The Library May Be Your AI Governance Team
A university department head signed up for an AI research tool and gave access to forty doctoral students. The tool
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Digest Archive
Accelerating Generative AI Integration in Libraries
The latest special focus issue of *Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL)*, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2026), takes a close look
Vetting AI-generated content: what librarians should actually check
AI tools can produce confident answers whether those answers are right or wrong. That is why vetting matters. For librarians,
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What if a library could do more than simply “use AI”?
What if an AI system could *read scanned books, extract metadata, prepare MARC21 records, organise data, create reports, compile CAS
Libraries, Digitisation and AI: Who Owns the Value of Digital Collections?
A recent discussion draft from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) raises an issue that libraries, archives and cultural institutions
After MLIS, What Should You Learn Next? PGDLAN, PGDADLM, TISS or YouTube?
Every few weeks, a student writes to me after completing MLIS and asks: “What should I do next — PGDLAN
When AI Misses a Retraction, Who Checks the Literature?
In my years of working with biomedical literature, one thing I was always careful about was *retracted articles*. A retracted
Skill set for librarians in the AI era
For more than a century, librarians have helped people navigate an information environment that is messy, incomplete and sometimes difficult
AI4LIB Weekly Posts | 7–13 September 2026
AI, Libraries and the Future of Knowledge Work AI4LIB Weekly Posts | 7–13 September 2026 AI is not simply changing
AI needs Information Scientists
For the past few months, I have been looking at the team pages of major AI companies. It began as