LIS 526 Guest Lecture Links (6 February 2025)

February 06, 2025

This is a list of links to people and other things that came up in a guest lecture that I gave to LIS 526: Instructional Practices in Library and Information Services virtually at the University of Alberta's Digital Scholarship Centre on 6 February 2025.

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Dustin Edwards' Bluesky post that I read out in class:
- https://bsky.app/profile/dustinedwards.bsky.social/post/3lhchqos4ys2f
Sam Popowich-related articles and books:
- https://www.spopowich.ca/blog/chatgpt-commodities-and-tools
- https://journal.caut.ca/index.php/caut-journal/article/view/37
- https://litwinbooks.com/books/academic-librarianship-in-canada/ (the relevant chapter is called "The Proletarianization of Academic Librarianship" or something like that - very good!)
- https://litwinbooks.com/books/solving-names-2/
University of Calgary Library's new AI centre, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Literacy and Integrity:
- https://library.ucalgary.ca/services/caieli
Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression (still very timely and important and applicable):
- https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
Leo S. Lo and mainstream LIS approaches to AI literacy:
- https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ulls_fsp/210/
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102720
Interesting new, short article in College & Research Libraries News by Matthew Pierce critical of mainstream LIS' endorsement of GenAI:
- https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26659
Sarah Eaton and "post-plagiarism":
- https://drsaraheaton.com/2023/02/25/6-tenets-of-postplagiarism-writing-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
I forgot to mention this piece by Charles Logan, but it is one of the better approaches to "AI literacy" that I have read recently, instead proposing this idea of "mapping platform ecologies":
- https://repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/11112/1/ICLS2024_362-369.pdf
Logan was also on a recent episode of the Data Fix podcast. (Data Fix is great!):
- https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/lessons-with-charles-logan
I referenced Logan's work in my CAPAL24 presentation on Wikipedia, AI, and library instruction:
- https://doi.org/10.60770/36Y6-3562
Emily Bender, the prominent AI critic and linguist at the University of Washington, has written some pieces kind of in the IL/info seeking space that are quite critical of AI from that lens. Perhaps of interest!
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816
- https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/information-literacy-and-chatbots-as-search/
Bender and Alex Hanna's new book forthcoming in May:
- https://thecon.ai/