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Algorithmic Literacy and the Role for Libraries.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is powerful, complex, ubiquitous, often opaque, sometimes invisible, and increasingly consequential in our everyday lives. Navigating the effects of AI as well as utilizing it in a responsible way requires a level of awareness, understanding, and skill that is not provid...

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Published in:Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 1 - 16
Main Authors: Ridley, Michael, Pawlick-Potts, Danica
Format: Journal Article
Published: American Library Association 2021
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          Ridley, Michael
          Pawlick-Potts, Danica
        affil: Librarian Emeritus, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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          Algorithms
          Information Literacy
          Libraries
          Artificial Intelligence
          Decision Making
          Machine Learning
          Libraries, Public
          Computers and Computerization
          Problem Solving
          Data Analytics
      ab: Artificial intelligence (AI) is powerful, complex, ubiquitous, often opaque, sometimes invisible, and increasingly consequential in our everyday lives. Navigating the effects of AI as well as utilizing it in a responsible way requires a level of awareness, understanding, and skill that is not provided by current digital literacy or information literacy regimes. Algorithmic literacy addresses these gaps. In arguing for a role for libraries in algorithmic literacy, the authors provide a working definition, a pressing need, a pedagogical strategy, and two specific contributions that are unique to libraries.
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