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Blount County Schools board forms library policy committee after demo of AI screening tool
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Following demonstrations of an AI-assisted screening tool to triage district library inventories against the Age Appropriate Materials Act, the Blount County School Board voted to create an ad hoc library policy committee to review collection-review procedures and coordinate any districtwide rollout.
Blount County School Board members on Tuesday approved creation of an ad hoc library policy committee after administrators demonstrated an AI-assisted screening tool designed to flag library titles for human review under the Age Appropriate Materials Act.
Administrators and school staff showed the board an automated review platform built by William Blunt High School principal Derek Crabtree that ingests district policy documents, classroom inventory procedures, the districts collection-development plan and the state law to produce five outputs for each title: a brief summary, an age and maturity analysis, an assessment of educational mission, a compliance check and a final recommendation. Crabtree said the system produces a preliminary result in minutes and is intended to triage large inventories for librarians and principals to review.
"We ran a report earlier today. We have over 210,000 books in our Destiny system…
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