Law Library Benchmarks 2024-25
Regarding the importance of automated and robotic search methods (Table 20.1), the largest group (34.09%) views it as important but not a major factor currently. 18.18% see it as absolutely critical, and 20.45% as very important. There's variation by FTE librarians (Table 20.2), with larger libraries (5+ - 17 FTEs) placing greater importance on these methods (44.44% viewing it as absolutely critical).
This report presents detailed data from 44 law libraries in the USA and Canada with data broken out separately by size of library and for law firm libraries, university law libraries, courthouse libraries, and all other.
The study gives its readers detailed benchmarking data on current and future spending plans, with specific data sets for the overall budget, payroll, salaries, overall materials spending, online information, print information, reporters, legal and other scholarly journals, books (eBook and print) purchased from Amazon, books purchased from all other sources, subscription blogs, seminars and professional development and more. The study also looks at spending plans on particular suppliers of legal information.
- 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
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