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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Highlights: ARL Academic Law Library Statistics, 2004-05.......................................5
ARL Law Library Data Tables, 2004-05 .........................................................................7
Collections..............................................................................................................8
Expenditures........................................................................................................12
Expenditures for Electronic Resources ............................................................16
Personnel and Public Services...........................................................................20
Rank Order Table 1: Volumes in Library ........................................................24
Rank Order Table 2: Volumes Added (Gross)................................................25
Rank Order Table 3: Current Serials ................................................................26
Rank Order Table 4: Total Expenditures .........................................................27
Rank Order Table 5: Total Staff.........................................................................28
Rank Order Table 6: Total Electronic Resources ............................................29
ARL Academic Law Library Statistics
Questionnaire and Instructions, 2004-05 .....................................................................31
Footnotes to the ARL Academic Law Library Statistics, 2004-05 ............................45
Appendix: ARL Member Libraries as of June 1, 2006................................................50

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HIGHLIGHTS
ARL ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARY STATISTICS, 2004-05
• Out of 113 ARL university libraries, 77 responded to this survey.1
• Law libraries reported median values of 313,574 volumes held and 7,435
volumes added. Also, these libraries employed the full-time equivalent of
2,259 staff members in the fiscal year 2004-05.
• Responding libraries reported total expenditures of $200,223,137.2 As seen in
the graph below, materials expenditures made up the largest portion of the
total, with 46.4% of aggregated expenses falling under a materials-related
category.
• Law libraries reported a total of $11,858,683 on electronic materials, or a
median of 13.69% of their total materials budgets. This includes a total of
$10,235,586 on electronic serials.
Expenditures in ARL Law Libraries, 2004-05
Contract Binding
0.82%
Total Library Materials
46.40%
Total Salaries &Wages
44.60%
Other Operating Expend.
8.18%
1 78 ARL university libraries included data for a Law library in the 2004-05 ARL Statistics among them, British Columbia, Laval, and
Manitoba did not complete this survey. Colorado and Hawaii completed this survey but did not include a Law library on the ARL
Statistics. Rutgers has two administratively independent Law libraries, which respond separately to this survey they are aggregated
together in the ARL Statistics.
2 This figure includes Canadian universities, whose expenditures were converted to U.S. dollars at the rate of 1.24971 Can$ =1 US$,
the average monthly noon exchange rate published in the Bank of Canada Review for the period July 2004-June 2005.