[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of US Higher Education Faculty 2024, Use of Academic Library Resources About AI Info Literacy, ISBN 979-8-88517-212-7

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Increasingly, academic libraries are being called on to provide information
about artificial intelligence.  This report looks at faculty attendance at
academic library seminars and webinars about AI, and at use of other
library provided guidance through listservs, websites, blogs and other
venues.  It also looks at faculty expectations of the role that they expect
the library to play in plagiarism detection, the archiving and sharing of
effective AI prompts, and the provision of specialized AI laboratories and
platforms.  The study helps its readers to answer questions such as:  what
role do faculty expect the library to play in the roll out of AI in higher
education?  How satisfied are they with the role that the library is
currently playing? How do they view the library role vs. that at other
academic and administrative departments such as Teaching and Learning? What
percentage of faculty have attended a library seminar or webinar about AI?
Or researched the issue through a library provided blog or webpage?

Data in the report is based on a representative survey of 771 faculty from
more than 450 colleges and universities. Data is presented in the aggregate
and  broken out by a broad range of personal and institutional variables
including but not limited to work title, gender, ethnicity/race, academic
field, income level, college type, college size and public/private status.

Just a few of this 92 page report’s many findings are that:

• 37.14% of the deans and department heads in the sample had attended an
academic library sponsored or hosted seminar or webinar on artificial
intelligence.

• Scholars in architecture, visual and fine arts were the most likely to
have sought AI-related information from the academic library website.

• Faculty under age 30 were much likelier than older faculty to have
consulted a library Libguide about artificial intelligence.

• Faculty at community colleges were the least satisfied with their
academic library efforts to inform faculty about artificial intelligence.

• Faculty of Asian or Hispanic origin were more likely than those of other
backgrounds to feel that their academic library had a dedicated AI
librarian or librarian with special expertise in this area.

For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the
product page for this report at: www.primaryresearch.com
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