Gisèle  Tanasse

Gisèle Tanasse is UC Berkeley’s film and media services librarian. She is a Film Studies, Journalism, and Media Studies subject specialist, as well as a 16-year veteran of the Media Resources Center. She has gained a wealth of academic library experience having served in several staff and librarian roles at UC Berkeley. She played a leading role in the creation of Lumière — an instructional media platform that catalogues media clips by language, theme, cinematic techniques, and more.

  • "Don’t sign the first contract that you get!"

  • "Being successful as a librarian now is about finding the colleagues who will partner with you for well-reasoned lightweight solutions and let perfection go."

  • "In terms of AI, before 'hallucinated citations' [were] easy to spot and tell that it was an AI hallucination. Now, AI [...] requires experience to know when AI can help with idea generation. "

  • "Reading the law and knowing the law is an essential skill in the field."

  • "As a librarian, you can shape copyright law in the US."