Turning a 100-Page Research Archive into a Cited Briefing with NotebookLM

AI Skill Booster

Important note: This training may demonstrate AI tools that are not approved for use with Stanford data. Inclusion in this session does not imply institutional approval. Participants should refrain from entering Stanford data into unapproved tools. An up-to-date list of approved and reviewed tools is available on the GenAI Evaluation Matrix page.

Code	Date	Delivery	Cost
ITSB-1017	Wed Jun 3, 9:00 am to 10:30 am	Live Online : 1 session	$150

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Explore how to upload research archives to NotebookLM and generate precise, cited answers. Practice transforming dense document collections into concise briefings with inline citations.

Program Description

Research archives full of PDFs can be overwhelming to navigate. This session demonstrates how NotebookLM ingests large document collections and makes them queryable, allowing participants to ask questions and receive answers grounded exclusively in the uploaded sources, with each response linked to the specific passage it came from. Participants practice uploading documents, querying them conversationally, and generating structured briefings.

Learning Objectives

Learners will have the opportunity to:
1. Explore how NotebookLM ingests and indexes large collections of documents
2. Practice uploading and organizing research archives for effective querying
3. Work with NotebookLM to generate cited answers from uploaded source material
4. Experiment with conversational querying to extract key findings from dense documents
5. Produce a concise briefing document from a set of uploaded sources

Topic Outline

Topics:
- Uploading and organizing documents in NotebookLM
- Source-grounded search and citation features
- Conversational querying techniques
- Generating briefings and summaries from document archives
- Avoiding hallucination with grounded AI responses

Tool used: Google NotebookLM

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