The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to the library and scholarly publishing landscape.
Ashlea Green presented a research poster titled, “AI-Assisted and AI-Generated Works in Institutional Repositories: Early Trends in Acceptance and Disclosure.”The poster shared early findings from a national survey exploring how institutional repositories are handling AI-mediated content. It highlighted emerging practices around whether IRs accept AI-assisted or AI-generated works and whether AI involvement is disclosed in repository metadata. Green's research offers an early look at how repositories are adapting policies and workflows as AI becomes more common in scholarly authorship, contributing to ongoing discussions about authorship transparency, metadata ethics, and the future of repository stewardship.
Griffin Anderson and Stephanie Bennett presented :”Analyzing Marketing strategies for AI Products by Leading Library Vendors.”
Recently, a wide range of AI products have been directly marketed to libraries and their collection management teams. The Presentation shared research on the marketing strategies employed by leading library vendors to promote their new AI products. Specific marketing strategies and verbiage found in a series of case examples will be explored, including AI product marketing by major aggregate vendors and single-publisher vendors, marketing for such AI products as natural language search tools, content synthesis and summary, and research aids. Attention will be paid to the ways that specific experiences and AI enhancements are being offered to libraries and how these offers compare amongst the range of vendor products and services.
The Presentation also shared implications of the effects that AI marketing has on library collection management. Diverse stakeholders will be considered, including those of libraries, vendors, and end users. This research aims to provide library professionals with knowledge of current vendor marketing strategies for the most quickly developing new category of library tools so that collection management teams can be best equipped to make informed decisions while fostering innovation in evolving library and information spaces.
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