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Library Trends completes two-part series on AI and libraries

Cover of Library Trends 73 (4) is shades of blue-gray with concept mapping in the background

The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 73 (4), the culmination of a two-part series on artificial intelligence (AI) in libraries. In "Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics, Part II," authors apply an academic lens to AI usage and how this rapidly evolving technology is impacting everything from ethics to instructional strategies. Librarians will also find insight into how students and faculty perceive AI and its place in the classroom.

Melissa A. Wong, adjunct lecturer and 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:

  • "Students' Perceptions and Uses of ChatGPT: Implications for Teaching AI Literacy" by Stefanie Havelka, Claire McGuinness, and Páraic Kerrigan
  • "An Exploration of Faculty and Student Perceptions of Generative AI" by Kaitlin Springmier
  • "Fostering AI Literacy in Undergraduates: A ChatGPT Workshop Case Study" by Susan Gardner Archambault, Nicole Lucero Murph, and Shalini Ramachandran
  • "The Bias Is Inside Us: Supporting AI Literacy and Fighting Algorithmic Bias" by Beth Carpenter
  • "Critical Information Literacy as a Compass: Using Generative AI in Academic Research and Writing" by Gabriel Cunha Leal de Araujo and Marco André Feldman Schneider
  • "Disciplinary Responses to Generative AI: Implications for Academic Librarians" by Lauren Hays
  • "The Impact of Generative AI on the LIS Ecosystem: Threats and Opportunities" by Amanda S. Hovious and Andrew J. M. Smith
  • "Facing the Questions Together: Faculty and Student Perspectives on Integrating Generative AI in LIS Education" by Rebecca J. Morris and Annie Malady
  • "AI and the Material Conditions of Instruction" by Laura M. Bernhardt and Becca Neel
  • "Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library" by Kailyn "Kay" Slater
  • "Beyond Information Literacy: Exploring AI's Impact on Labor in Academic Libraries" by Nicole Lucero Murph
  • "Chatting with the Decolonized Digital Library" by Andrew Cox and Andrea Jimenez
  • "Beyond 'If We Use It Wisely': Character Ethics, the Virtue of Wisdom, and GenAI in Libraries" by Rea N. Simons

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. 

Please send ideas, inquiries, or issue proposals via email to Wong at librarytrends@illinois.edu.

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