Factors affecting intention of academic librarians in Pakistan universities to use AI tools: an extension of the UTAUT model

Muhammad Yousuf Ali, PhD Library and Information Science and serving as Associate Librarian, Faculty of Health Science Libraries at The Aga Khan University and has 33 research articles published in various renowned journals of LIS. His area of interest is information literacy, artificial intelligence applications in libraries and academic scholarly networks.

Salman Bin Naeem is faculty member of the Department of Information Management at The Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab. He supervised MPhil and PhD level research. He has more than 74 research publications, including research articles, book chapters and conference papers. His areas of interest are fake news, health literacy, public health and innovative technologies applications in libraries.

Rubina Bhatti is the Dean of Faculty of Social Science and Chairperson of the Department of Information Management at The Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab. She has vast experience in teaching and supervising research at the MPhil and PhD levels. She has 150-plus research items on her credits, including research articles, book chapters and conference papers. Her area of interest is continue library education, lifelong learning and development of libraries and user-centric innovative services.

Joanna Richardson was Library Strategy Advisor, Griffith University, Australia, until she retired in 2020. Previously, she was responsible for scholarly content and discovery services, including repositories, research publications and resource discovery. Joanna has also worked as an Information Technology Librarian in university libraries in both North America and Australia and has been a lecturer in LIS. Recent publications have been centred around library research support, open access and artificial intelligence in academic libraries.