The most recent volume in the Charleston Briefings: Trending Topics for Information Professionals series, titled “Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing”, is available as an open-access download at
https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/r781wj47w?locale=en
The relatively short volume, edited by Ruth Pickering and Matthew Ismail, is a series of essays; these are very accessible and focus on the ways that AI may change the work of libraries and publishers (and to a lesser extent, the work of researchers and scholars more broadly), rather than the details of AI technologies themselves.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI