AI Art, Libraries, and Institutional Repositories:

Following the widespread release of generative “AI Art” tools like DALL-E in mid-2022, the University of Mississippi Libraries conducted a pilot workshop in collaboration with the University of Mississippi Department of Art and Art History to explore AI-generated art within a library context. This collaboration involved art students and faculty in producing and evaluating works created with DALL-E. Insights from this project, including images, participant feedback, and an experiment in integrating images into the eGrove institutional repository, have the potential to contribute to ongoing discussions about generative AI art in library frameworks.