Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term, covering a vast area of subfields (cf. Difference between AI and ML). This repository tries to collect various tools, applications, publications and other resources related to AI and relevant in a wide sense for libraries -- with a focus on scientific libraries (in 2023/24 there were 114 university libraries in Germany)
There are a few main categories for use of AI in libraries:
- KI zur internen Arbeitsunterstützung
- KI als Unterstützung der Bibliotheksnutzenden und
- Vermittlung von KI-Kompetenzen (KI Literacy) -- STRATEGISCHE AUSEINANDERSETZUNG MIT KI AN UND ZWISCHEN UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEKEN IN DEUTSCHLAND (2025)
- KI-Tools: Übersicht, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, German
As of 07/2025 the list contains short descriptions of about twenty projects and services
- Bibliotheken und KI, Kompetenznetzwerk für Bibliotheken (knb), Berlin, German
Groups applications into: KI-Unterstützung für die Arbeitsorganisation, KI für die interne Anwendung in Bibliotheken, KI-Anwendungen für Bibliotheksdienstleistungen
- Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz bei der wissenschaftlichen Literaturrecherche: ein Überblick (PDF), UB Augsburg, 2024-06-04
Categorizes AI tools: Assistants, Analysis, Search helpers, Literature Management
- AI-powered cataloging (book, Fall 2025)
- Custom AI tools for cataloguing! (2024)
- Exploring the Future of Library Cataloging with AI and Multilingual Embeddings
- There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI By Teresa Kubacka, Feb 21, 2024
- Evaluating Proprietary and Open-Weight Large Language Models as Universal Decimal Classification Recommender Systems
Cataloging resources generated by AI:
These are applications mentioned in various publications and meta lists.
- ChatGPT
- ChatPDF
- Connected Papers
- Consensus
- Coordination Network
- DocAnalyzer
- Elicit
- ExplainPaper
- Google Gemini
- Huggingface Chat
- Humata
- Inciteful
- Keeniuos
- Litmaps
- Open Knowledge Maps
- Perplexity AI
- Research Rabbit
- ScienceOS
- Scispace
- Scilynk
- Scinapse
- Scite
- Semantic Scholar
- Undermind
These may have RAG and MCP capabilities, can often be used with any model (local, remote, free, proprietary, ...).
- AnythingLLM, GitHub, YCS22
- ChatBox
- ChatRTX
- Cherry Studio, Site
- GPT4ALL ($17M, ...)
- Goose, open source AI agent. Desktop app, CLI, and API
- Jan, Personal Intelligence that answers only to you
- LMStudio
- LocalAI
- Pinokio, AI meta app
- PyGPT, Personal AI Assistant
Tools that are more generic.
- n8n
- ucl.dev
- browser-use, Make websites accessible for AI agents. Automate tasks online with ease
- Claude Code, more on CC in Everything Claude Code
- Cursor
- Gemini cli
- Goose, open source, extensible AI agent
- Kilocode
- OpenAI codex cli
- Qwen-Code
- Roocode
- Void IDE (GH)
- Warp
- cline
- crush -- demo with open source/local models only
- maki, a lightweight Rust TUI with some novel context token reduction techniques
- opencode
- pi
A review of some tools in 10/2025: localllama/1o77ag4
Coding agent overview: Terminal AI Coding Agents, 43 as of 04/2026
- The AI for Education project (AI4ED) ("How Gen AI Can Help with Teaching")
- Ernst, L. (2025). Bibliotheken im Zeitalter von Künstlicher Intelligenz.
- da Silva Cardoso, H., Kusser, N., & Kieselstein, J. (2024). Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz bei der wissenschaftlichen Literaturrecherche: ein Überblick.
- Walder, A. (2025). Künstliche Intelligenz in der Literaturrecherche. Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, 49(1), 109-120.