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35 PAGE FIVE – PUBLIC SERVICES AND LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS CIRCULATION 32. Number of initial circulations (excluding reserves) (32) ___________________ 33. Total circulations (initial and renewals, excluding reserves) (33) ___________________ INTERLIBRARY LOANS 34. Total number of filled requests provided to other libraries (34) ___________________ 35. Total number of filled requests received from other libraries or providers (35) ___________________ Ph.D. DEGREES AND FACULTY 36. Number of Ph.D.s awarded in FY2004-05 (36) ___________________ 37. Number of fields in which Ph.D.s can be awarded (37) ___________________ 38. Number of full-time instructional faculty in FY2004-05 (38) ___________________ ENROLLMENT – FALL 2004 (Line numbers refer to IPEDS survey form.) 39. Full-time students, undergraduate and graduate (39) ___________________ (Add line 8, columns 15 &16, and line 14, columns 15 &16.) 40. Part-time students, undergraduate and graduate (40) ___________________ (Add line 22, columns 15 &16, and line 28, columns 15 &16.) 41. Full-time graduate students (Line 14, columns 15 &16.) (41) ___________________ 42. Part-time graduate students (Line 28, columns 15 &16.) (42) ___________________ FOOTNOTES On the web form, you will be able to add footnotes to individual questions, as well as footnotes that apply to your entire institution. Please provide any information which would clarify the figures submitted, e.g., the inclusion of branch campus libraries or special projects which cause radical increases or decreases from the 2003-04 data. The form will not be able to provide your institution’s 2003-04 footnotes. Please make an effort to word your footnotes in a manner consistent with notes appearing in the published report, so that the ARL Office can interpret your footnotes correctly. Submit the completed questionnaire by December 20, 2005. For assistance, please e-mail Martha Kyrillidou (martha@arl.org) or Mark Young (stats-ra@arl.org) Tel. (202) 296-2296.
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37 ARL STATISTICS QUESTIONNAIRE, 2004-05 INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING THE QUESTIONNAIRE General Instructions Definitions of statistical categories can be found in NISO Z39.7-2004, Information Services and Use: Metrics &statistics for libraries and information providers--Data Dictionary (http://www.niso.org/emetrics/current/index.html). ARL has been modifying the interpretation of the standard definitions to address questions posed by by the library staff at various member institutions that complete the survey and with feedback from the ARL Statistics and Assessment Committee (http://www.arl.org/stats/program/meeting.html). Please do not use decimals. All figures should be rounded to the nearest whole number. Please respond to every question. If an exact figure cannot be provided, use NA/UA to indicate that the figure is either unavailable or not applicable. If the appropriate answer is zero or none, use 0. Although the form allows for data to be entered from both main and branch campuses, an effort should be made to report figures for the main campus only. (The U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) defines a branch institution as “a campus or site of an educational institution that is not temporary, is located in a community beyond a reasonable commuting distance from its parent institution, and offers organized programs of study, not just courses.”) If figures for libraries at branch campuses are reported, please specify which branch libraries are included and which ones are excluded in the notes below. A branch library is defined as an auxiliary library service outlet with quarters separate from the central library of an institution, which has a basic collection of books and other materials, a regular staffing level, and an established schedule. A branch library is administered either by the central library or (as in the case of some law and medical libraries) through the administrative structure of other units within the university. Departmental study/reading rooms are not included. The questionnaire assumes a fiscal year ending June 30, 2005. If your fiscal year is different, please indicate this in the notes below by adjusting the reporting period. Footnotes. Explanatory footnotes will be included with the published statistics. Provide any notes you may have in the footnotes area at the end of the survey. Reporting libraries are urged to record there any information that would clarify the figures submitted in that line, e.g., the inclusion and exclusion of branch campus libraries. Please make an effort to word your footnotes in a manner consistent with notes appearing in the published report, so that the ARL Office can interpret your footnotes correctly. Specific Instructions Question 1. Volumes in Library. Use the ANSI/NISO Z39.7-2004 definition for volume as follows: a single physical unit of any printed, typewritten, handwritten, mimeographed, or processed work, distinguished from other units by a separate binding, encasement, portfolio, or other clear distinction, which has been cataloged, classified, and made ready for use, and which is typically the unit used to charge circulation transactions. Either a serial volume is bound, or it comprises the serial issues that would be bound together if the library bound all serials. Include duplicates and bound volumes of periodicals. For purposes of this questionnaire, unclassified bound serials arranged in alphabetical order are considered classified. Exclude microforms, maps, nonprint materials, and uncataloged items. If any of these items cannot be excluded, please provide an explanatory footnote