Going Green: Implementing Sustainable Strategies in Libraries Around the World

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Not Quite ‘Ask a Librarian’: AI on the Nature, Value, and Future of LIS

Dinneen

Bubinger

2021

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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AI language models trained on Web data generate prose that reflects human knowledge and public sentiments, but can also contain novel insights and predictions. We asked the world's best language model, GPT-3, fifteen difficult questions about the nature, value, and future of library and information science (LIS), topics that receive perennial attention from LIS scholars. We present highlights from its 45 different responses, which range from platitudes and caricatures to interesting perspectives and worrisome visions of the future, thus providing an LIS-tailored demonstration of the current performance of AI language models. We also reflect on the viability of using AI to forecast or generate research ideas in this way today. Finally, we have shared the full response log online for readers to consider and evaluate for themselves.

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Not Quite ‘Ask a Librarian’: AI on the Nature, Value, and Future of LIS

Dinneen

Bubinger

2021

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Information Literacy

Lawal

2024

Reference Module in Social Sciences

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Towards an agenda for information education and research for sustainable development

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Chowdhury

2024

Journal of Information Science

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Education for sustainable development (ESD) has been identified by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a core requirement for achieving success in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research around data, information and people for achieving success in different SDGs shows how important ESD is. Research also shows that the library and information sector can contribute in many ways to achieve the UN SDGs. Therefore, it is crucial that a strategic approach is taken to embed the concepts of SDGs and their targets and indicators, and the corresponding data and information required to achieve those, within the information science curricula, so that the SDGs form the foundation of information science education, research and professional activities. This article aims to develop a research agenda for education and research in information sciences for promoting and achieving success in different SDGs. First, taking the approach of a metareview, this article shows the trends, as well as challenges, of research and development activities around information for sustainable development. This article demonstrates how the different activities of the LIS (Library and Information Science) sector can be mapped onto some specific targets and indicators of different SDGs, and based on this, it develops an agenda for education and research in information for sustainable development. The research agenda will lead to the development of new information sciences curricula to accommodate the SDGs for training and research in specific LIS activities. This article discusses how the research agenda will also lead to the development of trained professionals in information science for promoting the concepts, and achieving the targets, of the SDGs for a sustainable future.

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Going Green: Implementing Sustainable Strategies in Libraries Around the World

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Cited by 8 publications

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Not Quite ‘Ask a Librarian’: AI on the Nature, Value, and Future of LIS

Not Quite ‘Ask a Librarian’: AI on the Nature, Value, and Future of LIS

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Towards an agenda for information education and research for sustainable development

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