The AI Toolkit for Librarians
The AI Toolkit for Librarians
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Description
How do you integrate AI into the library in an accessible and equitable way? This book shows you how!
The AI Toolkit for Librarians offers a clear and encouraging way to make sense of today's fast-moving world of artificial intelligence. Written for academic, public, and K–12 settings, it helps readers understand how AI fits into everyday library work while staying grounded in the values of access, equity, and learning. The book explores AI's biggest opportunities and challenges, breaks down essential concepts in everyday language, and shows how AI can strengthen reading, writing, research, instruction, and programming.
Each chapter includes practical strategies, Quick Tips, discussion questions, and interviews with 25 respected leaders representing a variety of library settings and roles. Throughout the book, real-life examples and personal experiences help make these ideas practical and relatable. The AI storytelling chapter includes a ready-to-use AI Playground Event, a 90-minute workshop that invites learners of any age or skill level to explore AI through a fun, hands-on approach.
The book concludes with the Bridge Framework for AI Readiness, a simple model that helps libraries move from experimenting with AI to adopting it in thoughtful, ethical, and sustainable ways.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
01 – AI Superheroes Needed
02 –Blessings
03 – Burdens
04 – Important Concepts
05 - Literacy Reborn
06 – Reading
07 – Writing
08 – Research
09 – Ethics
10 – Inclusion
11 – AI Storytelling
12 – Education
13 - The Bridge Framework for AI Readiness
Bonus Interviews
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | 17 Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 328 |
| ISBN | 9798216195771 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited |
| Illustrations | 20 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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