. With the rapid adoption of AI, coupled with increasing ethical concerns relating to AI usage, bias, and authorship, "Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics, Part I" is the first of two special issues that examine how librarians are grappling with the effects of AI on the field.

Melissa A. Wong, editor in chief of Library Trends, also served as the guest editor for this issue, which is freely available under an open access publishing model. 

The table of contents includes:

Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print.

Back issues (1952 through two years prior to the current issue) are available online through IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Most recently, IDEALS opened public access to Library Trends 70 (4), "Joy of Information."

Please send ideas, inquiries, or issue proposals via email to Wong at [email protected].