Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Research Libraries – Extensive Literature Review
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Artificial intelligence (AI) now forms a part of various activities in the academic world. AI will also affect how research libraries perform and carry out their services and how the various kinds of data they hold in their repositories will be used in the future. For the moment, the landscape is complex and unclear, and library personnel and leaders are uncertain about where they should lay the path ahead. This extensive literature review provides an overview of how research libraries understand, react to, and work with AI. This paper examines the roles conceived for libraries and librarians, their users, and AI. Finally, design thinking is presented as an approach to solving emerging issues with AI and opening up opportunities for this technology at a more strategic level.
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There has been little research in the library field on how students use generative AI for academic work as it relates to libraries.
“There has been little research in the library field on how students use generative AI for academic work as it relates to libraries.”
From A Survey on Student Use of Generative AI Chatbots for Academic Research (2024) · cites this paper as Gasparini and Kautonen (2022)
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Artificial intelligence in academic libraries: An environmental scan
Wheatley, A., & Hervieux, S. (2019) · Information Services and Use · doi:10.3233/isu-190065 · Cited by 140 · cited 3× · see citing works
“…have a crucial role to play in identifying and presenting this new digital evolution to “help increase user adoption and staff accep-tance” (Wheatley & Hervieux, 2019), and librarians should be involved in teaching patrons about the implications of data-driven decision systems (Head et…”
BackgroundMaturing research data services and the transformation of academic libraries
Cox, A. M., Kennan, M. A., Lyon, L., Pinfield, S., & Sbaffi, L. (2019) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/jd-12-2018-0211 · Cited by 139 · see citing works
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Garzone, M., & Mercer, R. E. (2000) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science · doi:10.1007/3-540-45486-1_28 · Cited by 101 · see citing works
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A Survey on Student Use of Generative AI Chatbots for Academic Research
Deschenes, A., & McMahon, M. (2024) · Evidence Based Library and Information Practice · doi:10.18438/eblip30512 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
- Authors
- Gasparini, A., & Kautonen, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Finnish Literature Society (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Gasparini, Andrea
- Kautonen, Heli
- Venue
- LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries
- Published
- 2022-01-31
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1435-5205 (ISSN-L)
- 2213-056X
- OpenAlex
- W4210446100
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 17.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web and Library Services
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, research libraries, academic libraries, library services, library users, design thinking, library strategy, digital repositories, future of libraries
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