Book Launch
This blog concerns "Artificial Intelligence for Academic Libraries" (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group), which was published in June 2025. See the authors' book page with a detailed Table of Contents, errata, a link to this blog, and a link to Google Books preview of 43 pages, where you can read the Preface, Introduction (Chapter 1), and a bit of Chapter 2 . Clifford Anderson , Director of the Yale University Divinity School Library, and Douglas Fisher, a long-time Vanderbilt University AI researcher, teacher, and one-time NSF program director for AI, sought to create a book that was scholarly, wider in coverage than is popularly typical, and robust in the face of rapid change. We are thankful to have been writing for academic libraries and librarians, who are paragons of engagement, curiosity, rationality, and future orientation; for whom hype is anathema. We believe that others from varied walks and stages of life will find the book informative as well. ...