Abstract: The inherent attributes of the concept of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content(AIGC) remains a matter of contention within the field of library and information science/ information resources management(IRM). As the issue is closely related to the core research content of IRM research, delving into this problem is significant to understand the key research areas of the discipline, with a focus on AIGC research and a moderate expansion of the disciplinary scope. This study utilized both conceptual and comparative analysis methods to investigate the inherent attributes of AIGC and its related concepts, analyzing the information resources characteristics of AIGC from three perspectives, namely, knowledge philosophy, practical needs, and disciplinary construction, thus proving the necessity of incorporating AIGC into IRM research. Moreover, this study demonstrated the rationality through an analysis of AIGC’s source technology and an examination of the information chain, leading to a renewed understanding within the framework of IRM. Notably, this study clearly identified the inherent attribute of AIGC as the value of information resources, which is one of the core research content of IRM discipline. Additionally, it presented 6 pressing research topics on AIGC for the field of IRM to address.

Key words: Artificial Intelligence Generated Content(AIGC), Information resources, Information chain, Generative AI(GAI), ChatGPT, Information resources management, Future agenda