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Library tech learning team expands hotspots, pop‑up labs and readies AI course
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Supervisor of digital inclusion Karen Moore briefed the board on hotspot lending, pop‑up lab outreach, Northstar Digital Literacy usage and an AI course planned for early next year.
Karen Moore, supervisor of digital inclusion and leader of the library’s Tech Learning Team, told trustees the library is expanding digital access and skills programming while preparing targeted new courses on artificial intelligence.
Moore said the team manages a hotspot lending program with roughly 174 devices currently in circulation across 16 branches; hotspots have logged more than 1,600 checkouts year‑to‑date, and staff target branches in areas with high digital‑divide indicators. “Though we have very little hotspots, when the need is there, it is met,” Moore said, recounting a patron who could get groceries…
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