Joyce Johnston

As a specialist in intellectual property, Joyce Johnston has written and spoken on issues of information access for more than 20 years. After a year as a regular contributor to the ALA’s Intellectual Freedom blog, she followed her first presentation at an Internet Librarian Conference by publishing an article based on her presentation in the April 2020 issue of Computers in Libraries. This year's session explores the challenge of working with agentive AI in libraries--a version of AI that has its own agenda and  makes its own decisions but rarely hallucinates or panders to researcher's biases. It is so new that it is fully operational at only one single university library in the U. S. Joyce's initial focus is on digital copyright, expanding to such issues as online civility, the right to be forgotten and use of social media by libraries to construct their virtual personas.  In her career as a Professor of English at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, she teaches advanced research techniques to juniors and seniors in science, tech and business fields.

Computers in Libraries 2026

Computers in Libraries 2018