Abstract：Perceptions toward Artificial Intelligence among Academic Library Employees and Alignment with the Diffusion of InnovationsAdopter Categories Artificial intelligenceAIhas emerged as a topic of interest among information technology innovatorsAs AI is refinedpractical uses of the technology to improve the transfer of information are increasingly investigateddevelopedand adopted in a v Consulting Service and Library Automation As AI technology continues to improveit is increasingly being researcheddevelopedand adopted in public environmentsincluding librariesto improve information transmissionGiven AIs relative novelty in this areathis provides an opportunity to study the emergence of public awareness of this innovation and its relationship with the adoption of emerging technologies as foreseen in RogersDiffusion of Innovations model