AI and academic libraries: what’s all the fuss about?

Abstract

AI and academic libraries: what's all the fuss about?Over the last couple of years, whenever I have engaged in general conversations with academic library colleagues, invariably, the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) comes around.Quite often colleagues will say things like 'it's the next big thing', or 'there will be a lot of changes ahead because of AI'.When asked what these changes might look like and what the impact will be on the library, many colleagues tend not to have a fully considered response, which led me to question exactly what it is that we are waiting for with regards to AI and academic libraries and what are these big changes ahead?Clearly, the even more recent emergence of Generative AI is having an impact on higher education in general, which in turn is likely to impact on academic libraries, but I'm not personally witnessing anyone in either the teaching and learning, research, or professional services areas having to reprioritise to deal with the 'next big thing' and the wholesale changes that are 'just around the corner'.So, rightly or wrongly, I found myself asking 'what's all the fuss about?' and thought I would share my musings by way of this editorial.

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