Fishkill, New York

Blodgett Memorial Library

Two free 90-minute AI classes for your patrons — no presenter fee for the library.

Making flyers and posters without asking a favor

Every club, church, and committee I have ever belonged to needed the same person, the one who could make a decent flyer. She moved to Arizona. Here is the good news. Between the chat programs and a free design site called Canva, the rest of us can now make a presentable flyer in twenty minutes. The division of labor matters. The chat program writes, Canva arranges. Tell the chat program the facts and the audience. It is a spaghetti supper at the firehouse, Saturday October 18, five to eight, twelve dollars, kids under ten free, proceeds go to the ambulance corps, and I want a warm short headline and a line that makes people smile. It will give you a headline, a subheading, and the wording for the details block in a tidier form than most of us manage. Copy the best lines, open Canva, pick flyer from the templates, and paste your text into the boxes. Canva handles the fonts and the layout, and its free tier covers everything a church bulletin needs. If you want a picture, Canva has a library of free ones, or you can ask the chat program's image maker for something specific, like a friendly cartoon pot of spaghetti, and drop that in. Print at the library, most charge well under a quarter a page, or send it straight to the church secretary by email. The first one takes twenty minutes. The second one takes six. By the third, you are the person who makes the flyers, and you did not have to ask anyone a favor.

AI, in plain English three small answers, no jargon

AI and your privacy

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.

The one skill that unlocks AI

Briefing. Tell the AI who you are, what you want, and what shape of answer helps, the way you would brief a capable new hire. Vague in, vague out.

Chatbots vs. agents

A chatbot answers; an agent acts, planning steps and using tools before reporting back. Agents are the newer, clunkier technology: powerful when they work, supervised when it matters.

Blodgett Memorial Library provides a wide range of information and materials, using traditional and innovative methods, for all ages to promote, encourage, and support the diverse needs within the community.

From the library's own site, source.

Visit or contact

Hours change with the season, so we link the library's own site instead of copying a schedule that could go stale.

Get an AI class here

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 Blodgett Memorial Library and we will count you in when we schedule one there.

Tell us you want a class here →

What you’ll find there

  • Museum passes
  • Library of Things
  • Local history and genealogy
  • E-books, audiobooks (Libby/OverDrive)
  • Streaming movies (Kanopy)

Collected from the library’s own website. Availability changes — confirm details on their site.

Two free AI classes for Blodgett Memorial Library

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.

For library staff

Reply “send dates” to our email and we’ll send available times within a day. Or start here:

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No presenter fee. No contract. You provide the room, chairs and wifi — we bring everything else.

How booking works · browse all six class topics (no email needed)

I’m a patron of this library

Want a class here? Leave your email and we’ll tell you if one gets scheduled at Blodgett Memorial 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.

Is this a sales pitch to our patrons?

No. Nothing is sold or pitched in the room, and patrons never pay to attend. Take-home materials are free.

What’s the catch on “two free classes”?

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.

What do we need to provide?

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 →