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Insights & Findings

Data-driven articles based on findings from our own survey research. Each piece links back to the underlying benchmark report for the full tables and methodology.

Are Law Faculty Embracing AI Features from Legal Publishers?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans, law librarians, legal publishers, curriculum committees and faculty-development leaders
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Are Special Collections Part of Institutional Strategy?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, library directors, provosts, deans and institutional-planning teams
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How Deep Is the Special-Collections Funding Gap?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library directors, special-collections heads, development officers, provosts and donors
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Can Special Collections Keep Up with Physical Preservation Needs?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, conservators, library directors, facilities teams and preservation vendors
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Do Special Collections Have Enough Staff?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections managers, library directors, HR leaders, provosts and professional associations
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How Safe Do Students Feel in the Academic Library?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library directors, campus-security leaders, student-affairs teams, facilities officers and risk managers
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Will Computer-Science Faculty Supply Content to AI Models?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Computer-science deans, research offices, publishers, AI developers, counsel and faculty-governance leaders
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Are Library-Science Faculty Losing Control of Their Content to AI?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library-school leaders, faculty senates, scholarly-communications librarians, publishers and university counsel
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Do Academic Libraries Survey Their Users Strategically?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library directors, assessment librarians, provosts, UX teams and survey-platform vendors
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Should Academic Libraries Use Motion Detection to Measure Space?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library facilities leaders, assessment teams, privacy officers, campus IT and occupancy-technology vendors
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How Selective Should Special Collections Be About New Donations?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections heads, university archivists, advancement offices, donors and library administrators
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Can Reproductions and Licensing Produce Meaningful Income?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, rights managers, library business officers, publishers and image-licensing teams
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Are Finding Aids Easy Enough for Researchers to Use?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Archivists, special-collections leaders, discovery vendors, metadata teams and UX researchers
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How Large Are Special-Collections Digitization Backlogs?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Digitization managers, special-collections leaders, library directors, funders and imaging vendors
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How Systematic Is Special-Collections Fundraising?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, development officers, grant writers, library directors and foundations
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Which Special-Collections Outreach Programs Drive Engagement?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, outreach librarians, faculty, development teams and community-relations offices
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Are Academic-Library HVAC Problems Becoming a Service Issue?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library directors, campus facilities teams, preservation leaders, sustainability officers and architects
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What Academic-Library Furniture Should Be Replaced First?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library facilities leaders, architects, furniture vendors, student-success teams and campus planners
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Who Really Controls Academic-Library Facilities Decisions?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library directors, campus facilities leaders, provosts, finance officers and capital-planning teams
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Are Students Still Using Library Fixed Workstations?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library IT leaders, facilities planners, student-success teams, accessibility staff and computer vendors
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Should Law Schools Put More Emphasis on Practical Legal Skills?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans, curriculum committees, clinical faculty, employers and accreditation leaders
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Would Law Faculty Support a Two-Year Legal Education Model?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans, trustees, regulators, curriculum planners and legal-education policy analysts
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Should Law Schools Link Tuition Aid to Public-Interest Work?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans, financial-aid offices, public-interest centers, foundations and prospective students
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How Common Is Paid Collaboration Between Computer-Science Faculty and Tech Firms?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Computer-science deans, research offices, conflict-of-interest committees, technology firms and faculty
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Are Library-Science Faculty Expecting Federal Research Funding to Shrink?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library-school deans, research offices, faculty, associations and foundations
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How Much Immediate Damage Have IMLS Grant Cancellations Caused?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library-science faculty, research administrators, grant offices, associations and policymakers
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Is Online Legal Education Likely to Expand?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans, online-program leaders, faculty, accreditors and education-technology providers
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Who Uses Academic-Library Chat Services—and Who Avoids Them?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Survey of American College Students 2025, Use of Academic Library Chatbots & Chat Services
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Should Law Schools Build Shared Repositories for AI Prompts?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law faculty, law librarians, knowledge-management teams, legal-tech vendors and curriculum committees
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Are Universities Measuring Grant Success Systematically?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Research offices, provosts, deans, institutional-research teams and faculty
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Do Faculty Track the True Cost of Grant Applications?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Research administrators, deans, faculty, finance offices and grant-support consultants
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How Much Research Travel Support Are Faculty Receiving?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Provosts, research offices, faculty-affairs leaders, deans and conference organizers
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Are Research Offices Strong Enough at Grant-Writing Support?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Research-office leaders, provosts, deans, faculty and proposal-development consultants
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Is Virtual Reality Ready for Mainstream Legal Education?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans, faculty, simulation-center leaders, law librarians and education-technology vendors
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Do Law Faculty Trust Cloud Storage for Their Work?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school IT leaders, faculty, law librarians, privacy officers and cloud-service providers
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Are Rubrics Becoming the Default Assessment Tool?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Assessment officers, provosts, faculty-development leaders, accreditors and learning-platform vendors
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How Are Assessment Offices Using Generative AI?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Chief assessment officers, institutional-research leaders, provosts, faculty and AI vendors
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Should Colleges Require Students to Meet with Academic Advisors?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Academic-advising leaders, provosts, student-success teams, deans and retention officers
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Is Online Academic Advising Becoming Standard?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Advising directors, student-success leaders, campus IT, faculty advisers and collaboration-platform vendors
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How Common Is Embedded Tutoring?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Tutoring-program directors, faculty, student-success leaders, provosts and learning-center staff
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Which Cloud Services Are Law Faculty Using?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Law-school technology leaders, law librarians, faculty-development teams and cloud vendors
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How Much of the Worlds Fragile Collections Has Been Digitized?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, museum directors, digitization managers, funders and preservation vendors
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Are Rare-Materials Digitization Programs Properly Insured and Trained?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library and museum leaders, risk managers, digitization labs, insurers and preservation consultants
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Which Departmental Fundraisers Are Most Common?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Department chairs, advancement teams, alumni-relations offices, deans and event planners
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How Active Are Academic Departments in Fundraising?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Department chairs, deans, advancement officers, faculty leaders and higher-education consultants
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Which Tutoring Formats Are Most Widely Available?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Tutoring directors, student-success teams, academic affairs leaders and online-learning vendors
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Are Peer Tutors Becoming More Important?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Learning-center directors, student-employment offices, faculty, finance leaders and tutoring-platform vendors
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Are Academic Libraries Teaching Faculty to Use AI for Data Management?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Data librarians, library directors, research offices, faculty-development teams and campus IT
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Is AI Producing Major Productivity Gains in Faculty Data Work?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Research leaders, faculty, data librarians, AI vendors and university technology officers
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Do College Students Think AI Skills Matter?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Provosts, career-services leaders, faculty-development teams, employers and AI-education providers
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Are Special-Collections Security Policies and Training Adequate?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, library directors, risk managers, campus security and insurers
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Are Environmental Incidents a Greater Threat Than Theft?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections managers, preservation leaders, facilities teams, risk officers and insurers
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Are Programming and Management Skills Under-Taught in Library Schools?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library-school deans, curriculum committees, employers, faculty and professional associations
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How Serious Is the Special-Collections Legacy-Metadata Problem?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, metadata librarians, archivists, discovery vendors and library directors
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Are Colleges Teaching Students to Use Generative AI?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Provosts, faculty, teaching centers, libraries, career-services teams and students
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How Reliable Is Off-Campus Library Authentication?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library IT leaders, e-resource managers, campus identity teams, publishers and access vendors
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Are Academic Libraries Preserving Faculty Podcasts?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Scholarly-communications librarians, repository managers, faculty, archivists and podcast producers
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Are Academic Libraries Ready to Teach Scholarly AI Discovery?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library directors, instruction librarians, research offices, faculty and scholarly-discovery vendors
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Which Students Are Using 3D Printers?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library makerspace leaders, engineering educators, student-success teams, campus planners and equipment vendors
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Should Library-School Curricula Follow the Job Market More Closely?

August 31, 2026 · Written for Library-school deans, faculty, employers, students, accreditors and professional associations
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Are Special Collections Ready for Born-Digital Materials?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Special-collections heads, archivists, digital-preservation staff, library directors and funders
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What Should Academic Libraries Demand Before Licensing AI?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Library directors, licensing librarians, privacy officers, counsel, procurement teams and vendors
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What AI Skills Should Every Law Student Learn?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans, curriculum committees, law librarians, career offices and legal employers
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How Much Are Faculty Using AI for Scholarly Discovery?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Research offices, academic libraries, faculty-development teams, provosts and discovery vendors
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Which Faculty Are Most Likely to Deposit Work in Digital Repositories?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Repository managers, scholarly-communications librarians, research offices and university presses
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Where Are Academic-Library Budgets Most Likely to Grow?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Library directors, provosts, budget officers, publishers, streaming providers and recruiters
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Is Library-School AI Education Keeping Up with Employer Needs?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Library-school deans, faculty, accreditation leaders, employers and professional associations
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What Is the Future of Print in Law Libraries?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Law-library directors, law-school deans, firm librarians, legal publishers and space planners
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Can Law Libraries Meet Rising Research Demand with Flat Staffing?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Law-library directors, deans, managing partners, HR leaders and legal-information vendors
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What Should Academic Libraries Renovate First?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Library directors, facilities officers, provosts, architects, furniture vendors and donors
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Are Inconsistent Campus AI Rules Confusing Students?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Provosts, student-affairs leaders, faculty senates, teaching centers and academic-integrity teams
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How Are College Marketing Offices Using AI?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Enrollment leaders, college marketers, communications teams, agencies and marketing-technology vendors
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Where Can AI Help Interlibrary Loan—and Where Has It Not?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Interlibrary-loan managers, resource-sharing consortia, library directors and automation vendors
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Which Special-Collections Projects Are Most Likely to Win Funding?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Special-collections directors, development officers, grant writers, digitization vendors and donors
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Will AI Tutoring Replace Human Tutors in Higher Education?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Tutoring-center directors, student-success leaders, provosts, edtech vendors and academic libraries
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Which Authentication Systems Are Academic Libraries Using?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Library-technology leaders, electronic-resources teams, CIOs, vendors and access-services staff
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How Serious Is the Theft Risk in Academic Special Collections?

August 30, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, library directors, risk managers, campus security and insurers
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Which Academic-Library Functions Are Using AI First?

August 26, 2026 · Written for Library directors, AI working groups, research-support leaders and library-technology vendors
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How Many Academic Libraries Are Licensing Enterprise AI?

August 26, 2026 · Written for academic Library directors, university librarians, AI specialists, electronic-resources teams, procurement officers, CIOs and AI vendors
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Are Lawyers Using the AI Tools Built into Legal Research Platforms?

August 26, 2026 · Written for Law-firm partners, law librarians, knowledge leaders, legal-operations teams and publishers, law school faculty
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Where Are Academic Libraries Already Seeing Benefits from Generative AI?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Academic-library directors, provosts, CIOs, staff-development leaders and library vendors

Primary Research Group's survey of ~50 academic-library directors: research universities lead productivity gains, and 15% report a dramatic positive effect on AI-literacy instruction.

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How Large Is the Academic-Library Metadata Remediation Challenge?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Metadata managers, repository leaders, systems librarians, consultants and remediation vendors

Primary Research Group finds 63% of metadata librarians rate remediation a high strategic priority, but 58% cite staffing as the primary obstacle.

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Are Cataloging and Metadata Departments Adequately Staffed?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Academic-library directors, technical-services leaders, human-resources teams and recruiters

Primary Research Group finds more than 70% of cataloging and metadata departments rate staffing below adequate, with 44% expecting demand for metadata specialists.

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How Are Academic Libraries Reallocating Space?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Library directors, campus facilities officers, architects, furniture vendors and student-success leaders

Primary Research Group finds 53.3% of academic libraries have reduced print-stack space in the past three years to expand user space. But 45% have no current space plan.

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How Quickly Are Academic Libraries Moving Toward BIBFRAME?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Technical-services directors, metadata librarians, systems vendors and library-school educators

Primary Research Group's survey of cataloging librarians: 74.47% are interested in linked data, but only 17.02% believe they have adequate BIBFRAME training.

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Are Library-Science Faculty Building and Sharing AI Prompt Libraries?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Library-school faculty, academic libraries, professional associations and AI-training providers

Primary Research Group finds 31% of library-science faculty have used a prompt library, but only 9% have contributed prompts back — and none use an academic library to share them.

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How Is Generative AI Changing the Computer-Science Curriculum?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Computer-science deans, curriculum committees, teaching centers and employers

Primary Research Group's survey of CS faculty: only 8.70% believe their department is ahead of peers in teaching AI-assisted coding. Ownership of cross-disciplinary AI training remains unsettled.

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Are Law Firms Training Attorneys Adequately for AI?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Law-firm professional-development, risk, ethics, innovation and knowledge-management leaders

Primary Research Group finds 63% of law firms now offer AI training, but only 14.29% covers verifying AI output accuracy — one of the technology's most important professional risks.

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Is AI Improving the Law-Firm Bottom Line?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Managing partners, legal-operations leaders, knowledge-management teams and legal-tech vendors

Primary Research Group finds 55% of attorneys believe AI will let firms handle more matters without adding headcount, but only 14% report AI has enhanced profitability yet.

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Which Generative-AI Tools Do College Students Use Most?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Provosts, student-affairs leaders, teaching centers, academic libraries and AI vendors

Primary Research Group's Survey of College Students 2025: ChatGPT leads at 64.77% monthly use, but Copilot, Gemini, and Claude are already meaningful shares. Use varies sharply by tuition tier.

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Which Law Firms Are Most Likely to Expand Generative-AI Use?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Law-firm leaders, legal-technology vendors, legal publishers and consultants

Primary Research Group's survey of law-firm attorneys finds midsize firms (50-150 lawyers) are the most bullish on expanding generative-AI use: 64.71% expect significant expansion.

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How Mature Are Digital-Preservation Programs in Academic-Library Special Collections?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Special-collections leaders, repository managers, library directors and preservation vendors

Primary Research Group found 50% of academic-library special collections use a dedicated digital-preservation system, but more than half spend under $10,000 a year on it.

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Will AI Reduce Demand for New Law-Firm Associates?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Law-school deans and faculty, law firms, career services and prospective students

Primary Research Group surveyed 114 law-school faculty on AI's impact on legal education. Only 16.67% believe demand for associates has already fallen, but nearly half expect it will.

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Academic Libraries Giving Faculty Enough AI Support?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Academic-library leaders, faculty-development offices and provosts

A Primary Research Group survey of 660 higher-education faculty found only 8% have a dedicated AI librarian available. Discoverability, not activity, may be the real issue.

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How Are Academic-Library Metadata Departments Using AI?

August 21, 2026 · Written for Metadata librarians, technical-services directors and academic-library leaders

Primary Research Group's survey of 47 metadata librarians shows AI adoption in cataloging is advancing faster than confidence, policy, or institutional support.

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