Reshaping Academic Library Information Literacy Programs in the Advent of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI Technologies

This article reports on three digital information literacy initiatives created by instruction librarians to support students’ use of generative AI technologies, namely ChatGPT, in academic library research. The cumulative and formative data gathered from the initiatives reveals a continuing need for academic libraries to provide information literacy instruction that guides students toward the ethical use of information and awareness of using generative AI tools in library research. Moreover, analysis of the cumulative data gathered from Mentimeter anonymous surveys has led to the further reshaping of our existing information literacy program as students’ AI literacy develops in their use of AI tools at California State University, Los Angeles.