Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate syllabi, assignments, and handouts quickly and adapt them to course goals and standards.

Develop and teach online courses.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can design course structures, produce content, and deliver instructional modules through adaptive platforms, enabling end-to-end online course development and teaching.

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as collection development, archival methods, and indexing and abstracting.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can research topics, generate lecture materials, and deliver prerecorded or live synthesized presentations on specialized subjects, covering preparation and delivery.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can draft coherent, competitive grant proposals including narratives and budgets, accelerating proposal writing though final judgments and institutional approvals remain human responsibilities.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate exam items, automate administration through LMS, and grade objective and rubric-based responses, and can delegate grading tasks, covering the compilation, administration, and grading pipeline.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can fully manage attendance, grading, and record-keeping through LMS integration and automation with minimal human intervention.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can search databases, identify specialized materials, and compile and format bibliographies accurately and quickly.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and present findings in professional journals, books, electronic media, or at professional conferences.

AI: Partial - AI can accelerate literature reviews, data analysis, and manuscript drafting, but independent hypothesis generation, experimental or field execution, ethical oversight, and accountable authorship still require human leadership.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, giving presentations at conferences, and serving on committees in professional associations.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor literature feeds, summarize developments, and help prepare presentations, but cannot fully replace interactive colleague discussions, conference networking, and committee service that keep a scholar current.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

AI: Partial - AI can accurately grade objective assignments and provide rubric-based feedback on many written tasks, yet subjective evaluation, pedagogical judgment, and academic integrity decisions generally require human oversight.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

AI: Partial - AI can generate prompts and moderate online forums but lacks the full real-time socio-emotional judgment and classroom presence required for human-facilitated discussions.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

AI: Partial - AI can analyze learning outcomes, suggest revisions, and map curricula but cannot fully account for institutional politics, accreditation subtleties, and human judgment in curriculum planning.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor student progress, suggest supervision plans, and support administrative tasks but cannot fully replace human mentorship, evaluation, and interpersonal supervision in research and internships.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

AI: Partial - AI can draft collaborative documents, synthesize research, and propose solutions but cannot fully engage in the interpersonal negotiation and shared governance needed for true collegial collaboration.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

AI: Partial - AI can provide tailored curricular and career advice based on data and labor-market information but lacks the personalized mentorship, institutional knowledge, and human empathy of an advisor.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

AI: Partial - AI can host scheduled virtual advising and answer many student questions but lacks the full interpersonal judgment, mentorship, and official responsibility of a human advisor.

Edit manuscripts for professional journals.

AI: Partial - AI can perform thorough copyediting and provide substantive editing suggestions reliably, but expert editorial judgment and final responsibility for publication standards remain human tasks.

Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.

AI: Partial - AI can prepare analyses, drafts, and briefing materials for committees but cannot fully occupy deliberative, accountable membership roles that require human judgment and governance authority.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.

AI: Partial - AI can research, rank, and even automate ordering of materials like textbooks, but final selection and nuanced procurement decisions typically require human oversight.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

AI: Partial - AI can automate many administrative workflows and provide decision support, yet cannot fully assume leadership responsibilities, hiring decisions, and institutional accountability of a department head.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

AI: Partial - AI can handle outreach automation, registration logistics, and placement matching, but high-touch recruitment, interviews, and nuanced placement negotiations still need humans.

Participate in campus and community events.

AI: Partial - AI can support event planning, promotion, and remote participation, but cannot fully replicate in-person presence, networking, and community relationship-building.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

AI: Partial - AI can generate analyses, scenarios, and recommendations for government or industry clients, but cannot fully replace human consultants for legal responsibility, trust, and complex stakeholder management.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

AI: Partial - AI can generate advising resources, meeting agendas, outreach communications, and program plans for student organizations but cannot fully substitute the human judgment, institutional authority, and relationship-building required of an adviser.