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43 Question 33, report total circulation for the fiscal year including initial transactions reported on line 32 and renewal transactions. Exclude reserve circulations these are no longer reported. Questions 34-35. Interlibrary Loans. Report the number of requests for material (both returnables and non- returnables) provided to other libraries on line 34 and the number of filled requests received from other libraries or providers on line 35. On both lines, include originals, photocopies, and materials sent by telefacsimile or other forms of electronic transmission. Include patron-initiated transactions. Exclude requests for materials locally owned and available on the shelves or electronically. Do not include transactions between libraries covered by this questionnaire. Questions 36. Ph.D. Degrees. Report the number awarded during the 2004-05 fiscal year. Please note that only the number of Ph.D. degrees are to be counted. Statistics on all other advanced degrees (e.g., D.Ed., D.P.A., M.D., J.D.) should not be reported in this survey. If you are unable to provide a figure for Ph.D.s only, please add a footnote. Question 37. Ph.D. Fields. For the purposes of this report, Ph.D. fields are defined as the specific discipline specialties enumerated in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) “Completions” Survey. Although the IPEDS form requests figures for all doctoral degrees, only fields in which Ph.D.s are awarded should be reported on the ARL questionnaire. Any exceptions should be footnoted. Question 38. Instructional Faculty. Instructional faculty are defined by the U.S. Dept. of Education as members of the instruction/research staff who are employed full-time as defined by the institution, including faculty with released time for research and faculty on sabbatical leave. Full-time counts generally exclude faculty who are employed to teach fewer than two semesters, three quarters, two trimesters, or two four-month sessions replacements for faculty on sabbatical leave or leave without pay faculty for preclinical and clinical medicine faculty who are donating their services faculty who are members of military organizations and paid on a different pay scale from civilian employees academic officers, whose primary duties are administrative and graduate students who assist in the instruction of courses. Please be sure the number reported, and the basis for counting, are consistent with those for 2003-04 (unless in previous years faculty were counted who should have been excluded according to the above definition). Please footnote any discrepancies. Questions 39-42. Enrollment. U.S. libraries should use the Fall 2004 enrollment figures reported to the Department of Education on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey. Please check these figures against the enrollment figures reported to ARL last year to ensure consistency and accuracy. Note: In the past, the number of part-time students reported was FTE the number now reported to IPEDS is a head count of part- time students. Canadian libraries should note that the category “graduate students” as reported here includes all post-baccalaureate students. FOOTNOTES Please consult the printed copy of the ARL Statistics 2003-04 for a copy of last year’s footnotes. A pdf version is available at: http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/. Explanatory footnotes will be included with the published statistics. Reporting libraries are urged to record in the footnote section any information that would clarify the figures submitted, e.g., the inclusion and exclusion of branch campus libraries (see the "General Instructions" for definition 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. 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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45 FOOTNOTES TO THE ARL ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARY STATISTICS, 2004-05 Footnotes may also include errata and corrections to data not previously reported from prior years. Numbers in parentheses refer to columns in Library Data Tables and to Questionnaire numbers. QUESTION NUMBER NOTES ALABAMA All figures are as of September 30, 2005. 15c The library does not separate expenditures for microforms and audiovisual materials these costs are included with monographs expenditures. 19 Includes bibliographic utilities, memberships, and literature searching. ALBERTA All figures are as of March 31, 2005. 1, 6 As there is no way to include the large amount of material sent to the remote storage facility, this would result in an inaccurate count of Law Library material. 2 Precise number of monographs purchased from 2000‐01 onward is unavailable all monographs purchased are included in gross volumes added (1bi). 12 This is a title count. 2003‐04 figure was inaccurate. 15‐25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15a) $324,460 (15b) $1,006,164 (15c) UA/NA (15d) UA/NA (15) $1,330,624 (16) $7,125 (17a) $205,790 (17b) $446,525 (17c) $16,681 (17) $668,996 (19) UA/NA (20) $2,006,745 (21) UA/NA (22) $286,120 (23a) UA/NA (23b) UA/NA (24) UA/NA (25) UA/NA. 32 Initial circulations cannot be separated from renewals. 34 Due to use of Relais for collecting statistics, all requests funnel through one search queue which makes it difficult to provide breakdown for the Law Library. ARIZONA STATE Volumes held June 30, 2004 revised to 267,737. BRIGHAM YOUNG All figures reflect the status of collections and expenditures as of December 31, 2004. 8 Figure reflects the Hunter Law Library only. The Lee Library no longer tracks this figure. CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 15d Data are included in monograph expenditures (15a). CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 1b Increase due to fewer volumes withdrawn. 15a Increase due to an increase in number of volumes purchased, as well as in cost per volume. 29 Number of presentations for 2004‐05 increased. 34 Decrease due to RLG ILL online system malfunctions requests were not received for several weeks. CHICAGO 29 Increase was the result of changing to small‐group presentations. 34, 35 Figures represent items, not requests. CINCINNATI 4 Figure is lower than in 2003‐04, as a high number of OhioLINK journals were credited to the law library in 2003‐04. With the current submission model, it is not possible to credit the law library with its access to