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.