Andrew Cox|Stephen Pinfield|Sophie Rutter
The intelligent library
University of Sheffield|University of Sheffield|University of Leeds
purpose last years seen surge interest artificial intelligence ai purpose paper capture snapshot perceptions potential impact ai academic libraries reflect implications library work designmethodologyapproach data study interviews 33 library directors library commentators experts education publishing findings interviewees identified impacts ai search resource discovery scholarly publishing learning challenges included libraries left outside focus development ethical concerns intelligibility decisions data quality threat jobs perceived number potential roles academic libraries identified data acquisition curation ai tool acquisition infrastructure building aiding user navigation data literacy originalityvalue one first papers examine current expectations around impact ai academic libraries authors propose paradigm intelligent library capture potential impact ai libraries