Jacqueline Whyte Appleby
Associate Director
Scholars Portal
Catherine Steeves
Ontario Council of University Libraries AI/ML Program Director & Librarian
Western University
This summer the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) kicks off an ambitious, two-year artificial intelligence (AI) program, with funded projects covering government document metadata generation, ebook remediation for accessibility, chatbot integration for student support, staff AI tool pipeline workflow development, and an overarching province-wide capacity-building project. This briefing introduces the program and its components and outlines a roadmap for the year ahead.