Law Library Benchmarks, 2024-25 Edition

Table 1.1 For professional employees of your organization (faculty at universities; lawyers at law firms. etc.) about what percentage on a typical day are working at home or otherwise remotely rather than in the office?  Table 1.2 For professional employees of your organization (faculty at universities; lawyers at law firms. etc.) about what percentage on a typical day are working at home or otherwise remotely rather than in the office? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 1.3 For professional employees of your organization (faculty at universities; lawyers at law firms. etc.) about what percentage on a typical day are working at home or otherwise remotely rather than in the office? Broken out by type of library  Table 2.1 Currently, about what percentage of your personal work time is spent working from home or another remote location rather than in your office or traditional workplace?  Table 2.2 Currently about what percentage of your personal work time is spent working from home or another remote location rather than in your office or traditional workplace? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 2.3 Currently, about what percentage of your personal work time is spent working from home or another remote location rather than in your office or traditional workplace? Broken out by type of library  Table 3.1 Over the next year do you expect to spend more, less or about the same amount of time working from home?  Table 3.2 Over the next year do you expect to spend more, less or about the same amount of time working from home? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 3.3 Over the next year do you expect to spend more, less or about the same amount of time working from home? Broken out by type of library  Table 4.1 Over the past three years, the physical space accounted for by your law library has increased, decreased or remained the same?  Table 4.2 Over the past three years, the physical space accounted for by your law library has increased, decreased or remained the same? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 4.3 Over the past three years, the physical space accounted for by your law library has increased, decreased or remained the same? Broken out by type of library  Table 5.1 Over the next three years, do you expect that the physical space accounted for by your law library will increase, decrease or remain the same?  Table 5.2 Over the next three years, do you expect that the physical space accounted for by your law library will increase, decrease or remain the same? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 5.3 Over the next three years, do you expect that the physical space accounted for by your law library will increase, decrease or remain the same? Broken out by type of library  Table 6 For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development? (in US$)  Table 6.1.1 For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development?(in US$) Past Year  Table 6.1.2 For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development? (in US$)  Past Year Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 6.1.3 For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development? (in US$) Past Year Broken out by type of library  Table 6.2.1 For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development? (in US$) Upcoming Year  Table 6.2.2 For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development? (in US$) Upcoming Year Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 6.2.3 For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development? (in US$) Upcoming Year Broken out by type of library  Table 7.1 What are your expectations for salaries for library employees over the next year?  Table 7.2 What are your expectations for salaries for library employees over the next year? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 7.3 What are your expectations for salaries for library employees over the next year? Broken out by type of library  Table 8.1 What do you expect will be the percentage nominal average change in the salaries of librarians working in your library for upcoming 2023-24 fiscal or academic year?  Table 8.2 What do you expect will be the percentage nominal average change in the salaries of librarians working in your library for upcoming 2023-24 fiscal or academic year? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 8.3 What do you expect will be the percentage nominal average change in the salaries of librarians working in your library for upcoming 2023-24 fiscal or academic year? Broken out by type of library  Table 9.1 Which of the following best approximates your library's personnel plans over the next year?  Table 9.2 Which of the following best approximates your library's personnel plans over the next year? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 9.3 Which of the following best approximates your library's personnel plans over the next year? Broken out by type of library  Table 10 How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods? (in US$)  Table 10.1.1 How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods? (in US$) 2022-23 academic or fiscal year  Table 10.1.2 How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods? (in US$) 2022-23 academic or fiscal year Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 10.1.3 How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods? (in US$) 2022-23 academic or fiscal year Broken out by type of library  Table 10.2.1 How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year  Table 10.2.2 How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 10.2.3 How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year Broken out by type of library  If your library has made any substantial increase or decrease to budget allocations over the past year, please briefly summarize these changes.  Table 11.1 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your parent organization is?  Table 11.2 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your parent organization is? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 11.3 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your parent organization is? Broken out by type of library  Table 12.1 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library budget is?  Table 12.2 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library budget is? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 12.3 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library budget is? Broken out by type of library  Table 13 What was the library's total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: (Content is defined as books, journals, magazines, audio visual materials, newsletters, databases, directories and other such information vehicles)  Table 13.1.1 What was the library’s total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: 23-24 fiscal or academic year (in US$)  Table 13.1.2 What was the library’s total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: 23-24 fiscal or academic year (in US$) Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 13.1.3 What was the library’s total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: 23-24 fiscal or academic year (in US$) Broken out by type of library  Table 13.2.1 What was the library’s total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: 24-25 fiscal or academic year projected (in US$)  Table 13.2.2 What was the library’s total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: 24-25 fiscal or academic year projected (in US$) Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 13.2.3 What was the library’s total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: 24-25 fiscal or academic year projected (in US$) Broken out by type of library  Table 14.1 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library content and materials budget is?  Table 14.2 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library content and materials budget is? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 14.3 In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library content and materials budget is? Broken out by type of library  Table 15 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information?  Table 15.1.1 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Bloomberg  Table 15.1.2 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Bloomberg Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 15.1.3 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Bloomberg Broken out by type of library  Table 15.2.1 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Thomson/Reuters/West  Table 15.2.2 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Thomson/Reuters/West Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 15.2.3 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Thomson/Reuters/West Broken out by type of library  Table 15.3.1 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Reed/Elsevier/LexisNexis  Table 15.3.2 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Reed/Elsevier/LexisNexis Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 15.3.3 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Reed/Elsevier/LexisNexis Broken out by type of library  Table 15.4.1 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Wolters/Kluwers/CHH  Table 15.4.2 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Wolters/Kluwers/CHH Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 15.4.3 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? Wolters/Kluwers/CHH Broken out by type of library  Table 15.5.1 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? American Bar Association  Table 15.5.2 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? American Bar Association Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 15.5.3 Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information? American Bar Association Broken out by type of library  Table 16 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)  Table 16.1.1 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Blog Subscription Fees  Table 16.1.2 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Blog Subscription Fees Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 16.1.3 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Blog Subscription Fees Broken out by type of library  Table 16.2.1 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Audio Books  Table 16.2.2 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Audio Books Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 16.2.3 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Audio Books Broken out by type of library  Table 16.3.1 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Online seminars, webinars, other online conference or advice forums  Table 16.3.2 Online seminars, webinars, other online conference or advice forums Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 16.3.3 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Online seminars, webinars, other online conference or advice forums Broken out by type of library  Table 16.4.1 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Print or eBook content from Amazon  Table 16.4.2 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Print or eBook content from Amazon Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 16.4.3 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Print or eBook content from Amazon Broken out by type of library  Table 16.5.1 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Print or eBook purchases from other sources (excluding Amazon)  Table 16.5.2 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Print or eBook purchases from other sources (excluding Amazon) Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 16.5.3 How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources? (in US$)Print or eBook purchases from other sources (excluding Amazon) Broken out by type of library  Table 17 How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years? (in US$)  Table 17.1.1 How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year  Table 17.1.2 How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 17.1.3 How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year Broken out by type of library  Table 17.2.1 How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years? (in US$) 2024 -25 academic or fiscal year (anticipated)  Table 17.2.2 How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years? (in US$) 2024 -25 academic or fiscal year (anticipated) Broken out by number of FTE librarians Table 17.2.3 How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years? (in US$) 2024 -25 academic or fiscal year (anticipated) Broken out by type of library  What significant shifts in content spending has the library made in the past year or plans to make in the next year?  Table 18 In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Both answers should be percentage increases or decreases relative to the last year.  Table 18.1.1 In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Print Information  Table 18.1.2 In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Print Information Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 18.1.3 In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Print Information Broken out by type of library  Table 18.2.1 In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Digital/Electronic Information  Table 18.2.2 In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Digital/Electronic Information Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 18.2.3 In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Digital/Electronic Information Broken out by type of library  Table 19 What was your library's overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years? (in US$)  Table 19.1.1 What was your library’s overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years? (in US$) 2022-23 academic or fiscal year  Table 19.1.2 What was your library’s overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years? (in US$) 2022-23 academic or fiscal year Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 19.1.3 What was your library’s overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years? (in US$) 2022-23 academic or fiscal year Broken out by type of library  Table 19.2.1 What was your library’s overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year  Table 19.2.2 What was your library’s overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 19.2.3 What was your library’s overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years? (in US$) 2023-24 academic or fiscal year Broken out by type of library  Table 20.1 How important do you feel it is to acquaint your library's end users with newly emerging automated and robotic methods of conducting legal information searches?  Table 20.2 How important do you feel it is to acquaint your library's end users with newly emerging automated and robotic methods of conducting legal information searches? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 20.3 How important do you feel it is to acquaint your library's end users with newly emerging automated and robotic methods of conducting legal information searches? Broken out by type of library  Most Useful Artificial Intelligence Products  Table 21 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week?  Table 21.1.1 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? ChatGPT  Table 21.1.2 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? ChatGPT Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 21.1.3 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? ChatGPT Broken out by type of library  Table 21.2.1 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? Bard  Table 21.2.2 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? Bard Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 21.2.3 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? Bard Broken out by type of library  Table 21.3.1 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? AI-enabled features of Bing  Table 21.3.2 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? AI-enabled features of Bing Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 21.3.3 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? AI-enabled features of Bing Broken out by type of library  Table 21.4.1 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? Llama  Table 21.4.2 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? Llama Broken out by number of FTE librarians Table 21.4.3 How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week? Llama Broken out by type of library  Table 22 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work.  Table 22.1.1 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. ChatGPT  Table 22.1.2 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. ChatGPT Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 22.1.3 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. ChatGPT Broken out by type of library  Table 22.2.1 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. Bard  Table 22.2.2 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. Bard Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 22.2.3 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. Bard Broken out by type of library  Table 22.3.1 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. AI-enabled features of Bing  Table 22.3.2 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. AI-enabled features of Bing Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 22.3.3 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. AI-enabled features of Bing Broken out by type of library  Table 22.4.1 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. Llama  Table 22.4.2 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. Llama Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 22.4.3 Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work. Llama Broken out by type of library  Table 23.1 How much more productive, if at all, has the use of artificial intelligence made you?  Table 23.2 How much more productive, if at all, has the use of artificial intelligence made you? Broken out by number of FTE librarians  Table 23.3 How much more productive, if at all, has the use of artificial intelligence made you? Broken out by type of library

1. Please give us the following contact information   A. Name: B. Organization: C. Work Title: D. Country: E. Email Address:   2. Which choice best describes your library:   A. Law firm library B. University law library C. Courthouse library D. Non-Courthouse government agency, non-profit or international agency law library E. Private company law library F. Other (please specify)   3. Approximately how many librarians in FTE terms are employed by your library?   4. For professional employees of your organization (faculty at universities; lawyers at law firms, etc.) about what percentage on a typical day are working at home or otherwise remotely rather than in the office?   5. Currently, about what percentage of your personal work time is spent working from home or another remote location rather than in your office or traditional workplace?   6. Over the next year do you expect to spend more, less or about the same amount of time working from home?   A. Less B. About the Same C. More   7. Over the past three years, the physical space accounted for by your law library has increased, decreased or remained the same?   A. Decreased significantly, more than 10% B. Decreased, but less than 10% C. Remained approximately the same D. Increased modestly by less than 10% E. Increased significantly, by more than 10% 8. Over the next three years, do you expect that the physical space accounted for by your law library will increase, decrease or remain the same?   A. Will decrease significantly, by more than 10% B. Will decrease, but by less than 10% C. Will remain approximately the same D. Will Increase modestly by less than 10% E. Will increase significantly, by more than 10%   9. For each of the following periods what has been or will be the library's budget for professional development expenditures for the library staff, including training, courses, webinars, conferences and other costs associated with professional development?   A. Past Year B. Upcoming Year   10. What are your expectations for salaries for library employees over the next year?   A. Expecting us to spend less on salaries for the library staff regardless of inflation B. Expecting salaries to increase but not enough to keep up with inflation C. Expecting salary increases in line with inflation D. Expecting salary increases higher than the rate of inflation E. Not really sure   11. What do you expect will be the percentage nominal average change in the salaries of librarians working in your library for upcoming 2023-24 fiscal or academic year?   12. Which of the following best approximates your library's personnel plans over the next year?   A. We plan to add overall staff B. We will freeze all hiring except for replacements for staff who leave C. We will freeze all hiring D. We will reduce overall staff   13. How much did the library (or your parent organization for the library) approximately spend on compensation for all library employees, full and part time, in each of the following periods?   A. 2022-23 academic or fiscal year B. 2023-24 academic or fiscal year   14. If your library has made any substantial increase or decrease to budget allocations over the past year, please briefly summarize these changes.   15. In your view, the overall economic outlook for your parent organization is?   A. Excellent B. Good C. Fair D. Poor E. Very Bad   16. In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library budget is?   A. Excellent B. Good C. Fair D. Poor E. Very Bad   17. What was the library's total expenditures for content/materials in both print and electronic formats in each of the following years: (Content is defined as books, journals, magazines, audio visual materials, newsletters, databases, directories and other such information vehicles)   A. 23-24 fiscal or academic year B. 24-25 fiscal or academic year projected   18. In your view, the overall economic outlook for your library content and materials budget is?   A. Excellent B. Good C. Fair D. Poor E. Very Bad    19. Over the next year do you feel that your law library will spend more, spend less, spend about the same, or continue not to use the following suppliers of legal information?   Spend more Spend about the same Spend lessContinue not to use Bloomberg Thomson/Reuters/West Reed/Elsevier/LexisNexis Wolters/Kluwers/CHH American Bar Association   20. How much did the library spend annually in the past year on the following tools or information sources?   A. Blog Subscription Fees B. Audio Books C. Online seminars, webinars, other online conference or advice forums D. Print or eBook content from Amazon E. Print or eBook purchases from other sources (excluding Amazon)   21. How much did (will) the library spend for print reporters in the following single years   A. 2023-24 academic or fiscal year B. 2024 -25 academic or fiscal year (anticipated)   22. What significant shifts in content spending has the library made in the past year or plans to make in the next year?   A. Print Information B. Digital/Electronic Information   23. In nominal terms, not accounting for inflation, how much does your library or parent organization expect to increase or decrease spending on print and electronic information for the library over the next year? Both answers should be percentage increases or decreases relative to the last year.   A. 2022-23 academic or fiscal year B. 2023-24 academic or fiscal year   24. What was your library's overall materials budget for legal and other scholarly journals (print and digital content) for each of the following single years?   25. How important do you feel it is to acquaint your library's end users with newly emerging automated and robotic methods of conducting legal information searches?   A. Absolutely critical as it is the wave of the future B. Very important right now C. Important but not a big factor right now D. Useful perhaps but still more theoretical than actual E. Hyped a bit too much, not really a factor now F. Have not really heard about it and not asked about it at all   26. Which law artificial intelligence products have been, or you think will be, most useful for your organization? Why?   A. ChatGPT B. Bard C. AI-enabled features of D. Bing E. Llama   27. How much time, in total minutes, did you spend using each of the following tools in the past week?   28. Rank the following applications according to their value to you in your work.   A. ChatGPT B. Bard C. AI-enabled features of Bing D. Llama   29. How much more productive, if at all, has the use of artificial intelligence made you?   A. A great deal, more than 50% B. A lot, more than 30% C. A moderate amount, more than 10% D. A little, less than 10% E. None at all F. Actually, it has made me less productive. G. Unfamiliar with it