Digest Archive

I came across an interesting article on how AI is being used in communications and development work within academic libraries.

Michael Ridley’s recent paper, *Artificial Research Intelligence: Autonomously AI-Generated Science and the Implications for Research Libraries*, explores this emerging shift.

Every year, someone in the LIS world declares that librarianship is dying. It never has. What changes is the skill

*The next generation of librarians may not only organise knowledge for humans. They may have to organise it for machines.*

The useful question is not “Which AI tool is best?” It is *where does each tool actually help in the

Three things happened in the AI and libraries space this month that deserve to be read together. On July 16,

Libraries have always taken patron privacy seriously — borrowing records, search history, reference questions, and the small details people share

The latest special focus issue of *Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL)*, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2026), takes a close look

AI tools can produce confident answers whether those answers are right or wrong. That is why vetting matters. For librarians,