New horizons in Artificial Intelligence in libraries
Balnaves, Edmund ; Bultrini, Leda ; Cox, Andrew ; Uzwyshyn, Raymond
Walter de Gruyter - Berlin
2025
384 p.
library science ; library automation ; ethics ; artificial intelligence
IFLA Publications
185
Information and library science
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111336435
English
Bibliogr.
"There is increasing use of AI technologies in many aspects of library operations and types of libraries. This ranges across public, national, research, academic and special libraries and includes public and reference services, automated classification, special and research collections, archives and customer service through chatbots and discovery systems.
Vendors are also adding elements of AI in new and existing library products including search and discovery and research platforms and recommender systems.
The role and impact of AI present opportunities and challenges and open future possibilities. IT plays a significant role in the development and use of AI technologies, but ethical considerations and wider organizational thinking must also play an equally significant role. AI's uses can have considerable impact and possible unintended consequences on library operations and services and wider societal implications. All of this is considered in this both pragmatic and wider philosophical text.
This publication provides an opportunity to explore developing new library AI paradigms, including present use case practical implementation and opportunities on the horizon as well as current large ethics questions and needs for transparency, scenario planning, considerations and implications of bias as library AI systems are developed and implemented presently and for our collective future."
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Table of contents:
About IFLA IX
Edmund Balnaves, Leda Bultrini, Andrew Cox and Raymond Uzwyshyn
Preface 1
Edmund Balnaves
Artificial Intelligence and Libraries: An Introduction 3
Part I: Current Directions in Artificial Intelligence for Libraries
Leda Bultrini
2 Current Directions for Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: An Introductory
Overview 17
Juja Chakarova
3 Artificial Intelligence: Already in Libraries? 24
Mojca Rupar Korošec
4 Developing Artificial Intelligence in an Ethical Way in
European Libraries 35
Bohyun Kim
5 Investing in Artificial Intelligence: Considerations for Libraries
and Archives 49
Part II: The Implications for Use of Artificial Intelligence in
Libraries and Education
Andrew Cox
6 The Implications for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Education:
An Introductory Overview 61
Fiona Bradley
7 The Policy Context of Artificial Intelligence 71
Josette Riep and Annu Prabhakar
8 Toward Bias-free Artificial Intelligence for Student Success in Higher
Education 82
Raymond Uzwyshyn
9 Building Library Artificial Intelligence Capacity: Research Data Repositories
and Scholarly Ecosystems 121
Neli Tshabalala
10 Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Library Services: Reflections on a
Practical Project 141
Andrew Cox
11 Ethics Case Studies of Artificial Intelligence for Library and Information
Professionals 156
Part III: Projects in Machine learning and Natural Language
Processing
Raymond Uzwyshyn
12 Projects in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Libraries:
An Introductory Overview 171
Martin Malmsten, Viktoria Lundborg, Elena Fano, Chris Haffenden, Fredrik Klingwall,
Robin Kurtz, Niklas Lindström, Faton Rekathati and Love Börjeson
13 Without Heading? Automatic Creation of a Linked Subject System 179
Anna Kasprzik
14 Transferring Applied Machine Learning Research into Subject Indexing
Practice 199
Sümeyye Akça
15 Topic Modelling in the Ottoman Kadi Registers 213
Caroline Saccucci and Abigail Potter
16 Assessing Machine Learning for Cataloging at the Library
of Congress 227
Thomas Zaragoza, Yann Nicolas and Aline Le Provost
17 From Text to Data Inside Bibliographic Records: Entity Recognition and
Linking 239
Part IV: Artificial Intelligence in Library Services
Edmund Balnaves
18 Artificial Intelligence in Library Services: An Introductory Overview 259
Patrick Cher
19 Empowering Library Services: Building a ChatGPT Chatbot 261
Iman Khamis
20 Fundamentals of Artifical Intelligence for Libraries 288
Helen Sau Ching Cheung, Alex Hok Lam Chan, Kenny Ka Lam Kwan and Yoko Hirose
21 Developing Digital Literacy Using Mini-AI Games 299
Itai Veltzman and Rael Elstein
22 How Ex Libris Uses Artificial Intelligence and Smart Services to Transform
Libraries 323
Edmund Balnaves
23 Artificial Intelligence in Libraries on $5 per Day: Image Matching with
Koha 336
Glossary 351
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