Teaching and Outreach Librarian
George Mason University Libraries
Trevor Watkins is the Teaching and Outreach Librarian at George Mason University (GMU). He works with faculty, students, and researchers on projects, grants, and scholarship and teaches information literacy courses and conducts library carpentry workshops for the Digital Scholarship Center at GMU. He is the Technical Lead and Chair of the Web Committee of Project STAND and is a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN), a collaboration between OCLC, the California Digital Library, Shift Collective, the University of Virginia, and the Chain Bridge Group. His research interests include AI literacy, Human-AI collaboration, STEM Librarianship, information literacy integration models, open knowledge diffusion tools, and teaching and learning theories in non-traditional spaces. He is a professional member of both IEEE, and ACM (SIGAI, SIGCSE). He is also the founder of Grey Alien Technologies, where he consults with public libraries, academic libraries, and BIPOC organizations about their technology needs. Mr. Watkins holds a MS in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management and a MS in Library Information Science from Kent State University, and a MS in Computing and Information Systems from Youngstown State University. Mr. Watkins holds a MS in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management and a MS in Library Information Science from Kent State University, and a MS in Computing and Information Systems from Youngstown State University. Mr. Watkins has co-authored published papers and presentations at conferences and is a 2021 IMLS fellow for the IDEA Institute on Artificial Intelligence. Some of his current projects are Black Squirrel GNU/Linux operating system, Cosmology of Artificial Intelligence, and MOCA (Mason-Libraries Orientation Conversational Agent).
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Saturday, June 25, 2022
4:00pm – 5:00pm