Audio-Visual and Multimedia Collections Specialists

Instruct users in the selection, use, and design of audio-visual materials and assist them in the preparation of instructional materials and the rehearsal of presentations.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can recommend materials, teach selection and usage, generate and design AV instructional content, and run rehearsal simulations with feedback, enabling full automation of user instruction and preparation assistance.

Plan and prepare audio-visual teaching aids and methods for use in school systems.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can plan and produce AV teaching aids, align methods to curricular standards, and generate the required materials, making preparation for school systems largely automatable.

Determine formats, approaches, content, levels, and mediums necessary to meet production objectives effectively and within budgetary constraints.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can evaluate objectives, recommend formats and content levels, and optimize approaches and budgets to produce effective production plans, enabling this strategic decision-making to be fully automated in many contexts.

Produce rough and finished graphics and graphic designs.

AI: Fully automatable - AI-driven design tools can produce both rough drafts and finished graphics/graphic designs autonomously to professional standards given appropriate prompts and assets.

Develop manuals, texts, workbooks, or related materials for use in conjunction with production materials.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate high-quality manuals, workbooks, and instructional texts end-to-end, including formatting and iteration to meet specifications with minimal human input.

Develop preproduction ideas and incorporate them into outlines, scripts, story boards, and graphics.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate preproduction concepts and convert them into outlines, scripts, storyboards, and accompanying graphics rapidly and at production-ready quality with appropriate prompts.

Narrate presentations and productions.

AI: Fully automatable - High-quality text-to-speech, voice cloning, and automated timing tools in 2025 allow AI to fully narrate presentations and productions without human input.

Set up, adjust, and operate audio-visual equipment, such as cameras, film and slide projectors, and recording equipment, for meetings, events, classes, seminars, and video conferences.

AI: Partial - AI can remotely control, auto-configure, and optimize many AV systems for events, but it cannot reliably perform all initial on-site physical setups across varied environments.

Maintain hardware and software, including computers, scanners, color copiers, and color laser printers.

AI: Partial - AI can perform software maintenance, diagnostics, and coordinate servicing, but it cannot fully replace hands-on hardware repair and parts replacement.

Install audio-visual equipment.

AI: Partial - Installing AV equipment typically involves physical mounting and cable routing that AI cannot autonomously perform in most real-world installations, though it can provide guidance.

Direct and coordinate activities of assistants and other personnel during production.

AI: Partial - AI can assist with scheduling, task assignment, and monitoring during production, but cannot fully replace human judgment and nuanced personnel leadership in complex live contexts.

Confer with teachers to select course materials and to determine which training aids are best suited to particular grade levels.

AI: Partial - AI can recommend course materials and match training aids to grade-level standards, but meaningful consultation and negotiation with teachers requires human communication and context understanding.

Acquire, catalog, and maintain collections of audio-visual material such as films, video- and audio-tapes, photographs, and software programs.

AI: Partial - AI can automate metadata extraction, digital cataloging, search and preservation workflows, but acquisition decisions and physical preservation/curatorial judgment still require human involvement.

Offer presentations and workshops on the role of multimedia in effective presentations.

AI: Partial - AI can create and deliver virtual presentations and workshop content and handle Q&A to an extent, but in-person facilitation, live audience management, and nuanced pedagogy are still best handled by humans.

Attend conventions and conferences, read trade journals, and communicate with industry insiders to keep abreast of industry developments.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor journals, summarize trends, and participate in virtual conferences, but building industry relationships and in-person networking remain human-centric.

Locate and secure settings, properties, effects, and other production necessities.

AI: Partial - AI can research and shortlist locations, vendors, and effects and assist with logistics, but legally securing sites, negotiating contracts, and on-site coordination require human action.

Perform simple maintenance tasks, such as cleaning monitors and lenses and changing batteries and light bulbs.

AI: Not automatable - This is a purely physical maintenance task (cleaning, changing batteries/bulbs) that AI software cannot perform without specialized robotics and human oversight.

Construct and position properties, sets, lighting equipment, and other equipment.

AI: Not automatable - Constructing and physically positioning sets, props, and lighting are manual, on-site tasks that AI software cannot perform without specialized robotics and human crew.