ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2012-2013

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48 · ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2012–2013
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MONTREAL cont.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars—Collections Expenditures: (7a) $29,321 (7b) $625,487
(7c) $145 (7) $654,953 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $803,329 (8b) $914,335 (8c) $0 (8) $1,717,664 (10) $504,147
Overall Expenditures: (7) $654,953 (8) $1,717,664 (9) $20,527 (6) $2,393,144 (12) $N/A. NOTE: Total
Salaries and Wages (Q8) EXCLUDES Fringe Benefits Expenditures (Q10).
NEW MEXICO
6, 7, 8 Figure based on data extrapolated from the AAHSL survey.
8.a, 8.b, 8.c Figure extrapolated from the AAHSL survey.
NEW YORK
All figures are as of 08/31/2013.
Library branches included: Waldmann Dental Library, Hospital for Joint Diseases Library, Bellevue
Hospital Library, and the Institute for Environmental Medicine Library.
Hurricane Sandy (10/29/12) had a significant impact on medical library staffing, facilities, and usage
statistics this fiscal year. Main medical library facility was destroyed by the storm and remains closed.
NYU hospitals and research operations were offline for 2–3 months after the storm. Library website was
down for 11 days following storm.
2 Volumes lost when Hurricane Sandy destroyed collection in Ehrman Medical Library.
7 Large price increase for UptoDate increased purchasing of e-book collections.
8 Clerical and student assistant position eliminations after Hurricane Sandy.
13 Staff reductions after Hurricane Sandy.
13.c All student and casual positions eliminated by 10/31/12, immediately after Hurricane Sandy.
14 Ramp-up of library liaison program created more opportunities for this.
15 Many sessions added for OB/GYN department.
17 Loss of collections and indefinite closure of main medical library after Hurricane Sandy.
18–20 Medical Library numbers included in University Library numbers.
22 Medical Library continued to expand its electronic holdings. Also, most medical center hospital and
research users were unable to return to work, or work at full capacity, for months after Hurricane Sandy,
which may also account for the decrease.
NORTH CAROLINA
4 Increase in e-book titles due to increased acquisition of titles and increased catalog access to titles that
may have not been counted previously.
7 Total library materials increase due to receipt of one-time year-end funding for additional materials
purchases.
7.a One-time resource purchases increase due to receipt of one-time year-end funding for additional
materials purchases.
11 Official designated percent of 22.04% +fixed health insurance of $5,192.
16 Decrease due to continued growth in use of LibGuides and other online help aids.
22 Increase in ILL titles requested from other libraries due to continuing effects of fee reduction and
improvements to online request process, as well as growth in interdisciplinary and team-science
research.
NORTHWESTERN
All figures are as of 08/31/2013.

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48 · ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2012–2013
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Footnote
MONTREAL cont.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars—Collections Expenditures: (7a) $29,321 (7b) $625,487
(7c) $145 (7) $654,953 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $803,329 (8b) $914,335 (8c) $0 (8) $1,717,664 (10) $504,147
Overall Expenditures: (7) $654,953 (8) $1,717,664 (9) $20,527 (6) $2,393,144 (12) $N/A. NOTE: Total
Salaries and Wages (Q8) EXCLUDES Fringe Benefits Expenditures (Q10).
NEW MEXICO
6, 7, 8 Figure based on data extrapolated from the AAHSL survey.
8.a, 8.b, 8.c Figure extrapolated from the AAHSL survey.
NEW YORK
All figures are as of 08/31/2013.
Library branches included: Waldmann Dental Library, Hospital for Joint Diseases Library, Bellevue
Hospital Library, and the Institute for Environmental Medicine Library.
Hurricane Sandy (10/29/12) had a significant impact on medical library staffing, facilities, and usage
statistics this fiscal year. Main medical library facility was destroyed by the storm and remains closed.
NYU hospitals and research operations were offline for 2–3 months after the storm. Library website was
down for 11 days following storm.
2 Volumes lost when Hurricane Sandy destroyed collection in Ehrman Medical Library.
7 Large price increase for UptoDate increased purchasing of e-book collections.
8 Clerical and student assistant position eliminations after Hurricane Sandy.
13 Staff reductions after Hurricane Sandy.
13.c All student and casual positions eliminated by 10/31/12, immediately after Hurricane Sandy.
14 Ramp-up of library liaison program created more opportunities for this.
15 Many sessions added for OB/GYN department.
17 Loss of collections and indefinite closure of main medical library after Hurricane Sandy.
18–20 Medical Library numbers included in University Library numbers.
22 Medical Library continued to expand its electronic holdings. Also, most medical center hospital and
research users were unable to return to work, or work at full capacity, for months after Hurricane Sandy,
which may also account for the decrease.
NORTH CAROLINA
4 Increase in e-book titles due to increased acquisition of titles and increased catalog access to titles that
may have not been counted previously.
7 Total library materials increase due to receipt of one-time year-end funding for additional materials
purchases.
7.a One-time resource purchases increase due to receipt of one-time year-end funding for additional
materials purchases.
11 Official designated percent of 22.04% +fixed health insurance of $5,192.
16 Decrease due to continued growth in use of LibGuides and other online help aids.
22 Increase in ILL titles requested from other libraries due to continuing effects of fee reduction and
improvements to online request process, as well as growth in interdisciplinary and team-science
research.
NORTHWESTERN
All figures are as of 08/31/2013.

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MIAMI
All figures are as of 05/31/2013.
8.b Figure is much less in 2013 because in 2012 the library had to pay out 6 severance packages due to
layoffs. Also, there were 6 fewer fulltime staff in 2013 than in 2012.
9 Other operating expenses rose significantly in 2013 because the library had to replace all staff and public
computers.
11 Included with Central Library.
13.b 6 staff layoffs at the end of FY2012.
18 Included with Richter.
MICHIGAN
7.a, 7.b Reallocation of one-time funds for new serial acquisitions and continuation of shift away from purchase
of monographs.
14 Increased demand for liaison librarian led information sessions.
15 Increased number of sessions led to larger total number of participants.
16 Reduced traffic and reference transactions due to impending renovations.
MINNESOTA
Library branches included: Bio-Medical Library including Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology
and Medicine, Veterinary Medical Library.
2 Reflects reduction of collection count by withdrawals and moves to shared campus storage.
4 E-books are located centrally and are not assigned to separate physical locations.
7, 7.b Certain Science Direct titles are now paid from a central Libraries budget and budget funds were
permanently transferred out of Health Sciences. There is no change in access/availability of these titles.
7.c Interlibrary loan content and records expenses previously paid by Health Sciences are now paid on a
central budget.
8.b Reflects staffing changes and vacant positions.
8.c Reflects changes in service delivery—student workers were consolidated on the St. Paul Campus to
include the Vet Med Library separate hours and expense no longer recorded for Vet Med.
13.c There was a structural change with the St. Paul students being clustered into one supervisory unit. Our
Vet Med Library students are now part of (supervised) by a larger St. Paul Libraries group, not included
in the HSL budget or FTE numbers. Also there was a reduction in the Tech Service student staffing and
Access &Information Services. Largest portion of reduction was Vet Med Library.
16 Decrease reflects demand reorganization of service points and service delivery
21 Change in reported numbers reflects move of separate Health Sciences lending service to central ILL
lending managed by Minitex, with separate locations not tracked. Total is reported in All Libraries.
MONTREAL
All figures are as of 04/30/2013.
2 For the first time this year, we used only system data.
4, 11, 12,
18–20
n/a
6, 7 During the year 2012–2013, UdeM Libraries had to cut $1.75 million in acquisitions, it was mainly
absorbed by the budget for books.

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NORTHWESTERN cont.
16 LibGuides and bibliographic instruction sessions may help with more self-help reference answers.
Vacancies existed in some staff positions, and the staff structure was undergoing reorganization.
17 Physical item circulations stats are down due to more online resources available.
18–20 Reported with Main Library figures.
OHIO STATE
Library branches included: Health Sciences Report includes data from: Health Sciences Library
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Library, University Hospitals East Library.
8 A variance from FY12 is that the service staff no longer report to HSL (thus 2 professional and 2 support
staff lines are gone) also no Medstar staff (2 professional positions).
10 Fringe benefits include: retirement, group life, disability, unemployment compensation, workers
compensation, group vision, group dental, medicare and group health plans, employee tuition,
graduate assistant fee waivers, and dependent tuition.
18, 19 Health Sciences reported additional data here for resources not already captured in the Main Library
report.
OKLAHOMA STATE
1, 2 Titles and volumes reduced due to extensive weeding project in FY13.
4 OSU-CHS maintains a limited number of e-books. This 11% increase reflects the acquisition of 45 new
e-book volumes.
6 Total expenditures increased due to a significant increase in Other operating expenditures.
7.c Contract binding costs are decreasing due to increased acquisition of electronic resources.
8.c Student wage reduction attributed to decrease in Federal Work Study Funds.
10 For tenure-track faculty, other professional staff, and staff this includes FICA, Workers Comp,
Unemployment Com, medical insurance, life insurance, retirement plan, Oklahoma Teachers
Retirement System Employer &Matching Fees, and a benefit administration fee.
13.a OSU-CHS has a small number of professional library staff. This 12.5% increase is the result of 1 new
hire.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
18 Due to systems in place unable to account for total usage.
ROCHESTER
Library branches included: Edward G. Miner Library and Basil G. Bibby Library.
1 These data included in response from main campus library.
2 Data reported are restricted to print-only materials. River Campus Libraries is reporting e-materials for
all UR libraries. A significant weeding project was completed in the reporting year.
4 These data included in response from main campus library.
7.a Includes an upgrade to Complete Access Medicine to achieve the best possible pricing, we paid for a
two-year subscription during the 2012–2013 fiscal year.

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