An AI toolkit for libraries

Now that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being widely used across academic publishing, how can we make informed assessments of these utilities? We need evaluations of AI tools within the context of how they are actually used – by checking with users. Information professionals are ideally placed to carry out these evaluations. The author suggests an outline of where AI is currently being used successfully, and outlines a methodology for assessment of new tools. The goal is not to endorse or to discredit AI, but to enable us to make intelligent and informed appraisals, without the need to learn coding.