AI Ethics and Integrity

This research seeks to forge appreciation of ethical principles of AI development and use, particularly within higher education and information-intensive contexts. 

Student Perceptions of AI-Assisted Writing and Academic Integrity: Ethical Concerns, Academic Misconduct, and Use of Generative AI in Higher Education

AI and Academic Integrity: Exploring Student Perceptions and Implications for Higher Education

Standards, frameworks, and legislation for artificial intelligence (AI) transparency

Artificial Intelligence and Information Behavior

This research examines and proposes frameworks for understanding how human information seeking and use behavior are impacted by the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools as a source of information. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) and information seeking: A comparative exploration of AI chatbots, search engines, and library resources as information sources among university students

Measuring university students’ satisfaction with traditional search engines and generative AI tools as information sources 

Bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Study of AI and Information Seeking Research

Diffusion of innovations: Still a relevant theory for studying library technology in the age of AI?

Conceptualizing AI Literacy 

This research questions assumptions attached to competency-based AI literacy and seeks to demonstrate AI literacy as a complex construct that requires a critical understanding of the nature of data, information, culture, and ethics.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence as AI Literacy Scaffolding

AI Literacy: An Exercise in Power-Knowledge

Discourses of data literacy: A critical literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Digital Scholarship and Artificial Intelligence

This research explores how the emergence of generative AI is impacting the nature of scholarship and scholarly publishing, including ethical and practical considerations for both authors and publishers. 

AI Authorship and the Role of the Librarian

Can ChatGPT be an author? A study of artificial intelligence authorship policies in top academic journals

ChatGPT and a new academic reality: Artificial Intelligence-written research papers and the ethics of the large language models in scholarly publishing

Minority Serving Institutions Archives (ARCHIV-ALL) Project

Supported by a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PR-295929-24), this research seeks to understand the landscape of preservation and access among the libraries and archives of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in the United States, and propose solutions to expand availability of unique artifacts of cultural and historical significance with the support of emerging technologies. 

ARCHIV-ALL MSI: Serving Students Through Archives and Special Collections at Minority Serving Institutions

Status of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Archives - Bussey et al. (2024)

Information Science scholars studying cultural record preservation at Minority-Serving Institutions - COI News

Personal Data Privacy Literacy

This research is dedicated to the development and evaluation of a "Personal Data Privacy Literacy" scale, intended to better measure the current privacy risks associated with the sharing and use of personal data in interactions with web- and AI-based tools in the modern online context.

Personal data privacy literacy and library privacy awareness and concern among academic library employees

PDPL metric: validating a scale to measure personal data privacy literacy among university students

Understanding the relationship between personal data privacy literacy and data privacy information sharing by university students

Post-Quantum Governance in Higher Education

This exploratory research seeks to develop a picture of the current state of preparation for a post-quantum transition within higher education, including the impact of Q-Day integration of AI with advanced quantum computers. 

This project is ongoing and in an early stage. Check back in the future for a list of publications!