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Libraries panel demos Google’s NotebookLM, warns of access and accuracy limits
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Eunice Reesberg demonstrated Google’s NotebookLM to a Friday Tech Focus session, showing summarization, audio overviews and study guides and noting limits for state employees, mobile use, permissions and possible inaccuracies.
Eunice Reesberg, consultant for the Northeast District and a continuing-education presenter, demonstrated Google’s NotebookLM at a virtual Friday Tech Focus session hosted by Sam Bowers, consultant for continuing education, describing it as an AI-powered research and note-taking tool that summarizes uploaded documents and creates audio overviews, timelines and quizzes.
Reesberg said, "Google dubs this as your personalized AI research assistant" and that NotebookLM is built on Gemini 2 and can "generate summaries, explanations, and answers based on content that has been uploaded by those users." She also noted the product's small-print warning: "NotebookLM can make mistakes, so double check it."
The demonstration showed how users add sources by URL, Google Drive or direct paste; how NotebookLM lists added sources and generates a center chat summary; and how the studio pane can produce an audio overview, study guide, FAQ or timeline…
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