This AI tool helps you find a good book to read, as well as its corresponding record on WorldCat.org.

INSTRUCTIONS: 

The Book Finder Assistant is designed to help users locate specific book records on worldcat.org. The Assistant guides users by recommending authors or groups based on the input genre or style, gradually leading to a specific book or series recommendation.

1. Ask Book Finder for a recommendation based on data you give it.

2. Respond to questions about other data points.

3. Allow Book Finder to know increasingly detailed information about your preferences until you would like a recommendation.

4. Tell Book Finder to give you a WorldCat link.

The Book Summarizer, provided by Library 2.0 and Hepler Consulting, summarizes any book desired by any user in the context of information they provide. You can also ask for summaries of books you may like but have not read yet to obtain some new books for your reading list!

INSTRUCTIONS:

The Book Summarizer is meant to summarize works based on the title, author, or worldcat.org URL. The Summarizer examines the book's themes and ideas and communicates them to the reader.

1. Ask Book Summarizer to summarize a particular book in the context of a theme or a character or an idea that is relevant to that book.

2. Ask the Summarizer to give you more or less detail, if preferred.

3. Ask the Summarizer, if desired, to compare the current book to another book.

4. Ask the Summarizer for other books that cover the same themes or topics or issues.

The Library Programming Assistant, provided by Library 2.0 and Hepler Consulting, assists librarians by helping them plan programs for patrons.

INSTRUCTIONS:

The Library Programming Assistant is trained to assess the needs, wants, and capabilities and knowledge base of a library's patron population. It is then trained to develop programming to fit these datapoints.

1. Ask the Assistant to help you develop appropriate programming for any population (youth, children, adults, elderly, etc.) or group (ethnicity, religious or political group, mental state, or hobbies).

2. Respond to any other questions the Assistant asks you. If it does not ask any questions, tell it explicitly to ask more questions, particularly in regards to the ALA Code of Ethics.

3. Review the specifics of the programming plans, including budgets, locations, program dates, time per session, etc.

4. Ask the Assistant any qualifying questions.

5. Ask the Assistant to create a summary of all the decisions you have made for your records.

This Assistant assists library catalogers in selecting authority records. It advises librarians in creating queries and selecting the most relevant Name and Subject Heading Authority Records.

INSTRUCTIONS:

This Assistant CANNOT navigate the Library of Congress Authority Records Database. It can, however, help YOU navigate the Authorities step-by-step.

1. Tell the Authority Record Finder which record you would like to find.

2. Respond to any clarifying questions.

3. Open authorities.loc.gov and follow the directions given by the Finder.

4. If you are confused by the process, ask the Finder for clarification.

This assistant will take the persona of any book you want. It will respond to you as though it IS the book.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Talk-to-A-Book is meant to take on the persona of any book in the public domain and any book or document you are able to upload. It is explicitly trained not to break copyright regulations.

1. Upload a document, or direct the tool to take on the persona of an existing book. If the assistant has trouble, you may direct the tool to analyze the appropriate html record on gutenberg.org. 

2. Examine the themes, characters, main ideas, and context of the book or document.

Create the most effective database or search engine queries using keywords, truncation, and Boolean operators!

INSTRUCTIONS:

Search Query Optimizer (SQO) is designed to help you optimize any search you want. It invigorates your searching and querying experience by providing you with the optimum Boolean-and-keyword query content.

1. Tell SQO what subject you would like to search, with any degree of generality or specificity.

2. The SQO will give you a series of broad and specific keyword-and-Boolean query terms. It will also prompt you to consider various aspects of your search.

3. Refine your search query to decide exactly what you want to search.

4. Select a particular keyword-and-Boolean query term.

REMEMBER: Boolean terms ARE represented by DIFFERENT ITERATIONS depending on the engine or database setup. The Boolean term "NOT" in EBSCO is represented by a "-" in Google. Be sure that you know which form of Boolean vocabulary your target site uses.

This tool creates reading passages for instructors assisting speakers of English as a second language.

INSTRUCTIONS

The ESL Reading Passage Creator is designed to develop appropriate, non-condescending, high-interest low-ability reading passages. While this is primarily meant to provide passages for ESL readers, it can be used for other reading students who are in reading programs in the library.

1. Submit a generalized, non-specific description of a reader and their reading interests to the Passage Creator.

2. Respond to questions about more details of the reader unless they are inappropriate or unethical. The Passage Creator has been trained not to ask invasive questions, but if it does, please contact the creator through the LinkedIn icon.

3. Review the generated reading passage and critique it for quality, appropriateness, and readability concerns. Give direct and specific feedback to the Passage Creator.

4. Finally, if relevant (and it probably should be), remember to include any reading or learning objectives that the reader should fulfill.