👩💻 AI for Creativity and Productivity
Artificial intelligence isn’t just for tech experts. It’s fast becoming a daily companion in how we work, learn, and create. Whether you’re streamlining your workflow or exploring new ideas, here’s a selection of new AI titles that will inspire fresh ways for you to learn, boost your productivity, spark creativity, and thrive alongside technology.
Prompt Engineering for Generative AI: Future-Proof Inputs for Reliable AI Outputs
Discover how thoughtful wording can transform AI from a novelty into a dependable collaborator. With clear, practical strategies for crafting smarter prompts, this book shows how to turn unpredictable responses into reliable, insightful results. It’s a concise guide to communicating with machines in ways that bring out their best thinking.
AI First: The Playbook for a Future-Proof Business and Brand
Discover how businesses and brands can thrive in a world where AI becomes the default, not the exception. Featuring insight from visionaries like Sam Altman, Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman, it outlines how to redesign jobs, build new skills, reimagine customer expectations and deliver early wins in an “AI-first” era.
The AI Assist: Strategies for Integrating AI into the Very Human Act of Teaching
Explore how AI can enhance the human act of teaching through tools that support connection and creativity. Using the HAIL framework (Humanize, Augment, Integrate, Leverage) and practical classroom strategies, this book shows how to blend innovation with empathy, opening new possibilities for engagement and insight.
Practical Generative AI with ChatGPT
Unlock the full potential of ChatGPT (and related tools) by learning hands-on strategies for crafting prompts, generating text/images/code, and building custom AI assistants. With clear, practical examples, you’ll learn how to turn AI from a curiosity into a creative and productivity engine—helping you work smarter, faster and with more impact.
The Art of AI Product Development: Delivering Business Value
Learn how to build AI-powered products that create real business value—not just flashy prototypes. This book walks you through scanning for high-impact opportunities, working with modern AI techniques like predictive models and language systems, designing trustworthy user experiences, and putting in place ethics and governance so your AI actually gets used and trusted.
Future-Ready Teaching with AI: Unlocking Student Potential in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Learn how AI can be integrated into your classrooms not just as a novelty, but as a tool to elevate learning—helping students engage more deeply, think more critically, and build essential skills for an AI-rich world. It offers practical prompts, activities and ethical frameworks so you can streamline routine tasks, personalize instruction and focus on relationships and feedback rather than just content delivery.
Making ChatGPT Work for You
A guide into using ChatGPT through more than 100 ready-to-use prompts and step-by-step examples—whether you’re drafting a report, analyzing data, generating images or simply setting up a personal assistant. It breaks down how to ask better, structure tasks clearly and let AI assist rather than overwhelm, turning generative AI from mysterious hype into a practical everyday tool.
The AI Glossary
The mystery is taken out of AI by breaking down 101 essential terms—everything from “machine learning” to “generative AI”—into clear, everyday language and relatable examples. It’s a quick-read reference that helps readers build confidence with the vocabulary shaping our tech-rich world, so you can follow conversations about AI with ease and clarity.
Show AI, Don't Tell it: Build Buy-In with Visual Storytelling
Learn how to make complex AI ideas click through the power of visuals. This book shows how charts, storyboards, and simple design techniques can turn technical talk into stories people understand and remember—helping teams build trust, spark curiosity, and get real buy-in for AI projects.
Generative AI in Action
Explore how generative AI creates text, images, and music, and learn to move from playful experiments to real-world applications. With guidance on prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model tuning, and ethical challenges, it offers practical techniques and design patterns for integrating AI into everyday work and innovation.
Search our library collections for more resources on AI or check out our display cases at the front of the library.
Updates
🙏 Thank You for Your Help! 
Over the last few months, we’ve introduced policies aimed at reducing noise and distractions in the library to make it a better place to study. These policies are starting to make an impact thanks to you! Thank you all for your understanding and cooperation towards making positive changes to our shared library space.
Just in case you’re not aware of our current policies, they can be found at Library Policies and Code of Conduct.
Reminder: You can contact the information desk, anonymously, and in real-time via online Chat to report noise and other distractions. Our information desk staff are happy to assist.
👩🦰 Welcome Christy Nichols! 
We are thrilled to welcome new staff member Christy Nichols back to SAIT. Christy is our new E-Resources and Open Scholarship Technician, and a graduate of SAIT’s Library Information Technology (LIT) Program from back in 2011. Since then, Christy has gained a wealth of experience and knowledge at the Banff Centre and Mount Royal University, and she’s done some serious hiking!
Fun fact: Christy’s not the only SAIT graduate that works here - did you know that 88% percent of our information desk staff are graduates from our LIT Program.
👩🦱 We're Missing a Few Librarians
Each school at SAIT has its own dedicated librarian, and you can book an appointment to Meet Your Librarian for help with research, resources and citation. Currently, we’re missing librarians for:
- School of Business
- Academic Services and Student Services (including Academic Upgrading and English Language Foundations)
Hopefully, we’ll find you some new librarians soon, but in the meantime, if you're from these schools and would like to meet with a librarian, contact library@sait.ca and we’ll connect you with someone who can help.
Discover SAIT's history through the Archives
November 11 is Remembrance Day - a time to remember those that have served and protected our country, and those that have lost their lives in armed conflicts throughout the world.
Many armed forces personnel passed through the doors of SAIT during World War II (1939 - 1945) when SAIT's facilities were taken over by the Royal Canadian Air Force. The SAIT campus (including Heritage Hall) served as the No.2 Wireless Training School of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, hosting airmen from Australia and New Zealand alongside Canadians. SAIT also provided skills for production factory workers, and towards the end of the war, provided vocational training for veterans to help them return to civilian life.
Here's a photo of Class 46B wireless operators of the Royal Australian Air Force by the outbuildings of the #2 Wireless School in the summer of 1942, posed in front of a parade float in the shape of a plane.
To find out what these Australians got up to when they were at SAIT, read the 1987 newspaper article Vets recount wartime hijinks from our archives.
For many more historical photos, yearbooks, newspaper articles, course calendars, and other records relating to SAIT’s interesting history. Take a look through our Archives collections.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.