Two free 90-minute AI classes for your patrons — no presenter fee for the library.
I raised four kids on a grocery budget in the inflation years, and I thought I knew every trick. The chat programs taught me two new ones this year, and they are now part of the Saturday routine. The first is the list that shops the sales. I type in what the store has on special this week, the flyer is online, and what I have in the house, and ask for five dinners that use the sale items heavily and the pantry second. It plans around a pork shoulder and canned tomatoes like a home economist from a 1970s extension office, and it remembers that my husband will not eat cabbage if I tell it once. The second trick is the fine print. Store coupon policies, loyalty program rules, the warranty on the toaster, the prescription discount card's exclusions. Paste any of it in and ask, in one paragraph, what does this actually say and what should I watch for. It found a loyalty rule that had been quietly costing me a dollar a week on coffee for who knows how long. The cautions are the usual two. Prices and policies go stale, so the machine's memory of this week's special is worth checking against the flyer. And never let it do arithmetic on a bill without glancing at the total yourself, trust but verify, as the man said. It is not magic. It is a very patient clerk who reads everything, forgets nothing you tell it, and works Saturdays for free. On a fixed income, that turns out to be worth real money.
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An LLM is a word-prediction engine: given your sentence, it predicts a helpful continuation one piece at a time. That is why it writes fluently and still makes factual slips.
Predictions vary wildly, and honest ones admit the uncertainty. The pattern so far: AI absorbs tasks before whole jobs, and the people who learn the tools tend to do the absorbing.
A hallucination is the AI filling a gap with fluent invention. It is not lying; it is predicting plausible words. The defense is asking for sources, then actually checking them.
Richard Somers Hayes in memory of her husband. 1973 – Cary Wing added. 2002 – Non-Fiction Room and Children’s Room added. 2017 – Non-Fiction Room was renovated to add study rooms, and a Teen Room was added to the Children’s Room. In November 1901, a group of interested citizens met to organize a Free Library Association with the object of maintaining a library and reading room open to the inhabitants of the Town of Washington. Pingry A Board of Trustees was appointed to have general direction of all library affairs. Four of the original trustees served continuously for over 30 years, during which time the library grew from its humble beginning into a substantial public institution. The library was opened on February 16, 1902, in a vacant room of the high school building. The Annual Report for 1903 states, “It is due to the Board of Education that we express our appreciation of the use of the Library room, without any expense for rent, heat, light, or even janitor’s care, expenses that at present we are scarcely rich enough to bear”.
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 Millbrook 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 Millbrook 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 →