Arqus Community of Practice - Libraries of the future hybrid seminar

• Title: Arqus Communities of Practice ‘Libraries of the future
• Date: 6th-7th November 2025
• Time: begins 10:00 CET
• Seminar type: Communities of Practice, Artificial Intelligence, Research
• Format: hybrid
• Open to: academics & researchers, admin staff
• Program (in Central European Time (CET)): https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_files/_project_sites/_european-university/Arqus_Dokumente_Relaunch_2023/ARQUS_Libraries_of_the_Future_Programme.pdf
• The program can also be found on this Arqus-website.
• Registration: Register by writing to ub.event(at)uni-graz.at and using “Libraries of the future” in the subject line. Tell us your name, institution, contact details, and whether you will participate online or come to Graz.

Note: This event is only open to staff members of the Arqus Alliance universities (Universities of Granada, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon 1, Maynooth, Minho, Padua, Vilnius and Wroclaw) and associated partner universities (University of Durham and the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy).

The Arqus Community of Practice ‘Libraries of the future’ invites staff members of the Arqus universities to their hybrid meeting ‘Impact of AI in Arqus Member Libraries’, organised by the University of Graz on 6th and 7th November 2025. The meeting on 6th November will be held both in person and online. On 7th November, the meeting will be held in person only at the University of Graz.

This meeting will bring together professionals from Arqus member libraries, research offices and academic departments to discuss the current challenges associated with expanding knowledge about current AI-related development across the Arqus Alliance university libraries.

With contributions from speakers from the University of Graz and other Arqus member institutions, the meeting will address key topics in the field, including:

• internal opportunities and risks of AI use,
• library user-centred AI usage, and
• competence building for library staff (prompting, analyses, etc.).

There will be a dinner on the evening of 6th November for the in-person participants.

While the event is primarily aimed at library staff, any Arqus staff member interested in Artificial Intelligence is welcome to attend.