Apple people, Google people, or Microsoft people, and the assistant built into your camp will serve you well. If you want a second opinion on anything important, keep one of the others installed too. Asking two programs the same question and comparing answers costs a minute and catches most mistakes.
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The clear trend is from chatbots that answer to assistants that do: book, file, buy, and follow up on your behalf. Trust in them will grow slowly, and honestly, it should.
A patient tutor available at midnight is genuinely new. AI explains a concept five ways and quizzes you until it clicks; it can also be wrong, so keep asking how it knows.
Treat AI chats like a postcard, not a diary: fine for recipes and resumes, wrong for passwords or confidential matters. Check an app's settings before sharing anything sensitive.
VISION STATEMENT CCL will meet the evolving and dynamic needs of the community and will be a center for community members to find resources, responsive services, information, technology, and programs that enhance and inspire learning, creativity, and civic engagement in a sustainable, accessible facility. FOUNDATIONS The Clinton Community Library was founded in 1965 to serve the Town of Clinton, which uniquely combines seven former hamlets and sends its children to five outside school districts. In 1976 a new building, shared with the town, was dedicated to house the growing Clinton Community Library Reading Center, and finally in 2004 the Clinton Community Library was provisionally chartered, with a permanent charter granted in 2018. Today, CCL, housed in the same building on the town campus, is an Association Library under the laws of New York State and a 501(c)(3) organization under federal tax laws.
From the library's own site, source.
Hours change with the season, so we link the library's own site instead of copying a schedule that could go stale.
Path one: ask the library directly. Patron requests carry real weight with program coordinators, and their website and phone number are linked above.
Path two: tell us you want a class at Clinton Community Library and we will count you in when we schedule one there.
Collected from the library’s own website. Availability changes — confirm details on their site.
Live, beginner-friendly, 90 minutes each. Your first two classes cost $0, including the presenter fee — bring us in, see how your community responds, then decide.
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No presenter fee. No contract. You provide the room, chairs and wifi — we bring everything else.
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Want a class here? Leave your email and we’ll tell you if one gets scheduled at Clinton Community Library — and pass the count to their program coordinator.
One email only when scheduling news exists. Or call the library and say you’d attend — patron requests carry real weight.
Heard about us from a neighbor? Forward this page to whoever books programs at your library.
No. Nothing is sold or pitched in the room, and patrons never pay to attend. Take-home materials are free.
None, and here is the model: your first two classes cost you nothing, we collect attendance and feedback, and the next library books us because yours proved it works. Repeat classes after that are a modest honorarium sized to your budget.
A room, chairs, and wifi. We bring the projector, adapters, a backup hotspot, printed handouts — every attendee leaves with a printed AI cheat sheet.
Library AI Courses teaches free, live, 90 minute AI classes at public libraries across the region. A listing here is a directory entry, not an endorsement by the library. Classes get scheduled when a library books one or enough patrons ask. Library staff: how booking works →