The Use of AI Tools for Enhancing Digital Library Services With Information Architects as Responsible Partners
Editors
Le Yang, Alicia Salaz
Status
Faculty
Document Type
Book Chapter
Book Chapter Abstract
This chapter explores the significant role librarians can play using information architecture strategies by advocating for the common theme of professional responsibility which aligns with the core values in librarianship such as access, privacy, and ethics of practice. Attaining the artificial intelligence (AI) promise of greater efficiency and processing countered by the danger of increasingly centralized AI in the hands of a few powerful technology corporations has regulators in many fields paying close attention. The openness and interoperability of platforms and systems are a challenge, but the quality of digital library content as contribution toward machine learning models makes investigation and development promising. The authors of this chapter provide an in-depth, yet concise exploration of AI tools for enhancing digital library services and more importantly, highlight why the role of information architects is important for responsible integration of AI into digital libraries by considering the interdisciplinary nature of digital library practice and the shared responsibilities of libraries, content creators, collectors, and users.
Book Title
Digital Libraries Across Continents
Description
Digital Libraries Across Continents illustrates how digital librarianship practitioners and scholars digitize, exhibit, and preserve their cultural heritage, and how these practices may be influenced by the policy, economic, and sociocultural environments in which they are developed.
Including scholarly articles, case studies, examples of best practice, and conceptual essays solicited from different continents, this book provides an overview of the status quo of digital libraries around the globe. The case studies examine how macro-level policy, funding, and social priorities influence the development of digital libraries. The volume offers a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between libraries in different countries and the ways in which they view, foster, develop, and sustain digital librarianship. Chapters within the book examine systems, standards, workflows, content, protocol, social and policy environments, culture, metadata, and more, through a series of case studies provided by practitioners working in these settings. Taking a comparative international approach, the book promotes the development of inclusive, accessible, and sustainable digital libraries that serve a global human knowledge endeavor.
Digital Libraries Across Continents provides a wide-ranging examination of issues in cross-border digital library contexts. It will be essential reading for library practitioners, as well as information scientists and educators.
ISBN
9781032646084
Colleges and Divisions
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Publication Date
2025
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Keywords
digital libraries, generative AI, ethics
Recommended Citation
Parandjuk, Joanne and Ress, Sunghae, "The Use of AI Tools for Enhancing Digital Library Services With Information Architects as Responsible Partners" (2025). Research Books. 2.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/faculty_books/2