{"id":10779,"date":"2026-05-11T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=10779"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:40:20","slug":"generative-ai-and-academic-library-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2026\/generative-ai-and-academic-library-guides","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI and Academic Library Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This study examines a corpus of approximately 1,000 academic library guides on GenAI , analyzing the tools, topics, and concerns librarians most often discuss, as well as sentiment, pedagogy,<br \/>\npermissiveness, and framing. My data is discussed alongside several recent large-scale surveys and systematic reviews on libraries and AI. I argue<br \/>\n that library AI guidance: (1) tends to defer to other actors regarding appropriateness of AI use rather than offer library recommendations about<br \/>\nbetter and worse uses of AI; (2) emphasizes informational content about what AI is over instructional content on how to use, and ethically use, AI; (3) emphasizes foundation models for general use over specialized scholarly tools or uses like translation or coding; (4) emphasizes academic,<br \/>\nlibrary-adjacent concerns like misinformation, citation, copyright, data privacy, plagiarism, and academic integrity over \u201cpolitical\u201d concerns such as capital, labor, sustainability, and security. While there may be reasons for these choices, I propose they indicate potentially fruitful areas of opportunity for librarians to expand our areas of coverage and expertise and stake out a professional claim to this domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study examines a corpus of approximately 1,000 academic library guides on GenAI , analyzing the tools, topics, and concerns librarians most often discuss, as well as sentiment,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1406],"class_list":["post-10779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1402"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}