Hi friends! My name is Isabel and I live in Orange County, CA. My area of interest in the LIS world has ended up being marketing and social media, much to my surprise. I liked learning about marketing strategies in my undergraduate degree, but I didn’t feel good using them for for-profit companies whose missions I didn’t believe in. Marketing for GLAMs or general non-profits has turned out to be the perfect match for me!
If I’m being honest, I chose this course because I’m afraid of how emerging technologies will affect libraries, especially generative AI. On one hand, I am a writer and proponent of the arts, so I don’t like the threat generative AI poses to creative artwork. as another thought, I am alarmed by the lack of critical thinking and original thought that has been emerging as a result of generative AI use. I personally know college students who use AI for all their assignments and people who turn to AI for decision-making before consulting other humans. My fears for library services are that people will prefer to turn to generative AI for their information needs, and that governments and other sponsors will try to replace library workers with artificial intelligence. I know I’ve only talked about AI thus far, but I am also interested in learning about other emerging technologies and their positive and negative effects on the library field. I’m probably most excited to discuss social media and its rising role in library marketing, as this applies to my career and I find social media fascinating in general.
