Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

From the ACRL "Instruction Section" authors Justine Martin and Matt Armstrong (04/12/2024):

These librarian-authors write about AI in academic libraries, giving an overview, reasons why, listing current resources, and mentioning possible hurdles to learning more about and using effectively these new technologies. 

The list of technologies and locations of other bits of helpful information make this article very useful for academic librarians who want to start learning more about AI.

Created by librarian and digital artist Charles W. Bailey Jr., the "Artificial Intelligence and Libraries Bibliography" is a website containing links to over 125 curated, English-language articles and books about libraries using AI.  It covers works from 2018 onward.  

Recent posts by "Digital Librarian" Nick Tanzi, about AI:

In a July 2023 post, "A Resource List on AI in the Library," Librarian Nick Tanzi (in his "Digital Librarian" column) lists some online resources to help other librarians come up-to-speed with artificial intelligence and how it can be used within academic and other libraries.

In a April 2023 post, "A.I. in the Library - Decision Time!", Tanzi discusses how the use of artificial intelligence by library staff has to be thought-about now, with policies needing to be created now.

A Tech Librarian Explains How to Build "AI Literacy" Skills

She says AI Literacy is now a must-have skill -- here is how she says to develop that skill for yourself as an academic librarian.

This librarian also has created a "ChatGPT FAQ" for librarians to use, to better understand this technology.

Using AI for Metadata Tagging to Improve Resource Discovery

There is a book the EFSC Libraries now owns (as an eBook) about this topic of librarians using their metadata to improve the discoverability of their resources for their users.

The book is titled "The Rise of AI: Implications and applications of artificial intelligence in academic libraries," and it was published in 2022 by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).  

Here is a link to an article in Choice Reviews about the chapter in the book relating to metadata and AI.

And here is information about the book itself:

How Academic Libraries Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Their Services

Author Kelly Banks (senior director, Libraries/Institutions Sales Team, Pressreader) writes about the use of A.I. within universities (Cambridge Univ.) as well as in academic libraries, speaking to the various uses to which libraries can put A.I. to entice library use and to smooth out the user journey.

Check out her article, to see what you think about these possible library uses of A.I.