The Importance of Teaching Artificial Intelligence Course in Information Sciences, Libraries and Archives Departments... A Survey Study from the Point of View of Faculty Members in Libyan Universities

It is no secret what information facilities and institutions have witnessed and are witnessing in the past years of successive developments and transformations, as the content, place, people, services and tools in information institutions have been affected by smart technologies, and new concepts have emerged such as the smart library, the library of the future, and the library in the smart city...etc., and the emergence of these names has created an imbalance between the type of jobs that are supposed to exist in information institutions as a labor market, and the roles of academic programs, in a clearer sense in terms of supply and demand in the type and size of the outputs of these academic programs.
In light of this, the size of the challenge and bet emerged as it constitutes an additional burden for those in charge of academic programs specialized in teaching information sciences and libraries, which imposed on academic institutions at various levels (undergraduate and postgraduate levels) the necessity of reviewing their programs, plans and objectives, to keep pace with contemporary developments, whether in relation to courses and their components or to the competencies, skills and abilities that faculty members should provide to students and feed the labor market with them later.
Therefore, the study mainly aims to: Know the point of view of faculty members in the departments of information sciences and libraries education at Libyan universities on the importance of teaching artificial intelligence applications in the field of information services,