ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2006–2007

Kyrillidou, Martha; Bland, Les

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MINNESOTA
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 550,910. Adjusted for transfer of volumes to MLAC shared storage facility.
4a.i- 4b.ii Not possible to separate unique serial titles by branch library.
11 Breakdown by media not available for all libraries. Total A/V media holdings for Health Sciences Libraries is 2,832
consisting of approximately 53 graphic, 66 audio, 2,377 video.
25 Decrease in expenditure is due to participation in reciprocal ILL through EFTS consortium.
28-42 Not reported for branch libraries to avoid misleading sum in main ARL statistics.
MONTREAL
15-25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15) $2,164,905 (15a) $219,652 (15b) $1,945,253 (15c) $0 (15d) $0
(16) $14,789 (17) $1,919,556 (17a) $780,604 (17b) $1,138,952 (17c) $0 (19) $22,444 (20) $4,121,694 (21) UA/NA (22)
$1,209,869 (23a) UA/NA (23b) UA/NA (24) UA/NA (25) UA/NA.
NEW YORK
All figures are as of 08/31/2007.
The Medical and Dental Libraries are submitting a consolidated report of their statistics this year instead of separately as
in past years.
1a Includes 8,729 e‑books.
4 The total number of serials decreased dramatically as part of the de‑duping process for the new counting methodology.
All electronic serials will only be reported through the Division of Libraries. The actual number of serial titles available
from the Medical and Dental Libraries is 20,831.
4a.i Electronic serials totals for NYU are only being counted in the main Division of Libraries total. The actual number of
electronic serials purchased available at the Medical and Dental Libraries is 9,519.
4b.i Electronic serials totals for NYU are only being counted in the main Division of Libraries total. The actual number of free
electronic serials at the Medical and Dental Libraries is 11,062.
NORTH CAROLINA
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 339,154. Added 86 e‑books not previously counted, plus 5,661 volumes to reflect
more accurate counts obtained through new ILS.
26 Professional staff =31.03 Support staff =30.48 Student assistants =8.49 Total =70 FTE. Personnel includes 1.93 FTE for
special projects and grants.
28 Service hours =109.
NORTHWESTERN
All figures are as of 08/31/2007.
OHIO STATE
4a.i Library purchases or shares in the purchase of 3,543 electronic serials.
4b.i All Ohio State libraries have access to 3,285 cataloged free electronic serials.
23b Inseparable from total university libraries figure of $1,142,832.
OKLAHOMA STATE
18 Fringe benefits are included.
39 There are 351 medical students using the professional classification in IPEDS. This number reported in lieu of the breakout
asked for in (39‑42).
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
Includes the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center library, and the College of Medicine Harrell Library (Hershey, PA).
PITTSBURGH
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 337,597.
QUEEN’S
All figures are as of 04/30/2007.
Includes the Bracken Health Sciences Library.
(36‑37) and (39‑42) are as of November 2006, (38) as at October 2006. (4), (23) and (24) are statistics included in Main
Library questionnaire (see ARL Statistics). The numbers cannot be broken out.
15-25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15) $1,759,554 (15a) $174,790 (15b) $1,581,828 (15c) $2,936 (15d) UA/NA
(16) $7,567 (17) $809,261 (17a) $328,107 (17b) $441,302 (17c) $39,852 (19) $198,409 (20) $2,774,791 (21) UA/NA (22)
$1,393,376 (23a) UA/NA (23b) UA/NA (24) UA/NA (25) UA/NA.
ROCHESTER
4 This figure is the total of print‑only journals (156) PLUS the e‑journals included in the Health Sciences and Life Sciences
categories in SFX.
8 Includes non‑local computer files purchased by Miner.
17, 20 Due to a re-organizational initiative, medical‑center‑wide Web support no longer falls under the health sciences library’s
organizational structure 4.5 FTE were transferred.
21 AMA Journal backfiles.

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MINNESOTA
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 550,910. Adjusted for transfer of volumes to MLAC shared storage facility.
4a.i- 4b.ii Not possible to separate unique serial titles by branch library.
11 Breakdown by media not available for all libraries. Total A/V media holdings for Health Sciences Libraries is 2,832
consisting of approximately 53 graphic, 66 audio, 2,377 video.
25 Decrease in expenditure is due to participation in reciprocal ILL through EFTS consortium.
28-42 Not reported for branch libraries to avoid misleading sum in main ARL statistics.
MONTREAL
15-25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15) $2,164,905 (15a) $219,652 (15b) $1,945,253 (15c) $0 (15d) $0
(16) $14,789 (17) $1,919,556 (17a) $780,604 (17b) $1,138,952 (17c) $0 (19) $22,444 (20) $4,121,694 (21) UA/NA (22)
$1,209,869 (23a) UA/NA (23b) UA/NA (24) UA/NA (25) UA/NA.
NEW YORK
All figures are as of 08/31/2007.
The Medical and Dental Libraries are submitting a consolidated report of their statistics this year instead of separately as
in past years.
1a Includes 8,729 e‑books.
4 The total number of serials decreased dramatically as part of the de‑duping process for the new counting methodology.
All electronic serials will only be reported through the Division of Libraries. The actual number of serial titles available
from the Medical and Dental Libraries is 20,831.
4a.i Electronic serials totals for NYU are only being counted in the main Division of Libraries total. The actual number of
electronic serials purchased available at the Medical and Dental Libraries is 9,519.
4b.i Electronic serials totals for NYU are only being counted in the main Division of Libraries total. The actual number of free
electronic serials at the Medical and Dental Libraries is 11,062.
NORTH CAROLINA
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 339,154. Added 86 e‑books not previously counted, plus 5,661 volumes to reflect
more accurate counts obtained through new ILS.
26 Professional staff =31.03 Support staff =30.48 Student assistants =8.49 Total =70 FTE. Personnel includes 1.93 FTE for
special projects and grants.
28 Service hours =109.
NORTHWESTERN
All figures are as of 08/31/2007.
OHIO STATE
4a.i Library purchases or shares in the purchase of 3,543 electronic serials.
4b.i All Ohio State libraries have access to 3,285 cataloged free electronic serials.
23b Inseparable from total university libraries figure of $1,142,832.
OKLAHOMA STATE
18 Fringe benefits are included.
39 There are 351 medical students using the professional classification in IPEDS. This number reported in lieu of the breakout
asked for in (39‑42).
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
Includes the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center library, and the College of Medicine Harrell Library (Hershey, PA).
PITTSBURGH
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 337,597.
QUEEN’S
All figures are as of 04/30/2007.
Includes the Bracken Health Sciences Library.
(36‑37) and (39‑42) are as of November 2006, (38) as at October 2006. (4), (23) and (24) are statistics included in Main
Library questionnaire (see ARL Statistics). The numbers cannot be broken out.
15-25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15) $1,759,554 (15a) $174,790 (15b) $1,581,828 (15c) $2,936 (15d) UA/NA
(16) $7,567 (17) $809,261 (17a) $328,107 (17b) $441,302 (17c) $39,852 (19) $198,409 (20) $2,774,791 (21) UA/NA (22)
$1,393,376 (23a) UA/NA (23b) UA/NA (24) UA/NA (25) UA/NA.
ROCHESTER
4 This figure is the total of print‑only journals (156) PLUS the e‑journals included in the Health Sciences and Life Sciences
categories in SFX.
8 Includes non‑local computer files purchased by Miner.
17, 20 Due to a re-organizational initiative, medical‑center‑wide Web support no longer falls under the health sciences library’s
organizational structure 4.5 FTE were transferred.
21 AMA Journal backfiles.

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36-42 Included in Rush Rhees Library statistics.
SASKATCHEWAN
All figures are as of 04/30/2007.
15-25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15) $2,827,588 (15a) $209,649 (15b) $2,617,939 (15c) UA/NA (15d) UA/
NA (16) $10,813 (17) $629,932 (17a) $330,188 (17b) $241,570 (17c) $58,174 (19) UA/NA (20) $3,468,333 (21) UA/NA
(22) UA/NA (23a) UA/NA (23b) UA/NA (24) UA/NA (25) UA/NA.
15b Increase in Provincial grants received.
15c Included in (16).
20 Increase in Provincial grants received.
31 Decrease due to change in method of statistics collection in December 2006.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 213,968. Owned/leased e-Books held, including from the following packages:
AccessMedicine, Books@Ovid, Marcel Dekker, PsychiatryOnline, R2 Library, Stat!Ref, Thieme Electronic Book Library
(TEBL), Wiley Current Protocols, Wiley Reference Works plus 3 individual paid books.
2 Owned/leased e-Books added from the following packages: AccessMedicine, Books@Ovid, PsychiatryOnline, R2 Library,
Stat!Ref, Thieme Electronic Book Library (TEBL), Wiley Current Protocols plus 1 individual paid book. Count is from
acquisitions, and is a bibliographic (title) count.
3 Our print volume count is physical, our electronic count is bibliographic.
15a This includes some expenditures on electronic monographs that are purchased under subscription.
21 One‑time electronic resource purchases. We do not distinguish between one‑time and ongoing purchases. We distinguish
between purchases of electronic serials, electronic books, educational software, and databases. We can provide an overall
amount covering all electronic resource purchases.
SUNY-BUFFALO
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 355,683.
4a.i, 4b.i Electronic serials are reported on the Main Library summary for the entire Library System.
24 Library totals are reported on the Main Library summary. See institutional‑level data reported in ARL Statistics.
32-33 Numbers reported for circulation are more accurate than in past years due to implementation to a new online system.
36-42 This question is answered with institutional data on the main library page. See institutional‑level data reported in ARL
Statistics.
SUNY-STONY BROOK
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 272,590.
TENNESSEE
Includes the Health Sciences libraries, which consists of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, Memphis the
Preston Medical Library and the Knoxville part of College of Medicine in Memphis.
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 218,244.
4a Medical Titles Purchased: Electronic 651 [of 3,987] (4a.i), Print 235 [of 359] (4a.ii), Total 886 [of 4,346] (4a).
22 Allocation of dollars from print to online occurred when Health Sciences converted to print and print and online titles to
online only. Also improved reporting the online purchases through our serials vendor. In 2006-07 these were all reported
as print expenditures regardless of format.
28 UT Health Sciences Library is open 136 hours per week but occurrence of hours is within that of Main.
36-41 Institutional‑level data reported in ARL Statistics.
TEXAS TECH
All figures are as of 08/31/2007.
Includes Harrington Library TTUHSC/Amarillo Montes‑Gallo Library of the Health Sciences TTUHSC/El Paso Library
of the Health Sciences TTUHSC/Odessa Preston Smith HSC Library.
TULANE
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 157,409.
VANDERBILT
17c This library has substantially reduced student hours because electronic journal use has cut down on the need for shelving.
In addition, this is the first year this library is reporting federal funds for work study students.
VIRGINIA
Includes the Health Sciences library.
Excludes: Law, Darden Graduate Business, Alderman, Astronomy, Biology/Psychology, Chemistry, Clemons
Undergraduate, Education, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts, Math, Music, Physics, Brown Science &Engineering and Small
Special Collections libraries.
(4), (28), and (36‑42) are reported for the University Library only but apply to all of the UVa libraries.

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Number
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HAWAII
Excludes the Hamilton Library, School of Law Library, and the Sinclair Library.
1 Includes 4,189 e‑books purchased via STAT!Ref, OvidBooks, MDConsult, ebrary, and PsycBOOKS.
25 Nearly all of the interlibrary loans for Health Sciences Library users are processed by the main campus library, Hamilton
Library.
HOWARD
4b New inventory of electronic serials not purchased.
ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
Includes: Library of the Health Sciences (LHS) ‑ Chicago, LHS ‑ Peoria, LHS ‑ Rockford, LHS‑ Urbana.
Excludes: Richard J. Daley Library, Science Library.
34-35 Figures unavailable for all institutions with which UIC has reciprocal borrowing privileges. I‑Share statistics for health
sciences branches not included.
INDIANA
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 275,841.
IOWA
1, 2 Moved from physical to bibliographic counting.
1a Volumes held June 30, 2006 revised to 296,600.
4 Any shared titles between Law and Main or Health Sciences are being counted with Law.
12-13 Moved from physical to bibliographic counting.
17a Including programming staff that support the Libraries but not directly from Libraries’ budget.
19 Including equipment costs that support the Libraries but not directly from Libraries’ budget.
24 Including hard/software costs that support the Libraries but not directly from Libraries’ budget.
26b Fewer graduate assistants due to grants ending number of merit positions eliminated includes 3 FTE programmers who
support the Libraries but not directly from Libraries’ budget.
26c Using fewer student employees.
33 Removed Main/Branch/Health Sciences intra‑library circulation numbers.
35 Decrease due to new software, ILLiad, which counts transactions differently than Clio software.
KANSAS
1b.i Some systematic weeding of collections was performed in 2006-07, so withdrawal figure went up.
2 More resources were committed to monographic acquisitions in 2006-07.
4a, 4b Change between 2005-06 and 2006-07 reflects new methodology for reporting this information.
15b Supplementary funding from administration was received in 2006-07 which allowed greater expenditures on current
serials.
17a Removed two positions in 2006-07 which, while considered professional staff, were not actually librarians.
17c Cut student hours to reflect a decrease in the need for their services in 2006-07.
26a Added one grant funded position in 2006-07.
32-33 Used a different data source in 2006-07 to obtain this information.
LOUISIANA STATE
17c, 26c Could not find any to hire this year.
26a One retirement this year.
MCMASTER
All figures are as of 04/30/2007.
15-25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15) $1,511,670 (15a) $178,909 (15b) $1,279,348 (15c) $0 (15d) $53,413
(16) $13,957 (17) $1,361,511 (17a) $566,021 (17b) $749,797 (17c) $45,693 (19) $158,766 (20) $3,045,904 (21) $352,732 (22)
$1,105,525 (23a) $25,000 (23b) $0 (24) $40,000 (25) $56,000.
MIAMI
8 Medical library computer files are included in (13), audiovisual materials.
13 All audiovisual materials (10 ‑ 13) and computer files (8) are reported in (13) for medical library.
17a Excludes medical library director’s salary.
31a Medical library educational transactions are sampled and non‑educational non‑directional transactions are counted.
36-42 Institutional‑level data reported in ARL Statistics.
MICHIGAN
Included are the Taubman Medical Library, the Dentistry Library and the Public Health Library and Informatics, all of the
Ann Arbor campus.

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