The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 73 (3). With the rapid adoption of AI, coupled with increasing ethical concerns relating to AI usage, bias, and authorship, "Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics, Part I" is the first of two special issues that examine how librarians are grappling with the effects of AI on the field.
Melissa A. Wong, editor in chief of Library Trends, also served as the guest editor for this issue, which is freely available under an open access publishing model.
The table of contents includes:
- "Transcending Binaries of Agency through Librarians’ Discursive Representations of AI" by Sarah Appedu and Jasmina Tacheva
- "Unpacking Predominant Narratives about Generative AI and Education: A Starting Point for Teaching Critical AI Literacy and Imagining Better Futures" by Andrea Baer
- "Generative AI and Open Access Publishing: A New Economic Paradigm" by Leo S. Lo
- "AI and Open Science: Implications and Library Practice Recommendations" by Nicole Helregel
- "Case Study of AI Application in Scholarly Communication—ScienceON" by Suhyeon Yoo, Choongnyoung Seon, and Taeseok Lee
- "Using Generative AI for Qualitative Coding" by David Gustavsen, Holly M. Surbaugh, and Mark Emmons
- "AI and Library and Information Science Publishing: A Survey of Journal Editors" by Allison Hosier and Laureen P. Cantwell-Jurkovic
- "AI on the Shoulders of Giants: Using Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process to Improve AI Support for Information-Seeking" by Benhur Ravuri and Marcia A. Mardis
- "Toward Generative AI–Driven Metadata Modeling: A Human–Large Language Model Collaborative Approach" by Mayukh Bagchi
- "Generative AI and the Reinforcement of Information Privilege: Implications for Information Literacy Instruction" by Norah Mazel
- "Consensus: Using AI to Analyze Scientific Literature" by Allison Faix
- "Claude AI and Literature Reviews: An Experiment in Utility and Ethical Use" by Max Sparkman and Alan Witt
- "Use of Generative AI in Aiding Daily Professional Tasks: A Survey of Librarians’ Experiences" by Lili Luo
Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print.
Back issues (1952 through two years prior to the current issue) are available online through IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Most recently, IDEALS opened public access to Library Trends 70 (4), "Joy of Information."
Please send ideas, inquiries, or issue proposals via email to Wong at librarytrends@illinois.edu.