Emmanuel Te (he/him/his) is an Associate Librarian at Convent & Stuart Hall in San Francisco, CA. He supports high school students with their research needs, which includes the research process for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Extended Essay. Emmanuel is also a current doctoral student (EdD) at the University of San Francisco, exploring ways to connect insights from education and psychology to support information literacy instruction.
Natalie Marquez is a Reference Library Assistant at UCI Libraries and has worked at Langson Library for over 7 years. A UCI alumna who graduated in 2009 with B.A. degrees in History and Classical Civilization, she is currently taking classes towards a Master of Library and Information Services degree through San Jose State University. An active member of many ACRL committees, she has relished her time learning from her peers. Natalie’s research interests include information literacy, misinformation, citation management skills and instruction.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs, such as ChatGPT, exploded onto the scene with the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Since then, countless articles have been published promoting the benefit of AI and the dangers it poses including threats to our jobs as information professionals and educators. However, few studies document if and how current information practitioners and institutions use AI in their work (Dessy et al, 2022; Wheatley and Hervieux, 2019; Gujral et al, 2019) . To address this knowledge gap, a LILi task force on AI conducted a survey of librarians and other information literacy professionals in Spring 2024 to learn more about their adoption of AI. The survey and its results will detail how AI is used in their work, specific AI tools used, and their comfort level and concerns around AI use. This presentation will review the task force’s findings and compare the data to broader AI surveys. The presenters will offer a few suggestions based on their understanding of their findings and time for participants to contribute their observations and insights with the same survey and a poll.
References
Gujral, Garima, et al. Perceptions and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Academic Libraries: An Overview of Global Trends. 2020.
Harisanty, Dessy, et al. “Leaders, Practitioners and Scientists’ Awareness of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: A Pilot Study.” Library Hi Tech, vol. ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print, Jan. 2022. Emerald Insight, https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-10-2021-0356.
Wheatley, Amanda, and Sandy Hervieux. “Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries: An Environmental Scan.” Information Services & Use, vol. 39, no. 4, Jan. 2019, pp. 347–56. content.iospress.com, https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-190065.
