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AI for Library Liaisons (Library Resources)

This guide is designed to provide instruction and liaison librarians with the resources needed to help students and faculty navigate the use of generative AI

Welcome!

This guide was created to provide librarians with resources for discussing or implementing artificial intelligence in academic research and course assignments. As faculty throughout the university start to design or adapt assignments to include generative AI tools like Chat GPT or Gemini, it will be helpful to have a collection of resources available to draw upon. 

This guide is designed to be a living document, and all librarians are welcome to join in authoring the different components of this guide. 

Rationale

Our information literacy program is designed to teach students across the university the skills needed to become effective, efficient, and ethical researchers. Teaching students to apply these skills to adaptive research environments, which includes the use of current and future AI tools, is essential.

A critical outcome of our information literacy program is to teach students to evaluate the information they use in their writing carefully. Since AI tools cannot currently describe their information-gathering processes, students will need to learn to apply this skill to information created by AI as well. 

Best Practices

In the spirit of practicing what we preach, folks are encouraged to use AI tools to generate content for this guide! As with work created by other human beings, AI use must be acknowledged and cited.

Generative AI is a powerful tool that can be leveraged for our work in ILI. You are encouraged to explore these tools for the inclusion of materials in this guide, but it's essential to do so in responsible and ethical ways. 

For students, these tools can be beneficial in the preliminary phases of research by helping to refine topic ideas, explore related concepts, and gather background information. With careful evaluation and vetting, AI can help create the foundation for students to build their thesis, explore their ideas, and draw conclusions. 

These tools can also contain fake citations, errors, omissions, biased information, or offensive content. We must consider these limitations when teaching students and implementing AI in our work. Carefully evaluate any materials created by AI included in the guide, as each contributor will be responsible for correcting any inaccuracies.