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About
Founder AI4LIB, Former Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC)
Trained across anthropology, library and information science, and computer science with experience in government informatics — three fields that taught me the same lesson from different angles: own the pipes, and you decide what flows through them. I write about what AI is actually doing inside libraries and scholarly publishing, and what the profession should do about it.
Filed under “S” — Scholars, Standing
AI can produce an answer that reads beautifully, cites confidently, and is completely wrong. A recurring theme: teaching people to ask how do you know this is true, not just how well it reads.
My working rule for AI in research and cataloguing: verify the source, disclose the tool, validate the output.
The question has moved on from "should we use AI" to "who is responsible when it's wrong."
Diamond Open Access, national publishing platforms, and a running argument that scholarly infrastructure should be owned, not rented.
A community for librarians working on what AI actually means for the profession.
Custom GPTs for classification and cataloguing of books and generating downloadable MARC records.
Long-form pieces on AI, libraries, and scholarly publishing.