UDStax: AI Chatbot for Library Services and Spaces
In Summer 2023, our Information Technology (IT) and Research and Engagement departments teamed up to pilot an innovative, AI-powered chatbot called UDStax. UDStax is designed to answer simple questions about library resources and services, while directing users to a librarian for more complex questions requiring human coaching and guidance. This pilot aims to gauge the campus community’s interest in using the chatbot and to assess the staff resources needed to maintain it effectively.
Our development experience has been published in an open-access, peer-reviewed journal:
UD Library AI-related Research Guides
University of Delaware librarians have developed research guides to assist faculty, staff and students in using AI tools in ethical ways to enhance learning:
AI Literacy Tutorial
In the AI Literacy tutorial, you’ll learn the basics of how AI technology works, ways to incorporate AI that maintain your authentic voice and ideas, effective prompting skills, and explore complicated issues that surround AI such as copyright, bias, and transparency. You’ll navigate through 9 pages and a review quiz. The whole tutorial should take about 1 hour.
Other AI Research Guides
AI Research Assistant Pilot
The Library, Museums and Press are piloting an AI Research Assistant through spring 2026. The AI Research Assistant is a generative AI-powered tool that enables users to query academic content in natural language and utilizes select UD Library resources to pinpoint five articles that can aid in answering your question. Let us know what you think about the DELCAT AI Research Pilot by taking the DELCAT AI Research Pilot Survey.