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Jennifer Hicks

Teaching Library Users About AI Images: A Case Study

AI-generated images and videos are now frequently found across social media, advertising, and academic spaces, yet many users interact with these visuals without recognizing them as AI or understanding how they are created. As academic libraries increasingly position themselves as leaders in information and digital literacy, AI image literacy presents both a challenge and an opportunity. To help our patrons better understand, I developed and facilitated an AI image literacy workshop focused on helping participants critically evaluate AI-generated images and videos while also understanding how they are made.

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Agnes Pearcy

From Information Literacy to AI Literacy: Preparing Librarians for Emerging Responsibilities

As artificial intelligence reshapes how we search, write, and learn, librarians are increasingly expected to help communities navigate an unfamiliar digital landscape. This article advocates for incorporating AI literacy into Library and Information Science education and introduces a new course, “AI and Libraries,” designed to prepare future-ready information professionals. It emphasizes that AI literacy is critical for promoting equitable understanding and access in an age defined by intelligent systems.

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Evelyn Cox

AI in a Tribal Context: Diverse Perspectives Matter in a Changing Landscape

With Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) seemingly increasing integration into various aspects of society, nations worldwide—including Tribal Nations—are assessing its impact on the changing landscape. AI is a revolutionary technology that poses potential opportunities and risks for federally recognized Indian Tribes (Tribal Nations or Tribes) and their citizens. This article provides an overview of the literature related to AI in a tribal context.

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Jenna Hillhouse

Confidence Without Comprehension: Why AI Literacy Needs a Reset

When AI tools collapse complex search processes into seamless responses, they can obscure uncertainty, mask gaps in understanding, and smooth over meaningful distinctions of meaning, relevance, and confidence. Users may feel informed without ever confronting the limits of their knowledge or the assumptions guiding how information is interpreted. The challenge for libraries is not just teaching people how to use AI tools, but how to think with them without surrendering judgement.

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Ian Y. Song

Can AI Prompting and Academic Libraries Push the Door of Open Access Wider?

The article argues that skilled AI prompting and academic libraries can work together to widen access to scholarly knowledge. As open access grows, AI can explain and synthesize openly available research for broader audiences. But paywalls still limit what AI can analyze, creating visibility gaps between open and closed scholarship. Libraries help address this by improving institutional repositories, supporting OA publishing through transformative agreements, teaching AI literacy, and developing ethical guidelines. Combined, these efforts make research more accessible, understandable, and useful worldwide.

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Chirag Shah

Agentic Algorithmic Amplification and The Choices We Face

Whether we like it or not, know it or not, we have been living in the agentic age of algorithms long before the recent rush to building agentic systems. None of these systems were explicitly programmed to promote conspiracy theories. But they were programmed to maximize engagement, and they discovered—through the same machine learning techniques that help them recognize faces or translate languages—that false, emotionally charged content was engagement gold.

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Ponego Letswalo

Proactive Privacy: Using AI to Automate PII Discovery and Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs)

The regulatory landscape of GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy laws has made fulfilling Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) a critical yet operationally complex challenge. Manual processes for locating an individual’s data across fragmented systems are slow, error-prone, and struggle to meet mandated deadlines. This article explores how AI-driven privacy tools are transforming compliance from a reactive burden into a proactive strategy.

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Ponego Letswalo

The Human Stack: Why Soft Skills Are the Ultimate Competitive Advantage In Tech

In an era defined by rapid technological advancement, the most durable competitive advantage may be fundamentally human. This article introduces the concept of the “Human Stack” the layered suite of soft skills like communication, empathy, and adaptability that employees bring to an organization. While technical skills are essential for entry, it is these uniquely human capabilities that drive true differentiation and success. As automation encroaches on routine tasks, soft skills become critical differentiators that machines cannot replicate.

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