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AI and Machine Learning

The OCUL AI and Machine Learning Program grows collective technology expertise through hands-on, collaborative experience.

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OCUL provides Ontario university libraries with shared services and technology infrastructure to support academic teaching, research and learning.

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Through Omni, students, faculty and researchers can access over 25 million print resources and pick up requested items from any of the 19 partner universities in Ontario.

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Dive deep into the ethical challenges of AI with the Ontario Council of University Libraries’ (OCUL) new reading club, Beyond the Algorithm.

Open to any academic library worker, this bimonthly professional development series is designed to help participants navigate the evolving role of AI in librarianship as it affects human rights, environmentalism and emotion.

Each installment of the reading club will explore topics across three steps:

A new report shows how Ontario library professionals are using AI tools in their day-to-day work and their perspectives on these burgeoning technologies.

This past May, the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) surveyed its membership to better understand how AI tools are being used and where there are opportunities to develop AI-related professional development programming. 

As part of the capacity-building element of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) AI and Machine Learning Program, a new blog series is coming to LibTech Insights, the Choice content channel that examines the day-to-day impact of library and education tech on academic librarians.

The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is accepting proposals for the 2026 New Initiatives Fund (NIF).