10 Great Ways to Use AI for Writing Well
A Library 2.0 AI Workshop with Crystal Trice
OVERVIEW:
Library work runs on writing. Newsletters, signage, social posts, board reports, grant narratives, and the delicate email to the patron who is having a hard day: it all has to get written, usually by someone who has eleven other things due. AI promises to help, and it can, but its default voice is generic, and readers can spot unedited AI text from across the room.
This workshop offers ten writing strategies that keep you the author. Rather than treating AI as a ghostwriter, this session positions AI as a drafting partner, an honest editor, and a tireless reviser, while your voice, your judgment, and your name stay on the work. Participants will see real examples and leave with techniques they can use on the next thing they write.
Good writing takes judgment, and that judgment stays with you. Used well, AI can break the blank page, offer a menu of options instead of a single take-it-or-leave-it draft, and take the drudgery out of trimming, adapting, and polishing, so your writing time goes to the thinking only you can do.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Apply ten specific AI strategies across the writing process, from first draft through revision, adaptation, and final polish
- Evaluate AI-generated text for accuracy, tone, and the telltale signs of machine-made writing
- Implement techniques that preserve your library's authentic voice across every AI-assisted piece
- Adapt one strong piece of writing into multiple formats, audiences, and reading levels
ACTIONABLE WORKSHOP ELEMENTS:
Over 60 minutes, participants will move through ten focused applications, each illustrated with a real example or a quick demonstration:
- Break the blank page. Turn your messy notes into a rough draft built only from your own ideas, so the hardest sentence is already written.
- Ask for options, not answers. Request five versions instead of one, and put your judgment back in the editor's chair.
- Hire AI as your editor. Get honest critique of your draft, with no rewriting, so the words stay yours while the weak spots get found.
- Cut it in half. Trim to a hard word count for signage and blurbs, with a built-in check that nothing vital was lost.
- Write for every reader. Restate policies and announcements in plain language at a target reading level, and flag the jargon.
- Teach it your voice. Build a reusable style note from writing you're proud of, so drafts sound like your library instead of every library.
- Write once, publish everywhere. Turn one strong program writeup into a newsletter blurb, social posts, and a press release.
- Shift the tone, keep the message. Deliver overdue reminders and policy changes with warmth, so the message lands without scolding.
- Check the bones. Reverse outline long pieces like board reports and grant narratives to find structural problems before polishing sentences.
- Hunt the slop. Run a final pass for AI fingerprints, from filler phrases to vague superlatives, so that your library’s voice remains strong.
The recording and presentation slides will be available to all who register.
DATE: Friday, September 11th, 2026, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm US - Eastern Time
COST:
- $99/person - includes live attendance, anytime access to the recording and presentation slides, and a participation certificate. To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@library20.com.
TO REGISTER:
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SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com to arrange):
- Multiple individual log-ins and access from the same organization paid together: $99 each for 3+ registrations, $75 each for 5+ registrations. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
- The ability to show the webinar (live or recorded) to a group located in the same physical location or in the same virtual meeting from one log-in: $399.
- Large-scale institutional access for viewing with individual login capability: $599 (hosted either at Learning Revolution or in Niche Academy). Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
ALL-ACCESS PASSES: This webinar is not a part of the Safe Library All-Access program.
With over two decades of experience in libraries and education, Crystal Trice is passionate about helping people work together more effectively in transformative, but practical ways. As founder of Scissors & Glue, LLC, Crystal partners with libraries and schools to bring positive changes through interactive training and hands-on workshops. She is a Certified Scrum Master and has completed a Masters Degree in Library & Information Science, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and Psychology. She is a frequent national presenter on topics ranging from project management to conflict resolution to artificial intelligence. She currently resides near Portland, Oregon, with her extraordinary husband, fuzzy cows, goofy geese, and noisy chickens. Crystal enjoys fine-tip Sharpies, multi-colored Flair pens, blue painters tape, and as many sticky notes as she can get her hands on.
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