<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 0cm;line-height:15pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">New
York, NY – June 18, 2025</span></strong><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> –
Primary Research Group Inc. has published "Survey of Academic Library
Leadership 2025, Policies on Podcasts" which provides valuable insights
into the policies and practices of academic libraries regarding podcasts.</span></p>

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study is based on interviews with 51 academic library directors and other upper
management officials in college and academic libraries, predominantly in the
United States.  The report looks at
collection and metadata efforts in podcast content, use of such content in
course reserves, as well as policies about archiving of faculty podcasts, and
library production of its own podcasts.  The
study  gives its readers a detailed
picture of how academic libraries are approaching the emerging area of podcast
content, detailing collection and archiving efforts, both for podcasts produced
by one's own faculty or library, and for podcasts in cyberspace.  Data is presented in the aggregate and also
broken out by size and type of college, for public and private institutions, by
tuition level and by personal characteristics of the survey respondents.</span></p>

<p style="margin:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 0cm;line-height:15pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Just a
few of this 41 page report’s many findings are that: </span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">12.5%
of doctoral institution academic libraries have a policy or formal effort to
archive faculty podcasts in an institutional repository or other archive.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Men
were more likely than women to archive podcasts.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Efforts
to provide metadata and finding aids for podcasts still considerably lags that
of other digital resources.</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">All
users of  automated metadata extraction
tools for podcasts were under the age of 50 and predominantly female.</span></p>

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table of contents, sample pages, and list of participants, view the product
page for this report on our website at: </span></p>

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