Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in University Libraries in Nigeria. “Strategies and Challenges”: A Review.

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a potential transformative technology that can revolutionize library services and engage users, facilitate access, and optimize library functions. The main aim of this review is to assess how artificial intelligence technologies are being adopted in Nigerian university libraries, exploring both the enabling strategies and challenges faced during this process. Objectives are to: identify artificial intelligence tools currently in use in university libraries in Nigeria and their service applications, examine strategic approaches to implementing artificial intelligence, highlight challenges hindering effective adoption and integration of artificial intelligence and propose recommendations that may help to enhance adoption artificial intelligence and its sustainability in university libraries in Nigeria. The study reviewed current literature globally on infrastructural, organizational, and human capacity that enable artificial intelligence adoption and underscores gaps, barriers, and prospects in the adoption curve. Findings shows that ChatGPT is a major AI tool utilized by librarians in Nigeria on a person bases but it has not been embedded in library services due to technology insufficiency, policy vacuum, lack of staff capabilities, as well as financial limitations. The paper ends with strategic suggestions on how to better prepare libraries for artificial intelligence integration to support sustainable transformation of library service.