Hope in the Library

How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvMichael J. Paulus, Jr.

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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 andarchaeological history are interspersed with literary meditations from writers including MaryShelley, 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-19
Mått142 x 218 x 16 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765136195

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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).

List of IllustrationsI. Prologues: Revisiting the Meaning and Purpose of Libraries in an Age of AI0. On Order1. Portals to Hope2. Pandemic3. Becoming a Librarian4. Why Libraries?II. The Library as an Archive: How Libraries Are Sources of Hope5. The Emergence of Attention and Imagination6. Living Libraries7. The City8. The Beginning of the Book9. The Beginning of the Library10. The End of a Library11. The Library as a Transformative Technology12. The Industrial Imagination13. Archival Fevers14. On Inexactitude in LibrariesIII. The Library as a Site of Anticipation: How Libraries Are Signs of Hope15. The Antilibrary16. The Apocalyptic Imagination17. Libraries of Babylon18. Libraries of New Atlantis19. Promethean Hopes20. A Canticle for Libraries21. Facing the End with Libraries22. Library 204123. Trusting a Future Library24. The Postdigital LibraryIV. The Library as a Place of Action: How Libraries Are Structures for Hope25. The Library at Dawn26. The Archival Cycle27. The Future of the Book28. The New Media Library29. Library Automation and Intelligence Augmentation30. From Alexandria to Alexa – and Back31. The Library and Virtue32. In and Beyond Buildings33. On Enduring Institutions34. Finding Oneself in the LibraryV. End Matters35. After the End36. Acknowledgements37. Bibliographic Essay38. Appendix: Topical Pathways and ExplorationsIndex

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