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University Librarian
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Michael Paulus, MLIS, DMin
University Librarian
Michael Paulus leads the University Libraries at Creighton University. Before coming to Creighton, Dr. Paulus was Dean of the Library, Assistant Provost for Educational Technology, and Associate Professor of Information Studies at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington. Other previous roles include directing the archives and special collections program at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and supervising technical services for special collections at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.
Dr. Paulus’s administrative and research interests focus on the reflective and responsible integration of AI into libraries and institutions of higher education. His latest book, Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence (2026), argues for the importance of libraries in an age of artificial agency. Dr. Paulus is also the author of Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination: Artificial Agency and Human Hope (2023) and co-editor of AI, Faith, and the Future: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2022). His current book project, “A PARADIGM for the Future of Work,” presents a framework for creating meaningful work with AI.
Position
University Librarian
Books
- Paulus Michael, Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination 2023
- Paulus Michael, AI, Faith, and the Future 2022
- Past or Portal?
Paulus Michael, What is Primary: Teaching Archival Epistemology and the Sources Continuum [Book Chapter] 2012 - Charles Williams and His Contemporaries
Paulus Michael, From a Publisher’s Point of View: Charles Williams’s Role in Publishing Kierkegaard in English [Book Chapter] 2009
Publications
- Christian scholar's review
Paulus Michael, Langford Michael D., Baker Bruce, A Framework for Digital Wisdom in Higher Education
49:1, p. 43 - 61 2019 - VII : an Anglo-American literary review
Paulus Michael, Charles Williams’s Theology of Publishing
34, p. - 2017 - Journal of the Early Republic
Paulus Jr. M.J., Paulus Michael, Archibald Alexander and the Use of Books: Theological Education and Print Culture in the Early Republic.
31:4, p. - 2011 - Portal
Paulus Jr. M.J., Paulus Michael, Reconceptualizing Academic Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age
11:4, p. - 2011 - Libraries & the cultural record
Paulus Michael, The Converging Histories and Futures of Libraries, Archives, and Museums as Seen through the Case of the Curious Collector Myron Eells
46:2, p. 185 - 205 2011 - Libraries and the Cultural Record
Paulus Jr. M.J., Paulus Michael, Cultural Record Keepers: The Myron Eells Northwest History Collection, Whitman College.
43:2, p. - 2008 - Journal of Archival Organization
Paulus Jr. M.J., Paulus Michael, Blogging for the Record: A Study of Blogging from an Archival Point of View
4:3-4, p. - 2007 - Libraries and the Cultural Record
Paulus Jr. M.J., Paulus Michael, Beyond 'Pabulum for the Undergraduates': The Development of the Princeton Theological Seminary Library in the Nineteenth Century
42:3, p. - 2007 - Princeton Seminary Bulletin
Paulus Michael, Alexander Archibald, The Use and Abuse of Books
26:3, p. 332 - 340 2005
Presentations
- Information, Automation, and Virtue: A Framework for Designing New Information Processes and Practices 2024