Highlights: ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010–2011 · 5
Highlights: ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010–2011
Out of 115 ARL university libraries, 63 responded to this survey.1
Health sciences libraries reported median values of 217,811 volumes held and 1,740 gross
volumes added. Also, these libraries employed the full-time equivalent of 1,977 staff members
in the fiscal year 2010–2011.
Responding libraries reported total expenditures of $240,675,218.2 As seen in the graph below,
materials expenditures made up the largest portion of the total, with almost 52% of aggregated
expenses falling under a materials-related category.
Health sciences libraries reported a total of $101,124,356 in electronic materials expenditures, or
a median of almost 89% of their total materials budgets. This includes a total of $97,504,002 in
electronic serials expenditures.
Expenditures in ARL Academic Health Sciences Libraries 2010–2011
1 Seventy-six ARL university libraries included data for a health sciences library in the 2010–2011 ARL Statistics. Among them, Alberta, British
Columbia, Brown, Calgary, Johns Hopkins, Laval, Louisville, McGill, Manitoba, Missouri, Ohio, Ottawa, SUNY-Buffalo, Toronto, and Wayne State
did not complete this survey. Pittsburgh and Texas A&M completed this survey for the first time in many years. Cornell and Indiana did not include
health sciences library data in the ARL Statistics, but did respond to this survey.
2 This figure includes Canadian universities, whose expenditures were converted to U.S. dollars at the rate of 1.0014 Can $=1 US$, the average
monthly noon exchange rate published in the Bank of Canada Review for the period July 2010–June 2011.
Contract Binding 0.17%
Other Operating 9.62%
Salaries &Wages 38.43%
Library Materials 51.78%
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