The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has accelerated the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across knowledge intensive sectors, yet its integration in Library and Information Services (LIS) within resource constrained educational environments remains limited and under examined. This empirical paper seeks to explore the impact of AI integration in LIS and the associated challenges. This research examines the various applications of AI in libraries. The paper intends to identify the benefits and challenges associated with AI integration in libraries. This study adopted a qualitative descriptive design informed by phenomenological principles to study how AI application is perceived by key stakeholders to be beneficial and what barriers constrain AI uptake, and in what new areas AI can be applied in teachers’ college libraries. The study was anchored to the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) where the effect of Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU) on the stakeholders’ preparedness to adopt AI was analysed as an interpretive lens. Sixty participants (library staff, ICT experts and Computer Science students) were interviewed in-depth, participated in focus gr
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