10/21/2024
The book Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship: Notes for Teaching, author: Martin Frické:
is linked to below. It is open-sourced and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.
The Third Edition 2024 August
The book is published by SoftOption ® Ltd. (Wanaka, NZ), Email: support@SoftOption.Us , and it has ISBN 978-0-473-72294-4
The third edition has changes and additions. These include:
- a new Chapter 6 on evaluation and the future
- new materials in Chapter 5 on current large language and multimodal models
- scattered revisions, corrections, and updates.
Pdf Version
- AIinLibrariesNotesForTeaching3rdEd.pdf 2024 August
- [ AIandLibrarianshipNotesForTeaching.pdf 2024 August This url and the above one link to the same file.]
WORD Version
If you are going to edit the content for your own purposes, you may be better off with a version in WORD format (which will be slightly easier to edit directly as compared with editing pdfs).
- AIandLibrarianshipNotesForTeaching3rdEd.docx 2024
- [ AIandLibrarianshipNotesForTeaching.docx 2024 August This url and the above one link to the same file.]
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A Japanese Translation of The Third Edition 2024 October
The 3rd edition of Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship has been translated into Japanese by Dr. Akira Nemoto. It is available from:
Thanks to Dr. Nemoto’s generosity, the translated text is both free and carries CC BY 4.0 licensing (which means that any of it can be used for any purpose, including commercial, providing attribution is given).
Additionally, there is a summary:
Contact details for Dr. Nemoto include:
根本 彰
anemoto@keio.jp
https://oda-senin.blogspot.jp/
The Second Edition 2024
The book is published by SoftOption ® Ltd. (Wanaka, NZ), Email: support@SoftOption.Us , and it has ISBN 978-0-473-70434-6
Pdf Versions
There are two pdfs linked to here— the Contents-and-Bibliography (about 70 pages) and the whole text (about 500 pages). They should display directly in a web browser without any need to download.
WORD Version
If you are going to edit the content for your own purposes, you may be better off with a version in WORD format (which will be slightly easier to edit directly as compared with editing pdfs).
Open Source Libraries Hosting this Work
These provide context, host many other texts, and they have reviews and ratings.
- Open Textbook Library
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/artificial-intelligence-and-librarianship - Merlot
https://merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=773417494 - OER Commons (Open Educational Resources)
https://oercommons.org/courses/artificial-intelligence-and-librarianship-notes-for-teaching-2nd-edition
Legal Deposit Copy
WorldCat Entry
Artificial Intelligence Assistants for this Work (i.e. chatbots specifically for this work)
OpenAI now have a GPT Store (1/10/24). Introducing the GPT Store . This hosts GPTs which are 'helpers' configured to specific resources, tasks, or data. To have access to these, a user has to be a subscriber to GPT Plus. The lowest tier subscription for this at present is $20 a month. Apparently, there are more than three million GPTs available.
There is a GPT for the book Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship:
- Assistant for AI and Librarianship 1/11/2024 (Beta version, its properties are still being explored.)
- Sample Requests to the Assistant
There will be other helpers for the book, as the developer technologies become more widely available. These additional assistants will probably be from other manufacturers, and probably use large language models.
There are those who think that these chatbots/assistants are the future of (non-fiction) books. See, for example, Tyler Cowen's example of a generative book GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?
The First Edition 2023
The book is published by SoftOption ® Ltd. (Wanaka, NZ), Email: support@SoftOption.Us , and it has ISBN 978-0-473-68682-6
Pdf Versions
There are two pdfs linked to here— the Contents-and-Bibliography (about 30 pages) and the whole text (about 400 pages). They should display directly in a web browser without any need to download.
WORD Version
If you are going to edit the content for your own purposes, you may be better off with a version in WORD format (which will be slightly easier to edit directly as compared with editing pdfs).