The most recent volume in the Charleston Briefings: Trending Topics for Information Professionals series, titled "Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing", is available anas an open-access download at

Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing

What is the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of scholarly communication? What impact does AI have on the practices and strategies of publishers, libraries, information technology companies, and researchers? What exactly is AI and what are those in the realm of scholarly communication actually thinking about it and doing with it? This Charleston Briefing seeks to provide some answers to these very important questions, offering both general essays on AI and more specific ...

The relatively short volume, edited by Ruth Pickering and Matthew Ismail, is a series of essays; these are very accessible and focus on the ways that AI may change the work of libraries and publishers (and to a lesser extent, the work of researchers and scholars more broadly), rather than the details of AI technologies themselves.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI