SCONUL has been exploring the AI’s impact on teaching and learning, on research and on library operations. Our AI group and recent webinars added to this list of resources but there are many others. If you would like to recommend resources to be added here, please contact sconul@sconul.ac.uk.

Reports/toolkits

• AI-Powered Cataloguing: A Practical Guide to Building a Cataloguing Application with Power Apps - a practical guide to AI cataloguing
• Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit - ARL’s Libraries AI Toolkit for library leaders who want to integrate the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios into planning activities. September 2025 
• ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures  - ARL and CNI’s AI-Influenced Futures to help libraries strategically plan for the transformative power of artificial intelligence. June 2024 
• Artificial intelligence (AI) in libraries - Research report from Leeds University Library on the potential and practical implications of AI in libraries. February 2023
• Ithaka's Gen AI product tracker - a useful look at what is on the market in Higher Education.
• Ithaka's Gen AI licencing agreement tool - track who is using their scholarly content in LLMs.
• Jisc National Centre for AI - guidance and resources for working with AI in Higher Education.
• ACRL's AI resource page - a more US based approach to developments in AI.
• KR21 Principles on Artificial Intelligence Science and Research - this document looks at the regulatory and copyright issues around the use of AI.
• Keep calm and carry on ...Using ChatGPT, Wilson, Ninian. June 2023
• Striking a balance: integrating AI into assessment, Arnold, Lydia, June 2023
• The AI Revolution in Education: Will AI Replace or Assist Teachers in Higher Education?, Chan, Cecilia K.Y., Tsi, Louisa H.Y. May 2023
• The updated non-technical introduction to ChatGPT. Beckingham and Hartley. March 2023
• AI and assessment in higher education : reflections, Arnold, Lydia, 15 February 2023

Webinars, conferences and presentations

• The AI focused Fantastic Futures conference came to the British Library in December 2025 and the published papers and session recordings are available here.
• Artificial Intelligence and Teaching and Learning in UK Universities, Professor Jackie Potter, Dean of Academic Innovation, University of Chester, An exploration of the impact of AI on teaching and learning at UK universities. 26 June 2023 
• How should our higher education institutions respond?, Sue Beckingham, Peter Hartley, May 2023 
• Occupational Heterogeneity in Exposure to Generative AI, Felten, Edward W. and Raj, Manav and Seamans, Robert, 10 April, 2023
• AI for libraries; Part 2 – Libraries as AI generator, Webinar considering the scope for the use of AI tools in supporting library functions including user support and teaching and learning; discovery; preservation and supporting scholarship, May 2022 (Available for members: please log in for access).
• AI for libraries: Part 1 – Libraries as AI customer, Webinar exploring the library as customers for AI services - what it means to engage critically with these technologies; how to assess value and to ensure they are ethically grounded, as well as ensuring the workforce is AI literate to an appropriate level, May 2022 (Available for members: please log in for access).
•  JISC AI literacy webinar series - moving from AI basics to creative uses of AI.