Artificial Intelligence for Libraries

by Brady D. Lund

176 pages, Paperback

Published January 8, 2026

Reviews

[Megan]

While an interesting - and scalable - look at AI in libraries, it glossed over major issues in the use of AI, including 1) the active theft of intellectual property used to train LLM AIs and whether is is ethically appropriate to use something that simply regurgitates said stolen materials (Bartz v. Anthropic anyone?), 2), the impacts of AI data centers, both environmentally (use of precious natural resources) and economically (utility prices going up for consumers), and 3) how LLM AI is prone to hallucinations.

[Jonathan]

Great overview and intro to AI and its possible uses in libraries.