paulwalk6h ago
Lina

Boost plz!

Looking for critical scholarship on the use of "AI" by library/archive workers. University libraries in particular, but adjacent and tangentially-relevant-at-best stuff is welcome too. Any format is fine: books, papers, blogposts, whatever. If it's good, gimme all you've got!

Looks like we're gonna have a department-wide conversation about people using LLMs, and it's being framed as "we're all using it, but we're not talking about it, so let's make sure we're all on the same page about using it responsibly" ... I'll of course be pushing the "there's basically no way to use it responsibly" position, and I'd like to arm myself and others with some critical analyses of issues related to its use in library/archive spaces.

#llm #LLMs #ai #libraries #archives

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Show threadrowmyboat7h ago

@lina Everything from Library Freedom Project

Article: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/077fd747-a189-450e-8ee8-3132efefb245

A survey of AI tools in library tech: Accelerating into and unlocking streamlined enhanced convenient empowering game-changers

This article presents the current status of AI tools in library resources and systems, such as those licensed by Clarivate, Elsevier, and EBSCO. It also offers thoughts on the utility of the tools, how they work, their problems, and their context within the offerings of the companies that own them. With this information, library workers will be able to make better informed decisions about which, if any, AI tools to subscribe to, activate, or opt out of in their library resources and systems.

Show threadrowmyboat7h ago
@lina current issue of ITAL https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital
Information Technology and Libraries

Information Technology and Libraries is a peer-reviewed journal published by

Show threadPetra van Cronenburg6h ago
@lina tagging ⬆️ #bookstodon #academicChatter
Show threadMay Likes Toronto5h ago
@lina @plutopsyche might know people.
Show threadAlex Rodríguez3h ago
@lina this is a good resource and I bet the librarian who put it together would be a good person to email https://libguides.amherst.edu/genAI/ethics
Research Guides: Generative AI: Ethics and Costs

Research Guides: Generative AI: Ethics and Costs

Show threadMelissa3h ago
@lina reply to a similar request recently was a good libguide on the topic...hold on...
Show threadMelissa3h ago
@lina
https://social.coop/@arod/116281527230331144
Alex Rodríguez (@[email protected])

@[email protected] this is a great resource, I think you will find some sources here: https://libguides.amherst.edu/genAI/ethics

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Show threadCoral 😷2h ago
@lina I liked Andrea Baer's article in ItLwtLP: https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feeling-rules/
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Show threadCoral 😷2h ago
@lina Oh! And! Tamia Jackson and Elizabeth Fridrick from Bowling Green State University did a 🔥🔥🔥 presentation at ER&L, called "Applying an Ethical Framework for Assessing the Proliferation of genAI tools in Electronic Resources" - I imagine if you emailed one of them, they'd be able to provide a draft of their rubric, or at least their slides. (Spoiler: there's no ethical way to implement genAI tools right now.)
Show threadLina2h ago
@coral
thanks!! too bad the conference isn't posting videos of talks. I will reach out though!