Hi everyone, I'm Pam McKinney and I'm helping Sheila live-blog from the ECIL conference this week. The first presentation I'm attending is Information Literacy and Artificial Intelligence: A Library and Information Science Perspective on Effects, Research Questions, Challenges and Opportunities by Joachim Griesbaum, Stefan Dreisiebner, Antje Michel, Inka Tappenbeck, Anke Wittich from various universities in Germany. They spoke about a workshop they developed on information literacy and artificial intelligence that aimed to connect information scientists and librarians to explore the IL challenges associated with the use of AI. They had some highly intensive discussions over a full day based on position papers written by experts. They created a synthesis of the position papers and this has now been published in german (Dreisiebner et al 2024 Implikationen von generativen KI-Systemen für die Informationskompetenz-Vermittlung English version). They did some qualitative thematic analysis of the position papers and presented a "short glimpse" of the results in this presentation. They spoke about 3 clusters: the impact of AI on existing concepts of information literacy, the impact of AI on information science research in the field of IL and the challenges and opportunities in the promotion of IL through AI. They were concerned with the actions of students and tutors, and the role of the library in this space.
Key areas of research will be the transformation of information markets, the impact of AI on information behaviour, information ethics and the integration of AI into education. They pose the question: Are existing IL frameworks suitable to cover AI-specific competencies, and how we can develop AI-specific education?
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