Andrew Cox is Senior Lecturer in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication at the University of Sheffield. He has been working in the LIS field for two decades and been writing about AI and libraries for nearly half that time. He is convenor of the IFLA Special Interest Group on AI and is a past chair of the ASIS&T SIG on AI. He has previously published AI for Knowledge (co-authored with Mike Thelwall).

Who better than Andrew Cox, author of so many influential publications about AI for information professionals across the previous decade, to write the definitive book in this domain? He builds on that corpus here to deliver a critical guide, as the subtitle promises, taking readers well beyond the hype and enabling them to make up their own minds about how best to approach and integrate AI. Cox achieves this through a highly informed, authoritative and well-balanced perspective, rich with resonant examples, on current and future implications across multiple dimensions embracing information services, operations, skills and ethics.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Narrative Fiction and the Approach of This BookChapter 2: What is Artificial Intelligence?Chapter 3: AI and InformationChapter 4: The Ethics of AIChapter 5: AI and Libraries: An OverviewChapter 6: AI CompetenciesChapter 7: Everyday Uses of AI Chatbots in Library WorkChapter 8: The Library Chatbot or Virtual AssistantChapter 9: AI and Library Roles in Research and Scholarly CommunicationsChapter 10: Information Futures and AIConclusion

Andrew Cox is Senior Lecturer in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication at the University of Sheffield. He has been working in the LIS field for two decades and been writing about AI and libraries for nearly half that time. He is convenor of the IFLA Special Interest Group on AI and is a past chair of the ASIS&T SIG on AI. He has previously published AI for Knowledge (co-authored with Mike Thelwall).

Who better than Andrew Cox, author of so many influential publications about AI for information professionals across the previous decade, to write the definitive book in this domain? He builds on that corpus here to deliver a critical guide, as the subtitle promises, taking readers well beyond the hype and enabling them to make up their own minds about how best to approach and integrate AI. Cox achieves this through a highly informed, authoritative and well-balanced perspective, rich with resonant examples, on current and future implications across multiple dimensions embracing information services, operations, skills and ethics.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Narrative Fiction and the Approach of This BookChapter 2: What is Artificial Intelligence?Chapter 3: AI and InformationChapter 4: The Ethics of AIChapter 5: AI and Libraries: An OverviewChapter 6: AI CompetenciesChapter 7: Everyday Uses of AI Chatbots in Library WorkChapter 8: The Library Chatbot or Virtual AssistantChapter 9: AI and Library Roles in Research and Scholarly CommunicationsChapter 10: Information Futures and AIConclusion

Andrew Cox is Senior Lecturer in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication at the University of Sheffield. He has been working in the LIS field for two decades and been writing about AI and libraries for nearly half that time. He is convenor of the IFLA Special Interest Group on AI and is a past chair of the ASIS&T SIG on AI. He has previously published AI for Knowledge (co-authored with Mike Thelwall).

Who better than Andrew Cox, author of so many influential publications about AI for information professionals across the previous decade, to write the definitive book in this domain? He builds on that corpus here to deliver a critical guide, as the subtitle promises, taking readers well beyond the hype and enabling them to make up their own minds about how best to approach and integrate AI. Cox achieves this through a highly informed, authoritative and well-balanced perspective, rich with resonant examples, on current and future implications across multiple dimensions embracing information services, operations, skills and ethics.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Narrative Fiction and the Approach of This BookChapter 2: What is Artificial Intelligence?Chapter 3: AI and InformationChapter 4: The Ethics of AIChapter 5: AI and Libraries: An OverviewChapter 6: AI CompetenciesChapter 7: Everyday Uses of AI Chatbots in Library WorkChapter 8: The Library Chatbot or Virtual AssistantChapter 9: AI and Library Roles in Research and Scholarly CommunicationsChapter 10: Information Futures and AIConclusion