When to Use AI: Lessons From My Fave Library
How do we balance the human and the robot to make the best use of each? Ann Handley explores this questions and when exactly to use AI.
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The Story of This Guy Who Grew Up in a Library Made Me Realize I Did, Too (Kind Of)
Ronald Clark’s father worked as a custodian of a New York Public Library branch in an era when library caretakers and their families lived on site. A few of these apartments are still around, although now there are no people living in them. Ronald’s dad kept the NYPL Washington Heights branch clean and tended the coal furnace. The 24/7 access to books in a pre-Kindle age changed Ronald’s life: He grew up to become not only the first person in his family to graduate from high school but also a college professor. As part of its celebration of how libraries change lives, StoryCorps a few weeks ago produced Ronald’s story as a three-minute film. There’s so much I love about this sweet little film: (1) The message of the life-altering power of libraries; (2) the animation that brings Ronald’s gravelly narration to life; and (3) the choice to use video
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