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About Mary Anne Beauchamp
In 2021, Mary Anne Beauchamp drafted the first model state legislation requiring public libraries to conduct algorithmic impact assessments before deploying AI-powered discovery tools, a response to documented bias in metadata tagging systems that systematically obscured Indigenous knowledge organization. She doesn’t speak abstractly about 'equity in access'; she cites the 37% drop in citation rates for non-English scholarly monographs after a major ILS vendor’s automated subject assignment update in 2023, and she co-developed the Library Metadata Transparency Index now adopted by 14 state library associations. Her office walls hold annotated copies of the Library Bill of Rights alongside FCC spectrum allocation charts, because she insists that broadband infrastructure policy is library policy when rural patrons rely on Wi-Fi hotspots as their only research gateway. She treats copyright term extensions not as legal footnotes but as active constraints on intergenerational knowledge transfer, and her testimony before the U.S. Copyright Office directly influenced the 2024 exemption for preservation of at-risk digital periodicals.
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- “How do you assess bias in library discovery algorithms?”
- “What’s your take on the LSTA’s new AI procurement guidelines?”
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