What is the role of the library in an increasingly complex information environment filled with and redesigned for artificial intelligence? Hope in the Library presents a compelling case for the continued relevance of libraries in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Michael J. Paulus, Jr., shows how libraries, as human-centered and human-scaled institutions, have enduring roles as archives for reflection and understanding, sites of imagination and hope, and catalysts for human agency. This book argues that, by providing an essential counterbalance to impersonal and automated…mehr
What is the role of the library in an increasingly complex information environment filled with and redesigned for artificial intelligence? Hope in the Library presents a compelling case for the continued relevance of libraries in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Michael J. Paulus, Jr., shows how libraries, as human-centered and human-scaled institutions, have enduring roles as archives for reflection and understanding, sites of imagination and hope, and catalysts for human agency. This book argues that, by providing an essential counterbalance to impersonal and automated systems, libraries are essential for not only surviving but thriving in our emerging information environment. Hope in the Library is structured as a series of essays organized by explorations of the library in the past, in imagined futures, and in our digitally-enhanced present. Firsthand narrative and archaeological history are interspersed with literary meditations from writers including Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jorge Luis Borges. The book can be read a few different ways: from beginning to end; following topical pathways suggested in the final section; or in any other order chosen by the reader. Each essay and section, like a book or section of a library, may be read independently. Informed by over two decades of leading and studying libraries, these essays include the author's professional as well as personal reflections and encourage a more radical reframing of how AI may be integrated into libraries and society to help create a better future.
Michael J. Paulus, Jr. is University Librarian and Professor at Creighton University, USA, and was previously Dean of the Library, Assistant Provost for Educational Technology, and Associate Professor of Information Studies at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination: Artificial Agency and Human Hope (2023) and co-editor of AI, Faith, and the Future: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2022).
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List of Illustrations I. Prologues: Revisiting the Meaning and Purpose of Libraries in an Age of AI 0. On Order 1. Portals to Hope 2. Pandemic 3. Becoming a Librarian 4. Why Libraries? II. The Library as an Archive: How Libraries Are Sources of Hope 5. The Emergence of Attention and Imagination 6. Living Libraries 7. The City 8. The Beginning of the Book 9. The Beginning of the Library 10. The End of a Library 11. The Library as a Transformative Technology 12. The Industrial Imagination 13. Archival Fevers 14. On Inexactitude in Libraries III. The Library as a Site of Anticipation: How Libraries Are Signs of Hope 15. The Antilibrary 16. The Apocalyptic Imagination 17. Libraries of Babylon 18. Libraries of New Atlantis 19. Promethean Hopes 20. A Canticle for Libraries 21. Facing the End with Libraries 22. Library 2041 23. Trusting a Future Library 24. The Postdigital Library IV. The Library as a Place of Action: How Libraries Are Structures for Hope 25. The Library at Dawn 26. The Archival Cycle 27. The Future of the Book 28. The New Media Library 29. Library Automation and Intelligence Augmentation 30. From Alexandria to Alexa - and Back 31. The Library and Virtue 32. In and Beyond Buildings 33. On Enduring Institutions 34. Finding Oneself in the Library V. End Matters 35. After the End 36. Acknowledgements 37. Bibliographic Essay 38. Appendix: Topical Pathways and Explorations Index
List of Illustrations I. Prologues: Revisiting the Meaning and Purpose of Libraries in an Age of AI 0. On Order 1. Portals to Hope 2. Pandemic 3. Becoming a Librarian 4. Why Libraries? II. The Library as an Archive: How Libraries Are Sources of Hope 5. The Emergence of Attention and Imagination 6. Living Libraries 7. The City 8. The Beginning of the Book 9. The Beginning of the Library 10. The End of a Library 11. The Library as a Transformative Technology 12. The Industrial Imagination 13. Archival Fevers 14. On Inexactitude in Libraries III. The Library as a Site of Anticipation: How Libraries Are Signs of Hope 15. The Antilibrary 16. The Apocalyptic Imagination 17. Libraries of Babylon 18. Libraries of New Atlantis 19. Promethean Hopes 20. A Canticle for Libraries 21. Facing the End with Libraries 22. Library 2041 23. Trusting a Future Library 24. The Postdigital Library IV. The Library as a Place of Action: How Libraries Are Structures for Hope 25. The Library at Dawn 26. The Archival Cycle 27. The Future of the Book 28. The New Media Library 29. Library Automation and Intelligence Augmentation 30. From Alexandria to Alexa - and Back 31. The Library and Virtue 32. In and Beyond Buildings 33. On Enduring Institutions 34. Finding Oneself in the Library V. End Matters 35. After the End 36. Acknowledgements 37. Bibliographic Essay 38. Appendix: Topical Pathways and Explorations Index
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