Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Volume: 22, Number: 2 (June 2026) has recently published a special focus issue entitled, Ethical AI: Challenges and Opportunities for Collections Stewardship in GLAM. This timely and thought-provoking issue is now freely available to explore on the SAGE online first platform. This issue includes the following articles:
Introduction
Finding Common Ground in GLAM: Ethical AI in Three Themes by Angela I. Fritz
Articles
Enhancing Ethical AI Literacy: A Thematic Review for GLAM Practitioners by Izabella Botto, Carmela Furio and Rachel Romero
Assessing Artificial Intelligence for Ethical Use in Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Erin Baucom
Archival Reference Services in an Age of AI by Jesse A. Johnston and Meghan Courtney
"Learning in the Flow": AI Microskilling and Ethical Stewardship in GLAMs by Angela I. Fritz
Case Studies
Transparent Practices: OCR and AI in the Archives by Rebecca Hastings and Andrew Weymouth
Ethical AI at the British Library: A PhD Placement Project by Jeanette Croen
Ethical AI Implementation in Archival Metadata Generation: A Case Study of the WBFO Radio Archive AI Pilot Project by Hope Dunbar and Kenneth Axford
Notes from the Field
Navigating the Limitations of AI in Archival Description: Can and Should AI Write Biographical Notes? by Amelia Verkerk and Ren Harman
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Angela Fritz, PhD, MLS
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
University of Iowa
aifritz@uiowa.edu------------------------------