Resources

This Resources page lists a variety of information sources regarding AI, organized by the following categories: Publications; Centers, Projects, Initiatives; Conferences and Workshops; Software/Tools. It is not meant to be exhaustive and will be updated as information becomes available. Please also read our Blog for updates and other AI information.

Publications

Arlitsch, K. (2018) My user is a machine: making information accessible to disabled users by structuring for machine intermediaries. Journal of Library Administration, 58:7, 728-738, DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2018.1514834

Arlitsch, K. & Newell, B. (2017). Thriving in the age of accelerations: A brief look at the societal effects of artificial intelligence and the opportunities for libraries. Journal of Library Administration, 57(7), 789-798. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01930826.2017.1362912

Asemi, A., Ko, A. and Nowkarizi, M. (2021), "Intelligent libraries: a review on expert systems, artificial intelligence, and robot", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 39 No. 2, pp. 412-434. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-02-2020-0038

Badia, A. (2019). The Information manifold: Why computers can't solve algorithmic bias and fake news. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bagchi, M. (2020). Conceptualising a Library Chatbot using Open Source Conversational Artificial Intelligence. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 40(06), 329-333. https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.40.06.15611

Brown, L. M. (2022). Gendered Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: Opportunities to Deconstruct Sexism and Gender Binarism. Journal of Library Administration, 62(1), 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2021.2006979

Burton, M., Lyon, L., Erdmann, C. & Tijerina, B. (2018). Shifting to data savvy: The future of data science in libraries. Project Report. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/33891/

Cox, A. M., Pinfield, S., & Rutter, S. (2019). The intelligent library: Thought leaders' views on the likely impact of artificial intelligence on academic libraries. Library Hi Tech, 37(3), 418-435.

Cox, A. (2022). How artificial intelligence might change academic library work: Applying the competencies literature and the theory of the professions. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24635

Ex Libris A ProQuest Co. (2019). How AI Can Enhance the Value of Research Libraries. Library Journal. April 15. https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=how-ai-can-enhance-the-value-of-research-libraries

Ex Libris. (2018). Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Advantages, Challenges and Tradition: An Ex Libris Whitepaper. Whitepaper.https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2909474/Ex%20Libris%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20White%20Paper.pdf

Farag, H. A., Mahfouz, S. N., & Alhajri, S. (2021). Artificial Intelligence Investing in Academic Libraries: Reality and Challenges. Library Philosophy and Practice, 1-34. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/5309/

Fjelland, R. (2020). Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized. Humanities and Social Science Communication, 7(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0494-4

Floridi, L. & Cowls, J. (2019). A unified framework of five principles for AI in society. Harvard Data Science Review, 1(1). https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/l0jsh9d1/release/7

Garcia-Febo, L. (2019). Exploring AI: How libraries are starting to apply artificial intelligence in their work. American Libraries, March 1. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/03/01/exploring-ai/

Gasparini, A., & Kautonen, H. (2022). Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Research Libraries – Extensive Literature Review. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.10934

Griffey, J. (Ed.) (2019). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Libraries, Library Technology Reports 55(1). https://journals.ala.org/index.php/ltr/issue/view/709

Harisanty, D., Anna, N.E.V., Putri, T.E., Firdaus, A.A. and Noor Azizi, N.A. (2022), "Leaders, practitioners and scientists' awareness of artificial intelligence in libraries: a pilot study", Library Hi Tech, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-10-2021-0356

Hartson, R., & Pardha, P. (2019). The UX Book: Agile UX design for a quality user experience. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Hervieux, S., & Wheatley, A. (2021). Perceptions of artificial intelligence: A survey of academic librarians in Canada and the United States. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(1), 102270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102270

Johnson, B. (2018). Libraries in the age of artificial intelligence. Computers in Libraries, 38(1). https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan18/Johnson--Libraries-in-the-Age-of-Artificial-Intelligence.shtml

Kennedy, M. L. (2019). What do artificial intelligence (AI) and ethics of AI mean in the context of research libraries? Research Library Issues, no. 299 (September): 3-13. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.299.1

Lee, P.-C. (2021), "Technological innovation in libraries", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 39 No. 2, pp. 574-601. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-07-2020-0163

Liu, J., Liu, J., Chen, Y. (2022). Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Information Retrieval of University Library. In: Hung, J.C., Chang, JW., Pei, Y., Wu, WC. (eds) Innovative Computing . Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 791. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4258-6_28

Ma, Y., Ping, K., Wu, C., Chen, L., Shi, H. and Chong, D. (2020), "Artificial Intelligence powered Internet of Things and smart public service", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 165-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-12-2017-0274

Miller, J. (2020). The new library user: Machine learning. https://er.educause.edu/-/media/files/articles/2020/3/er20_1112.pdf

Mischo, W.H. et al. (2020). Discovery in 2020: Trends and User Behaviors, CNI 2020. https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CNI_Discovery_Mischo.pdf

NMC Horizon Project. (2018). NMC Horizon Report Preview: 2018 Higher Education Edition. https://ppgtic.paginas.ufsc.br/files/2018/09/ok_Horizon-2018.pdf

Noble, S.U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York: New York University Press.

Padilla, T. (2019). Responsible operations: Data science, machine learning, and AI in libraries. OCLC Research. Dublin, OH. https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2019/oclcresearch-responsible-operations-data-science-machine-learning-ai.pdf

Reidsma, M. (2019). Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery. Sacramento, CA: LibraryJuice Press.

Slota, S. C., Fleischmann, K. R., Greenberg, S., Verma, N., Cummings, B., Li, L., & Shenefiel, C. (2022). Locating the work of artificial intelligence ethics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24638

Tella, A. and Kadri, K.K. (2021), "Big data and academic libraries: is it big for something or big for nothing?", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 38 No. 2, pp. 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-07-2020-0069

West, S. M., Whittaker, M. & Crawford, K. (2019). Discriminating Systems: Gender, race and power in AI. New York: AI Now Institute. https://ainowinstitute.org/discriminatingsystems.pdf

Wheatley, A. & Hervieux, S. (2020). Artificial intelligence in academic libraries: An environmental scan. Information Services & Use, 39(4), 347-356. https://content.iospress.com/download/information-services-and-use/isu190065?id=information-services-and-use%2Fisu190065

White, B. (2020). Research libraries: How you can support text and data mining. LIBER. https://zenodo.org/record/3801114#. YUbXGLhKiUl

Wójcik, M. (2020). Augmented intelligence technology. The ethical and practical problems of its implementation in libraries. Library Hi Tech.

Wood, B.A., & Evans, D.J. (2018). Librarians' perceptions of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on the profession. Computers in Libraries, 38(1). https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan18/Wood-Evans--Librarians-Perceptions-of-Artificial-Intelligence.shtml

Centers, Projects, Initiatives

NYU Tandon Center. Center for Responsible AI: A comprehensive laboratory for accelerating responsible AI practices. https://dataresponsibly.github.io/we-are-ai/
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group. https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/areas/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning
University of Illinois. AI Infodemic: Interrogating Algorithms of Information Seeking Group. https://publish.illinois.edu/infodemic/
University of Oklahoma Libraries Bizzy Chatbot Project. https://libraries.ou.edu/content/project-highlight-bizzy-chat-bot
University of Oklahoma Libraries Voice Search Future Project. https://libraries.ou.edu/content/future-project-voice-search
University of Oklahoma Libraries creates registry for Artificial Intelligence research. Projects in Artificial Intelligence Registry (PAIR) is an online database to support collaboration and grant funding across higher education institutions exploring AI research.https://libraries.ou.edu/content/ou-libraries-creates-registry-artificial-intelligence-research
University of Rhode Island Artificial Intelligence Lab housed in a University Library. https://today.uri.edu/news/uri-opens-first-artificial-intelligence-lab-housed-in-a-university-library/
University of Texas at Austin Good Systems https://bridgingbarriers.utexas.edu/good-systems/ - see library projects https://bridgingbarriers.utexas.edu/good-systems/#projects

Conferences and Workshops

AIDR 2019: Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse. An NSF-supported conference @ Carnegie Mellon University, in-cooperation with ACM. May 13-15, 2019. Pittsburgh, PA. https://events.library.cmu.edu/aidr2019/
AI, Ethics and Society Conference. International Conference at the University of Alberta. May 8-10, 2019. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. https://www.ualberta.ca/kule-institute/news-events/ai-ethics-and-society-conference/
Fantastic Futures. Library-Inspired Artificial Intelligence(AI) Initiative. Hosted by Stanford Libraries. https://www.nb.no/artikler/fantastic-futures/
RLUK Conference: the library of the future - people, machines, and more. Hanging Together- The OCLC Research Blog. https://hangingtogether.org/?p=7206#:~:text=If%20you%20have%20%E2%80%9Cdone%20the,will%20be%20software%2C%20not%20people.

Software/Tools

21 Open Source Libraries/Tools for Artificial Intelligence. https://addiai.com/artificial-intelligence-open-source-libraries/

Welch, S. (2020). Popular Python AI Libraries. https://blog.udacity.com/2020/05/popular-python-ai-libraries.html

Statistics Fundamentals

Trochim, W. M. K. (2020). Research Methods Knowledge Base. conjointly.com/kb/research-data-analysis/