Using AI for Library Instruction: This discussion posting explores the process of utilizing an AI-driven tool to help define a research topic and inform the search and discovery process by providing relevant keywords, databases, and Boolean strings. The merits and disadvantages of an AI-driven approach are discussed from the unique viewpoint of research in the hard sciences.

Andrew Henrichs began the Master of Library and Information Science program at San Jose State University in the fall of 2022. Prior to entering the program, Andrew obtained a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and worked for almost ten years for the Nevada System of Higher Education. He successfully completed an internship with the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, California in the spring of 2024, and will be graduating in the spring of 2025 with an emphasis on information organization, description, analysis and retrieval.