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Question Number Footnote
CORNELL, cont.
13 Decrease reflects a change from a manual to an online count that excludes any sound recordings that are not bar coded, and/
or that accompany other formats.
14 Starting with 2008-2009, motion picture counts will no longer be kept up to date reporting will be at the 2007-2008 level. Video
and DVD counts are now collected online vs. manually. The increase reflects in part the new online counting methodology.
16.d This year, this figure includes expenditures for integrating resources as well as shipping costs not included in 16a-c.
Previously, expenditures for items coded as integrating resources were reported in 16a. Per cataloging rules, more and more
items will be cataloged or recataloged (from other formats including monographs and serials) as integrating resources. These
expenditures will be for a mix of types of resources.
18.a Includes expenditures for librarians and exempt staff.
27.a Includes librarians and exempt staff.
30 Includes some instruction sessions for individuals.
32.a Extrapolated from 12 random sampling weeks.
33 Includes ILL lending and some staff transactions.
36 Borrow Direct counts are volume counts traditional ILL counts are title counts. Traditional ILL counts include some of the
requests submitted by CUL patrons for items that are available at CUL.
DUKE
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2008 revised to 475,553.
EMORY
1.a Volumes held August 31, 2008 revised to 245,073 to include 22,811 records for adding Making of Modern Law to online catalog
during 2008-2009.
FLORIDA
18-18.c Includes fringe benefits.
26 The charges for document delivery to law firms paid for our interlibrary loan expenses.
FLORIDA STATE
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2008 revised to 354,161.
5.a.i 2,287 titles are in Heinlein online.
16.d Figure includes fee for bibliographic utility --SOLINET.
24.b Estimated share of Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) spending.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
1.b We acquired a large collection of early foreign materials from the New York City Bar that accounted for the increase in
volumes added, and we withdrew less than in 2007-2008 because we conducted a weeding in 2007-2008.
5 In 2007-2008 we did not dedup the serial titles properly and the count was too high.
9 This year we counted the computer files (mostly CD-ROMs) from scratch instead of relying on previous counts and the figure
was larger.
10 We received several donations of archival materials.
13-14 We counted audio tapes and videotapes from scratch instead of relying on previous counts and the figure was larger.
16.a We reduced expenditures for monographs because we had to spend more on electronic resources.
16.b We failed to include electronic serials in previous surveys and did so this year.
18.b We had unfilled staff positions in 2007-2008 that were filled in 2008-2009.
18.c We employed more student workers in our computer help room.
20 We had several large payments for shipping books from the New York Bar Association.
21 Overall expenditures increased because of increased salaries and increased expenditures for databases.
23 We subscribed to more online services than in previous years.
24.a We made one-time purchases of several add-on packages from the vendor of our online catalog.
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