11 September 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET
(2pm-3.30pm BST)
Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill
Each year, one of the De Gruyter Brill quarterly webinar series explores Artificial Intelligence and its effect on academia, academics and university librarians. The picture is changing rapidly: in December 2023, AI, yet to be seriously trialled by most universities, AI was represented as part magician, part monster; by December 2024, most universities were setting out rules about how AI may (and may not) be used by researchers and students, and librarians were experimenting with some modest practical AI applications. The body of information on AI has continued to build – and is being fed back into AI itself! The time is now ripe to explore what is really happening when AI is used, what the real advantages and drawbacks are, and whether the ethical issues have been – or can be resolved.
Andrew Cox, Library Information Professor at the University of Sheffield and Iman Magdy Khamis, Library Director at Northwestern University in Qatar, have each conducted in-depth research into the impact of AI, especially taking the librarian’s point of view. They share some of the results of their work and speculate what an AI-infused future might look like.
Speakers are:
Andrew Cox, Senior lecturer in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication, University of Sheffield
Iman Magdy Khamis, Library Director at Northwestern University in Qatar
The webinar is sponsored by De Gruyter Brill and will be moderated by Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf. Registration is free of charge.
For more details and to book your place on the seminar, click here.
Who should attend
Academic librarians; public librarians; publishers; members of librarian support groups; members of consortia and trade associations; academics and students interested in sustainability; environmentalists.
Andrew Cox is a Senior lecturer in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication, University of Sheffield, UK. His current research is about the impact of AI on library work. His research has dealt with topics such as library roles in research data management and wellbeing. He is convenor of IFLA’s Special Interest Group on AI and past chair of ASIS&T’s SIGAI.
Iman Magdy Khamis is the Library Director at Northwestern University in Qatar, with over 19 years of experience in both academic and public library settings. She has been actively engaged in researching the digital transformation and the integration of AI in library services.
Iman holds master’s degrees in data science, artificial intelligence, and library science from Northwestern University and University College London. She has had the privilege of being an international speaker at various events, as well as serving as an editor and researcher committed to bridging the gap between traditional librarianship and emerging technologies.
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