Generative AI has rapidly emerged, and, with many good reasons, so has opposition. Moving quickly through a timeline of technological disrupters within the last few decades, this talk will address the similar reactions and responsibility shifts for librarians over time. This will not be an endorsement of AI but rather an encouragement to embrace change and for librarians to be leaders as new technologies trend today. The themes of this talk emerged from the literature review for a forthcoming paper on the use, experiences, and perceptions of generative AI in library instruction.
Participants will: 1. reflect on the historical waves of disruptive technology in academic libraries 2. evaluate patterns in the librarian response.
