Assessing Google’s NotebookLM, GAMMA, and Veo 3 with a Role Playing Game
Jared Chapman, 2025 Showcase

Assessing Google's NotebookLM, GAMMA, and Veo 3 with a Role Playing Game

Assessing Google's NotebookLM, GAMMA, and Veo 3 with a Role Playing Game: For my iSchool Student Showcase submission, I uploaded 240 pages from the initial playthrough of Library World, a GPT-based, library-centric instructional role-playing game I created for my INFO 210 Fall 2025 class project, into Google’s NotebookLM, GAMMA, and Veo 3 to compare how each tool interpreted the same content. NotebookLM immediately generated a detailed summary and offered options to create a report, AI podcast, video, and mind map. Veo 3, accessed through Gemini, produced short 8-second clips, while GAMMA generated a 10-slide presentation, website, letter, and social square with AI-illustrated visuals. Overall, NotebookLM excelled at analyzing and condensing dense text, Veo showed promise for quick, engaging media, and GAMMA proved its strength in visual storytelling. Together, these tools demonstrate how librarians can repurpose a single source into multiple accessible formats for diverse audiences.

Jared K. Chapman, PhD

Jared K. Chapman, PhD, is Vice President of Research & Development for an evidence-based nonprofit specializing in family strengthening. He earned his doctorate in Social Psychology from Claremont Graduate University in 2022 and is currently completing his Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) at San José State University, where he has found great interest in knowledge management, ethical AI integration, and the role of libraries as community-centered innovation hubs. His goal is to bridge research, technology, and librarianship to create systems that expand equitable access to information, improve organizational learning, and strengthen public trust in information institutions. He lives in the foothills east of Los Angeles with his wife, two of their three sons, and their dog, Austin. His creative writing includes speculative and dystopian fiction, with recent work appearing in a published horror anthology.