Law Librarianship in the Age of AI by Ellyssa KroskiFuturists predict that in the next ten years the profession of “lawyer” will splinter into job titles like “legal process analyst” or “legal knowledge engineer.” And some in the field are already taking a proactive approach — in fact, more than two dozen law schools have developed innovation centers to explore artificial intelligence (AI) and the law. In a competitive marketplace, both firms and individuals need to familiarize themselves with the dazzling array of new products and enhanced features capable of improving efficiency. Written by leading practitioners and visionaries like Robert Ambrogi, this groundbreaking survey of current practices and future trends offers an incisive examination of the evolving roles for law librarians. Readers will learn how AI technology is changing law school curricula, lawyer practice, marketing, and other key aspects of the field through coverage of such topics as
the benefits of AI to law librarianship, including areas like legal research, contract review, compliance, and administration, and their associated risks;
four professional ethics rules that apply to the use or (non-use) of AI;
how lawyers and staff work side by side with AI, utilizing intelligence like RAVN ACE or FastCase to attack the drudgery of due diligence and document review;
surprising machine-learning insights from tokenizing, stemming, and lemmatizing the text of Shakespeare’s plays;
the potential for chatbots and new natural language processing products to improve access to justice; and
ways to develop sought-after skills through new technology departments, practice management groups, and legal innovation labs.
Reading this collection will give you a firm grasp of the innovations, tools, benefits, and risks of AI in law librarianship.
ISBN: 9780838946343
Publication Date: 2020
The Rise of AI: Implications and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Libraries by Sandy Hervieux; Amanda Wheatley (Editors)Librarians are uniquely positioned to rise to the challenge that artificial intelligence (AI) presents to the field. Libraries and their like have existed for millennia; they progress with society, altering and adapting their services to meet the information needs of their communities. The Rise of AI collects projects, collaborations, and future uses from academic librarians who have begun to embrace AI in their work. In three parts--User Services, Collections and Discovery, and Toward Future Applications--it explores: machine translation creating incubation spaces robotics combining information literacy initiatives with AI literacy fostering partnerships with other on-campus groups integrating AI technology into collections to enhance discoverability using AI to refine metadata for images, articles, and theses machine learning The Rise of AI introduces implications and applications of artificial intelligence in academic libraries and hopes to provoke conversations and inspire new ways of engaging with the technology. As the discussion surrounding ethics, bias, and privacy in AI continues to grow, librarians will be called to make informed decisions and position themselves as leaders in this discourse.
ISBN: 9780838939116
Publication Date: 2022
Survey of Law Library Use of Artificial Intelligence by Primary Research Group StaffThe 90-page study presents data and commentary from 72 law libraries predominantly from the USA and Canada, about their use of artificial intelligence products in legal research and other applications. In addition, the study highlights how these libraries are educating their patrons in artificial intelligence approaches to legal research and organizational management. Survey participants also rate the impact and expected impact of artificial intelligence on various aspects of the legal profession including legal research, eDiscovery, law services marketing and other areas. Survey takers name the artificial intelligence products that have most affected their operations thus far; specific data is presented on the extent of use by those in the sample of a broad range of artificial intelligence products.Data in the report is broken out for many different organizations, i.e., law firms (about 30 in the sample) university law libraries (16) and other types of law libraries. In addition, data is broken out by age, gender and other variables related to wither the law libraries and the individuals taking the survey.